The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.No shit, it's torture!
'I would have no problems with describing this practice as falling under the prohibition of torture,' the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, told a news conference in Mexico City.
The U.S. Congress is considering banning the practice, in which prisoners are immobilized and water is poured into their breathing passages to simulate drowning.That is not a simulation of drowning. That IS drowning. It just isn't drowning to death. If you fire a gun into someone's foot is that a simulation of shooting because they didn't die?
Here is a suggestion for proper interrogation technique. We hire a bunch of elderly Minnesotan Lutheran women to do it. You bring in the prisoner. The ladies look up from their quilting. "Are you ready to talk?" If the prisoner replies that s/he isn't, the ladies offer them a cup of coffee and a piece of cream bread covered with cheese whiz and an olive slice in the center and proceed to gossip about how Mrs. Olson uses too much fertilizer on her rose bushes and all you really need are some old coffee grounds around the roots. "Do you need a warm up on your coffee, deary?"It's just as unpleasant as waterboarding and the UN hasn't classified it as torture yet. And they'll talk.
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The last line of the article linked to says, "Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s were known to use waterboarding on political prisoners."
Of course they also gave one way helicopter rides out over the ocean too.
I'm just not convinced everyone would buckle under the coffee and cream torture, er I mean interrogation method.
Jake, would you feel better about this if the prisoner were strapped to a surf board instead?
No! I could take bars, but not that. Anything but the cheez whiz olive bread! That's just sick.
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