Donald Trump on waterboarding: ‘If it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway.’

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Who is covered by the constitution?

Well see the government has entered into a few treaties relating to torture including the Geneva Convention and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman and Degrading Treatment. Now when those were ratified the government was bound by them. As far as I know those are still in place and the Constitution is pretty explicit when it comes to Treaties and how they are ratified.... So.....
 

Darwin333

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Look up unit 731 and tell me you still feel that way.

Here I will give you some text but there are photos. Lots and lots of photos of all kinds of "experiments"

Prisoners, including one known POW,[18] were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia.[19] Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Researchers performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results.[20] The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants, including pregnant women and their infants impregnated by Japanese surgeons.[21]
Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss. Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body. Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and amputated, while others had limbs frozen, then thawed to study the effects of the resultant untreated gangrene and rotting.
Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus reattached to the intestines. Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.[19]
Japanese army surgeon Ken Yuasa suggests that the practice of vivisection on human subjects (mostly Chinese Communists) was widespread even outside Unit 731,[6] estimating that at least 1,000 people were involved in the practice in mainland China.[22]

As horrible as that all is, I question myself if, assuming it produced profound new understanding, burning it it versus using it for good is the right call. I think that at the end of the day I would rather all that misery go to help mankind versus it being thrown away and their suffering be for nothing. Understand that I am only talking about the specific situations in where countries were concurred and this inhumanity would no longer continue because we (or someone that has at least a smidgen of humanity) are occupying them.


Here is an interesting question. Lets pretend that someone tortured, brutalized and basically did all of the above to 100 human beings who all died but it resulted in the cure of every cancer that effects humans. We find those people and we stop and/or kill them. Do you throw away the cure or do you save tens/hundreds of thousands from severe suffering and eventually death? It's one hellofa question that I'm not sure has an answer. I personally think that if we can stop it we should but if it has already been done when we stop it, previously unknown information is a foolish thing to throw away.
 

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And hillary lies her ass off and the left sucks it up....damn, you're stupid.


We, the general public, are screwed.

I'm no fan of Hillary but show me when she's made even 1/10th the amount of outlandish statements Trump or Carson has? In fact, for Republicans, it's basically a race to the bottom since it's clear the contenders are tripping over themselves trying to top one another on who can make the most retarded statements ever in a presidential campaign. It just goes to show the extreme dumbing down of the right. If Trump really wants to clinch the Republican nomination, he should say he'll waterboard Obama after he becomes president--the zombies will eat it up.
 
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Foreign soil?

Total war is the only war. You have to absolutely demolish morale and the desire to fight in order to win. If you aren't willing to go that far, then don't make war and let shit get taken from you. Others don't play by this silly one-sided morality we hinder ourselves with.

The Kurds are always willing to take on a new volunteer.
 

Vaux

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Ah the Geneva Convention, yeah that always made me feel so warm and fuzzy inside, knowing that if I was taken as a POW it would protect me. :\
 

Darwin333

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The question for me is what will the enemy do to kill mine?

Ex. Mag, I know a guy that is going to break into your house, rape your wife, kill your kids and steal your plasma tv but I won't tell you who. This is a fact unless you make me tell. What will you do?



Argue however you like but I will do whatever is necessary to protect mine even if that means you lose yours. I'll hang my head in shame but I'll also hug my wife and child.

And what happens when you, under the severe distress of torture just wanting it to stop, gives him false information that he acts upon. While he is acting on it the real bad guy does all of what you said above.

How do you discern against truthful information and information given just to make it stop during torture? "The last thing you want to be when the torturer comes is innocent." You torture anyone bad enough and they will tell you the story that you want to hear, it's basic human nature to want the pain the stop and at some point they will tell you something regardless if true or not. I guarantee, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I (or some professional torturer actually) could get you to admit that you were in on the 9/11 attacks. Would that make it good and actionable intelligence?
 
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IIRC, which is doubtful, we used a lot of their "studies" on how to treat burn/wound/hypothermia/etc victims. I don't agree with the method but if we can save people with the data....

You might find this of some interest:

Chapter 7: Human Experimentation
Section 4. Readings
[FONT=&quot] The Ethical Considerations of Medical Experimentation on[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Human Subjects [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]by Manny Bekier, M.S.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]November 18, 2010[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/MEDICAL_ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_7_Human_Experimentation/Reading-Nazi-experimentation.htm
[/FONT]





 

Vaux

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And what happens when you, under the severe distress of torture just wanting it to stop, gives him false information that he acts upon. While he is acting on it the real bad guy does all of what you said above.

