Posted on 12/12/2014 1:06:24 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Consider this warning that recently greeted viewers of ABC's political soap opera, Scandal:
"The following drama contains adult content. Viewer discretion is advised."
That label was slapped on the episode because of scenes like the moment when trained torturer Huck prepared to ply his trade on colleague (and soon-to-be girlfriend) Quinn Perkins.
"Normally, I'd start with the drill or a scalpel," he told Perkins, who was bound and gagged, looking on in terror. "Peeling off the skin can be beautiful. Or removing fingers, toes; I like the feeling of a toe being separated from a foot. ... I'm so sorry, because I'm going to enjoy this."
Scenes like that have become a regular part of some popular TV shows and movies. People may disagree in real life, but in Hollywood, torture works.
From Kiefer Sutherland as hard-nosed government agent Jack Bauer on Fox's 24, growling this threat to a bad guy: "You probably don't think that I can force this towel down your throat. Trust me, I can."
(Excerpt) Read more at m.nwpr.org ...
The folks that ran the USAF SERE school told me torture works.
Since it isn’t torture, fine.
The interrogation techniques they use are not torture. People are watering down the meaning of torture trying to associate it with interrogation.
Torture works in the real world.
Hmmm, I’m betting that if you told 100 journalists the same secret, that I could get 99 of them to tell me that secret inside of an hour.
When the Gestapo caught someone, the Underground knew that they had only a few hours to save the people the captured person knew.
Of course it works.
attend SERE before commenting
Correct. We have gotten thousands of pages of useable intel using EITs.
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The media, movies and television doesn’t show torture - it shows psychopathic sadism. There IS a difference.
I can testify with certainty that it does.
What if I really don’t care if it works or niot?
Who told you that?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2340
I don’t know... seeing Daniel Craig as James Bond sitting in that bottomless chair... It sure didn’t work on him.
(I still cringe when I watch that)
Torture works.
Now as to whether it works to give you useful information or the guy just tells you what you want to hear, there can be some discussion on that.
But torture works.
Nobody is encouraging you to care.
Right-o.
Everyone can be broken because there comes a point where you just want it to end.
As a teen I screwed up and stayed out all night. My dad applied the lightest bit of “torture” on me when morning came. I had yet to sleep and he didn’t want staying up all night to be a habit that ruined my chores or staying in bed till the afternoon. So he made me stay up. If I sat or laid down he tossed a shot of water in my face or grabbed me by the shoulder and made me stand on my feet. He made sure I stayed up and walking around till I begged him to just let me sleep.
All it was was sleep deprivation and I was promising him I’d never stay out or up later than midnight.
Torture works just fine. The liberals just want the world to think we did not succeed.. Communists always want to rewrite the history books to make it so they are great and everyone else sucks.
There is torture and there is advanced ways of interrogation. Sleep deprivation, water boarding, food manipulation are not forms of torture. They are not comfortable but not torture. For torture look to the Japs in WWII, Mafia, North Koreans etc. They know torture. And there is Islam...
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