Harry Potter and the Torture Apologist’s Trump Card
Captives at Guantánamo Bay were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor for 18 hours or more, urinating and defecating on themselves, an FBI report has revealed. …
Besides being shackled to the floor, detainees were subjected to extremes of temperature. One witness said he saw a barefoot detainee shaking with cold because the air conditioning had bought the temperature close to freezing.
On another occasion, the air conditioning was off in an unventilated room, making the temperature over 38C (100F) and a detainee lay almost unconscious on the floor with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been pulling out his hair throughout the night.
Michelle Malkin, March 2007: Torture, shmorture! They get to read the Harry Potter books!
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March 30th, 2007 @ 14:09
Almost regretfully, I would have no problem shackling up some guy if I knew he was in on 9/11. But, as we know, hundreds of these captives at Guantanamo were later released after being proven innocent, so we screwed up royally.
March 30th, 2007 @ 15:11
I know what you mean. It’s only human to wish to do great harm to people like the 9/11 planners, but torture is wrong, no matter what.
Unfortunately, far too many Americans have been willing to accept it as axiomatic that anyone suspected of being involved with terrorism is automatically guilty of being a terrorist, and that it’s always OK to torture a terrorist. If someone like Malkin or those tools at Powerline could personally take part in the torture for a few days, sort of like a Baseball Fantasy Camp, I think they would do it, and never mind what Jesus would have had to say about it.
March 30th, 2007 @ 18:30
Jesus! If that were done to a dog, this country would be in an uproar. So, why do the “religous right” sit on their collective hands, smile and nod?
Personally, I think these tortures should be tried out on people like Malkin, Rush, bush, cheney, condi, o’reilly et al. I have the link somewhere, it states that less than 15% at Gitmo MAY actually have terrorist ties.
What a slap in the face of democracy and the GC.
April 2nd, 2007 @ 21:20
I agree that torture is never justified.
You can’t torture prisoners and then protest when the other guys do it to you.
April 5th, 2007 @ 13:30
Come on, Brother-post another story!
April 5th, 2007 @ 13:33
I’ve bookmarked several things over the past week, but haven’t gotten around to writing blog posts about them. Soon, though!