If he or she is a terrorist they probably will not give you the right answer either way.  Let's say they tell you it's under a bridge in NY.  60 minutes later...Kaboom.  It was in LA.  The torturing stopped and the interrogation resulted in well...nothing.  It surprises me that so many of you out there are sheeplishly believing all the crap the government churns out.

Posted By JasonY on 03/10/2008 10:31 AM

Posted By missPolitick on 03/10/2008 10:26 AM
If terrorists WEREN'T cowards they would torture THEMSELVES to gain even more riches in the afterlife. I mean anyone could blow themselves up. It's quick and painless. Wusses.

But they have been indoctrinated since they were little kids to do this kind of stuff.......

I know, I know, I was just making fun of them.

This is basically the same scenario Justice Scalia used recently to justify torture and suggest there was nothing in the constitution against it. Actually he was a little more ambiguous, but the same basic idea.  I’m going to side with the others and say you are living in a “24” fantasy world where Jack Bauer beats the bomb location out of the bad guy just in time to save us all. Obviously the terrorists who are willing to die for their cause are not going to revel the location of the bomb just because you torture them.

The real danger is not what terrorists will do if the US condones and uses torture, the danger is other nations deciding torture is ok because the US does it. This could put our soldiers at risk as well as our allies. It’s also hard to take the moral high road with the rest of the world if we are going to use the same tactics the evil enemy does. Didn’t the US consider waterboarding a war crime in WWII? Oh ya, we live in different times now, I forgot.

There is a lot of information out there, even from government sources, that indicate torture is not an effective technique to get reliable information. I know the Bush administration has said these techniques have lead to useful info, but how do we know that they could not have got that info without torture?

Back to the original question, if I was in a room with the “bad guy” tied up, I guess I would beat the crap out of him trying to get the info, but at this point I will admit it has nothing to do with logic and reason, it’s all animal instinct. So please US government, if you are going to torture people, can you please keep it secret, and not try to justify it as somehow being morally acceptable, just deny that you do it.

Thanks,

Higgs

There are no Terrorists in the USA, and has never been.....

Ooops Im sorry yes there are it is called the GOVERNMENT

They are the real Terrorists, they are getting us as Americans so mad that we are going to go out and start Taking out those Corrupt Politicians....but of course then we are called the Terrorists...

There is no War on Terror....there is War on the American People and War on the Constitution, as they want to rip it apart for the NEW WORLD ORDER and the Communist Manifesto