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Monday, October 23, 2006
2:23:00 AM EDT
Feeling Anxious
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Feeling Anxious
waterboarding: torture
My homeschooling family has been following the recent attempts of the Bush Administration's decision to try to sneak around the Geneva Convention with horror. Today we watched this video online:
about a torture technique called waterboarding. The professional interrogator (dressed in black) scared the shit out of me just watching him calmly talk about coercive interrogations.
I cried. I cannot sleep.
Even if the technique does no real physical damage (as they say, it stops well short of causing kidney damage) there is not doubt that a person who endures this involuntarily will probably have psychological problems for the rest of their life. How do I know this? Twenty-nine years after surviving a very brutal rape where two young men toyed with me like a cat with a mouse, I am still able to recall in a heartbeat the way they smelled, the taste of a knife in my mouth, the way at one point I decided I wanted to die rather than live one more instant enduring this terror. Terror is worse than pain, believe me. (I gave birth naturally without drugs each time, without crying out or even moaning. I am not weak about physical pain.)
If Americans want to be able to claim the moral high ground, we must not treat other human beings like this. Period. And if some of us hope to claim to be Christian, there is no doubt that Christ would not condone treating another living soul like this, ever, under any circumstances. We are to love our enemies, love those who wronged us.
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I wasn't agreeing with physical torture or even mental torture, but some psychological techniques might work? I think that they need to get information out of people, but I don't think that have enough experince to truly have a humane way of doing it yet but I hope that changes.
http://blog.myspace.com/poptartcoco -
Very true.
Traci -
Sugar, there has been a lot of evidence that has consistantly shown that information obtained as a result of torture is not reliable or necessarily accurate. Under torture, individuals will agree to almost anything, lie, involve innocent people they love, do almost anything to escape.
If it doesn't work, and the information received is unreliable, and it is ethically wrong, why torture? -
this was some truly scary stuff to watch!!!!! My biggest fear is drowning because i can not swim. Thanks for pointing me to the video, THank God that guy was in a controlled situation.
Love,lj
10/24/06 1:42 AM
love you,
Kas