How do you discern against truthful information and information given just to make it stop during torture? "The last thing you want to be when the torturer comes is innocent." You torture anyone bad enough and they will tell you the story that you want to hear, it's basic human nature to want the pain the stop and at some point they will tell you something regardless if true or not. I guarantee, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I (or some professional torturer actually) could get you to admit that you were in on the 9/11 attacks. Would that make it good and actionable intelligence?

Um, yeah. I don't think people get waterboarded for the hell of it, just to see if they can find out anything. It would have to be information that you know they know, and you need to know. And even then, I wouldn't think anyone is real quick to act on that information with out at least a hint that it's accurate. I don't think our intelligence people are a bunch of idiots. At least I hope they aren't.
 

Jeff7

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Yeah because we all became nazis...
We already have a lot of people who are ok with terrible treatment of people because they feel it is justified. A lot of horrendous things have been done in recent history because it was "justified." It doesn't take much for our species to revert to our exceedingly violent, primitive instincts. We're a species that has to have laws as reminders not to do things like murder or torture people.





Agree but if you're blowing up peeps in America....tough shit.

I would much rather not having any conflict but some groups demand it. That includes the fanatic religious right. Eat dirt.
I still don't think that justifies it.
Caught and imprisoned indefinitely, fine.
Basic state execution, so long as there is an abundance of evidence, ok.
Torture? It serves no purpose, and if torturing a person brings you satisfaction, that doesn't say much about your ethics or morality either. Torture for vengeance is one of humanity's many persistent black eyes. It doesn't make someone a better person, and it doesn't repair the damage they've done.




So how we do that if Fred knows the details of a bombing that will kill ours but smores aren't convincing him to give it up?


No, I don't have the answer but I do know pacifism will not work.
And I agree that pacifism will not work. Not for humanity. Not until we find a way to grow past ancient instincts that compel us to be tribal, paranoid, and extremely selfish to the point of harming others. It's an old survival tactic, that's all. The group benefits at the expense of individuals.
We've come to value individuals as a society, but that thinking is at odds with that survival instinct. And so, we are constantly at war with each other, tribes of primitives fighting over resources, for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.

We can at least try to limit the damage we do to each other, and to the tenuous social progress we've made.
 

Jhhnn

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Um, yeah. I don't think people get waterboarded for the hell of it, just to see if they can find out anything. It would have to be information that you know they know, and you need to know.

That's just how you sell it to the public while you're leading them to acts even worse, like invading another country on false premises.

We're all knuckle draggers at some level. The objective is to bring us to that level thru fear mongering & blood lust.
 
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umbrella39

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He makes his posts from under his mom's skirt. I don't think he is impressing anyone. Even those on his "team"...
 

John Connor

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Trump did say they do more harsh shit. So *making a weighing motion with hands* what is worse? Some freaking H2O or having your damn head cut off if you're lucky? If not burned alive.
 

WelshBloke

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So *making a weighing motion with hands* what is worse? Some freaking H2O or having your damn head cut off if you're lucky? If not burned alive.

Neither?

If I get arrested in America I don't expect any of the above to happen to me because America isn't a shithole, if I get captured by ISIS I expect any/all of the above to happen because they are a bunch of animals that live in a shithole.
 

brycejones

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Neither?

If I get arrested in America I don't expect any of the above to happen to me because America isn't a shithole, if I get captured by ISIS I expect any/all of the above to happen because they are a bunch of animals that live in a shithole.

This, instead of some retarded argument that some torture is better than other torture therefore we should use the "good" torture.
 

LegendKiller

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You talk a lot of shit but nobody sees you back it up.

What's the holdup, tough guy? Have you been to a war?
I was signed up for nrotc for a full scholarship. Then my knee decided to fold in half, sideways, one morning. Ripped out a quarter of my cartilage in the initial event.

I have 3 titanium screws in my shin after they reattached my patellar tendon. They moved it to tighten up my knee cap. My knee sounds like a dump truck when I bend. Hurts like a mofo if the temp changes any more than 20 degrees in a day. I will need an artificial knee in 5 years or so.

Navy took one look at the x-rays of the screws and told me I couldn't serve.
 
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