Torture
The UK Guardian released the details of the "torture" techniques that the CIA wants to use against al Qaeda suspects.
"The techniques sought by the CIA are: induced hypothermia; forcing suspects to stand for prolonged periods; sleep deprivation; a technique called "the attention grab" where a suspect's shirt is forcefully seized; the "attention slap" or open hand slapping that hurts but does not lead to physical damage; the "belly slap"; and sound and light manipulation."
Well if that is what the Senate is all up in arms about, I have to wonder how any of them survived childhood. After all, if I messed up my parents were not above the forcefully grabbing my shirt or using an "attention slap" and I issued (and received) more than my fair share of "pink bellies" growing up. I also wonder how they survived raising their own children. How many parents suffered with sleep deprivation, hypothermia and were forced to stand for long periods of time with our children as they were sick! How many of them used "light and sound manipulation" to force a recalcitrant child to go to sleep or force a sleepy teen-ager out of bed in the morning!
Now I realize that there is a degree of difference between the sleep deprivation that the parent of a newborn experiences verses what is done to these detainees, but come on...seizing someones shirt or slapping them in the face is HARDLY a violation of the Geneva Convention. If that were the case, then you would need to arrest a majority of the high school students in the US. There is hardly a one that has not grabbed a classmate by the collar or been grabbed by the collar him/herself!
I think we need to apply a little common sense to the situation. Grabbing shirts or an open handed slap is not degrading or dehumanizing. Cutting off their heads and burning them with cigarettes are. Americans are not the ones that are torturing people here...the jihadists are. We need to remember that little fact!
"The techniques sought by the CIA are: induced hypothermia; forcing suspects to stand for prolonged periods; sleep deprivation; a technique called "the attention grab" where a suspect's shirt is forcefully seized; the "attention slap" or open hand slapping that hurts but does not lead to physical damage; the "belly slap"; and sound and light manipulation."
Well if that is what the Senate is all up in arms about, I have to wonder how any of them survived childhood. After all, if I messed up my parents were not above the forcefully grabbing my shirt or using an "attention slap" and I issued (and received) more than my fair share of "pink bellies" growing up. I also wonder how they survived raising their own children. How many parents suffered with sleep deprivation, hypothermia and were forced to stand for long periods of time with our children as they were sick! How many of them used "light and sound manipulation" to force a recalcitrant child to go to sleep or force a sleepy teen-ager out of bed in the morning!
Now I realize that there is a degree of difference between the sleep deprivation that the parent of a newborn experiences verses what is done to these detainees, but come on...seizing someones shirt or slapping them in the face is HARDLY a violation of the Geneva Convention. If that were the case, then you would need to arrest a majority of the high school students in the US. There is hardly a one that has not grabbed a classmate by the collar or been grabbed by the collar him/herself!
I think we need to apply a little common sense to the situation. Grabbing shirts or an open handed slap is not degrading or dehumanizing. Cutting off their heads and burning them with cigarettes are. Americans are not the ones that are torturing people here...the jihadists are. We need to remember that little fact!
posted by The Lady Logician at
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