My Right To Stay Alive?
November 7th 2007 14:52
A popular argument you here by advocates of such things as water boarding or the patriot act claim that people have a right to stay alive, and say it in such a manner as to imply it's more important than civil liberties.
Might we remember how our freedoms were founded and defended?
The coward will want to lose civil liberties for the 0.000001% extra chance he will have to stay alive. True bravery is dying free.
Might we remember how our freedoms were founded and defended?
The coward will want to lose civil liberties for the 0.000001% extra chance he will have to stay alive. True bravery is dying free.
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Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Those found guilty can be tried as war criminals.
Sadistic people torture for the sheer pleasure of it.
That is only reason it exists.
To give some sick pleasure to saddist and their supporters.
Comment by Jim Stillman
Political Certainty
During the Spanish-American War, a U.S. soldier, Major Edwin Glenn, was suspended from command for one month and fined $50 for using "the water cure." In his review, the Army judge advocate said the charges constituted "resort to torture with a view to extort a confession." He recommended disapproval because "the United States cannot afford to sanction the addition of torture."
In the Second World War, Germany is not believed to have employed waterboarding (although they were not loathe to utilize other barbaric methods) but the Japanese did.
In the war crimes tribunals that followed Japan's defeat in World War II, the issue of waterboarding was sometimes raised. In 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian. Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
There have been instances of U.S. forces using this practice. On Jan. 21, 1968, The Washington Post ran a front-page photo of a U.S. soldier supervising the waterboarding of a captured North Vietnamese soldier. The caption said the technique induced "a flooding sense of suffocation and drowning meant to make him talk." The picture led to an Army investigation and, two months later, the court martial of the soldier.
Cases of waterboarding have occurred on U.S. soil, as well. In 1983, Texas Sheriff James Parker was charged, along with three of his deputies, for handcuffing prisoners to chairs, placing towels over their faces, and pouring water on the cloth until they gave what the officers considered to be confessions. The sheriff and his deputies were all convicted and sentenced to four years in prison.
The President says, we do not torture. But the evidence is otherwise.
Comment by Ahmed
techy.Bytes
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
Qwerk
Cinema Three
Jim, theres no doubt that waterboarding has been torture since its creation. Anyone trying to put this in another category is simply defending the indefensible. When it comes down to it all those who advocate waterboarding in effect advocate torture. they also possibly hate their percieved enemies more so than they love their own liberties.