[Picture: Red, white & blue ribblon.]
[Text: These colors don't torture.
Dear Gentlepersons:
Sponsored by the ever more ineffective and notorious Bush II R+¬gime, our ever more ineffective and notorious CIA is to resume the physical torture of their prisoners:
Below from: < http://www.washingto... >
Bush Approves New CIA Methods
By Karen DeYoung
President Bush set broad legal boundaries for the CIA's harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects yesterday, allowing the intelligence agency to resume a program that was suspended last year after criticism that it violated U.S. and international law. ...
Above from: < http://www.washingto... >
Physical torture is a horror, for all involved, as old as man. But worse than that, it degrades the quality of information which an interrogation program can produce. A good interrogation program yields quality intelligence primarily from systematically questioning many suspects and comparing their responses. Often there is some intense psychological pressure, such as we routinely apply to criminal suspects all across the USA. But there should never be physical torture because it:
1. Merely forces the suspect(s) to confirm whatever the abuser(s), often incorrectly, suspect.
2. Leaves the perpetrators looking angry, brutal, ineffective and defeated -- see the film Michael Collins.
3. Is illegal under the laws the post WWII generation insisted be established at Geneva.
But sadly none of this will sway the Bush II R+¬gime, because: "... a prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice, ..." ~ Machiavelli
With every good wish,
John R. Cole
The misuse of words is a hallmark of tyrants who, arrogantly pretending they are innocent, reveal their own doubts about what they are doing by trying to twist the words to prove their own innocence. Like little boys lying to cover up transgressions.