Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Waterboarding...
Playboy journalist Mike Guy did something I've wondered about: he volunteered to undergo waterboarding to see how bad it could possibly be. I don't mean that I'd volunteer to do this, even as a controlled experiement. I've been convinced from the beginning that waterboarding IS torture, but I've wondered why some of the more outspoken defenders of this "interrogation technique" haven't volunteered to do what Mike Guy did, if it's just a matter of not being a pussy. Mike Guy says in the beginning of this video that he bet he could withstand 15 seconds of being waterboarded, reasoning that anyone can stand anything for 15 seconds. Watch the results. I'm in favor of appointing a special prosecutor.
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Judi, I agree! I saw this about 8 months ago and was sickened.
Awful.
I've never thought it wasn't torture. Truly sad the things we try to justify in the name of our own self-preservation. If this was done to one of our own, we would be screaming from the rafters against it but because it's being done to someone else out there it is being accepted. Shame on us.
Thanks for showing the video. More need to see it.
Hi Judi
YES! I agree. I want to see Dick Cheney, George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld volunteer to have this done to them. Let's see what they say when it is all said and done. Sigh. Here is the thing, as much as I appreciate Mike Guy having done this, was he sleep deprived as well? Because that is what happend you know, so as bad as he had it in the video, it was still worse for the Gitmo detainees. Sigh. So sad.
Carly
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