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Even If Torture Doesn't Work In The Real World, TV Has Us Convinced It Does
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| 12-12-2014
| Eric Deggans
Posted on 12/12/2014 1:06:24 PM PST by Citizen Zed
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I have to confess that the towel quote was from the only 5 minutes I watched of 24. I didn't care for thoughts like that in my head and chose not to watch. That said, torture works much better in the real world than it does on TV.
To: Citizen Zed
Torture may not work, but enhanced interrogation methods darn sure do...
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:08:35 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: Citizen Zed
The folks that ran the USAF SERE school told me torture works.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:09:44 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Citizen Zed
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.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:12:24 PM PST
by
vpintheak
(Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
To: Citizen Zed
Torture works in the real world.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:15:32 PM PST
by
Usagi_yo
(Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
To: Citizen Zed
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.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:18:15 PM PST
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: Citizen Zed
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:22:41 PM PST
by
bkepley
To: Citizen Zed
attend SERE before commenting
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:28:31 PM PST
by
zzwhale
To: gov_bean_ counter
Correct. We have gotten thousands of pages of useable intel using EITs.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:30:36 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
To: Hugh the Scot; yldstrk
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:33:19 PM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: Citizen Zed
The media, movies and television doesn’t show torture - it shows psychopathic sadism. There IS a difference.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:38:45 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: DuncanWaring
Only the stupid and naive believe torture does not work.
I can testify with certainty that it does.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:40:37 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
What if I really don’t care if it works or niot?
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:42:40 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: vpintheak
"The interrogation techniques they use are not torture"
Who told you that?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2340
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:44:49 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Citizen Zed
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)
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:47:13 PM PST
by
envisio
(Its on like Donkey Kong!)
To: Citizen Zed
People tend to discard things that do not work.
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.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:48:24 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: USNBandit
"What if I really dont care if it works or niot?"
Nobody is encouraging you to care.
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posted on
12/12/2014 1:55:03 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
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.
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posted on
12/12/2014 2:00:29 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: Citizen Zed
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.
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posted on
12/12/2014 2:01:39 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
To: Citizen Zed
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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posted on
12/12/2014 2:05:38 PM PST
by
mc5cents
("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
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