Okay, let's say my daughter, Little Nell, is tied to the railroad tracks and I hear the distant train coming! But I don't know exactly where on the tracks she is!Now I will personally dash over to that black-robed terrorist who is gleefully chuckling and wrap MY HANDS around his throat until he chokes out, "Over there!"Is that good enough for you?But for terrorists, or murder suspects, or other evil doers I would let TRAINED INTERROGATORS interrogate. Heck, they could even use truth serum, sodium pentothal if that were sanctioned. But proven methods--good cop, bad cop, speaking in their native language, time, repeated questioning, "the Stockholm Syndrome", amnesty--there are scores of techniques that yield intelligence that can be corroborated. Without resorting to the dubious intelligence gleaned from hurting someone grevously.Check out the movie "Rendition". Good movie, had the spiderman actor and a couple of other famous actors in it. A true story of a Canadian chemical engineer who happened to get confused with someone else. Very unsettling what could happen to an innocent airline traveler. Like you or me. Don't forget that the far right is on government watch lists. These are our freedoms we are talking about.Freedom from torture is number one in my opinion. That's why I send money to the ACLU every year. I don't like ALL of their cases that they defend. They do defend even scumbags whose rights have been violated. But the idea of defending those rights is why I send them those checks.Furnishedowner
Torture is "temporary discomfort"?!Let's listen to John McCain on this one.Furnishedowner
Furnishedowner,I am shocked that you are saying that murdering a poor little baby that managed to survive a botched abortion is not "evil". Wow, what is the world coming to? I am genuinely curious if we are being effected by the pcb's in plastic leaching into our food when it is heated in the microwave or coffee maker. It seems that there is a large group of people who have lost touch with both reason and logic and some of the deep morals and values that used to be so prevalent in Americans in general. You should rent this movie for a balanced perspective of the issue at hand.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6h0lsiQcwI at one point was indifferent to the abortion issue and was one of the few conservatives who were pro abortion. I changed my mind from this movie.
the viability of life is based on the convenience of the living. Maybe someday people transcend the divisiveness of gender, race, religion etc. and consider the costs of this mentality to humanity. JP