ok. jesus. i don't even know where to begin- i can handle gore in film, etc, but i can't handle 24. and honestly, i don't get it. but i will say this:
“In Iraq, I never saw pain produce intelligence,” Lagouranis told me. “I worked with someone who used waterboarding”—an interrogation method involving the repeated near-drowning of a suspect. “I used severe hypothermia, dogs, and sleep deprivation. I saw suspects after soldiers had gone into their homes and broken their bones, or made them sit on a Humvee’s hot exhaust pipes until they got third-degree burns. Nothing happened.” Some people, he said, “gave confessions. But they just told us what we already knew. It never opened up a stream of new information.” If anything, he said, “physical pain can strengthen the resolve to clam up.”
THIS IS TORTURE. WTF! people talk about doing this blatantly, and then say "we do not torture" like the jedi mind trick is going to work. sick and ridiculous.
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Date: 2007-03-01 11:08 pm (UTC)“In Iraq, I never saw pain produce intelligence,” Lagouranis told me. “I worked with someone who used waterboarding”—an interrogation method involving the repeated near-drowning of a suspect. “I used severe hypothermia, dogs, and sleep deprivation. I saw suspects after soldiers had gone into their homes and broken their bones, or made them sit on a Humvee’s hot exhaust pipes until they got third-degree burns. Nothing happened.” Some people, he said, “gave confessions. But they just told us what we already knew. It never opened up a stream of new information.” If anything, he said, “physical pain can strengthen the resolve to clam up.”
THIS IS TORTURE. WTF! people talk about doing this blatantly, and then say "we do not torture" like the jedi mind trick is going to work. sick and ridiculous.