Everything You Need to Know About Torture

March 8, 2011

source: Washintons Blog   Mar 8, 2011

Here is a succinct executive summary of everything you need to know about torture:

Yes, Waterboarding IS Torture

  • Everyone claiming waterboarding is not torture has changed their tune as soon as they were exposed to even a small dose of it themselves. See this, this and this

Not Just Waterboarding

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Teacher’s Aides Accused of Waterboarding Special-Needs Student

October 23, 2009

see aslo: 16 Year Old Boy With Autism Shot 5 Times by Officer at School.  

   

source: Raw Story

Political observers like The Atlantic‘s Andrew Sullivan have argued that one of the most dangerous elements of the Bush administration’s torture policies was the risk that a “torture mentality” would take hold in American society.

Those who seek evidence for that theory need look no further than Great Falls, Montana, where two teacher’s aides have been charged with using water torture on a middle school student.

Julie Ann Parrish and Kristina Marie Kallies face one count each of felony abuse after allegations that they forced a 13-year-old autistic boy’s head under water after he fell asleep in class. They also stand accused of “forcing him to sit in his soiled pants for hours and making him eat his own vomit when he got sick,” reports KTLA in Los Angeles.

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Conservative radio host Erich Mancow waterboarded; admits it is torture.

May 24, 2009

Remember, our leaders have been actively using this and other torture methods on suspected criminals with no jury or trial, and no habeus corpus to boot. Obama, get your ass in gear or get out.

“I want to find out if it’s torture,” Mancow told his listeners Friday morning, adding that he hoped his on-air test would help prove that waterboarding did not, in fact, constitute torture.
read the story here.

See Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair last a little longer here, and read about it here.

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