Torture

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In a recent post to her LJ, porcineflight wrote about a campaign to make today "Blog Anti-Torture Speakout Day". So here are at least some of the reasons i'm opposed to torture:

• It basically doesn't work, despite what addicts of fear-porn like "24" may claim. But don't take my word for it: "Torture Has a Long History ... of Not Working", "Dear Senators - CIA Letter on Torture", "The Torture Myth", "Retired FBI agent: Waterboarding produced 'crap' information from detainee".


• The "ticking time bomb" argument in favour of torture is hardly sound: Torture and the ticking time bomb".


• Torture can, and does, rebound on the torturing society in various ways: "It's our cage too".


• Even if torturing the complicit was acceptable, torturing the innocent most certainly is not: "Confessions of a torturer: The story of Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis".

Torture is Not an Option.
 

Comments

[sacred-harlot.livejournal.com]

Indeed, well said!

in Solidarity,
Sacred Harlot.