Saturday, September 16, 2006

What is torture?

To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment - Item C, Article 3 Geneva Convention

ksm_happy.jpgRecently the story of Khalid S Mohammad the murderer and planner of 9/11 and other stupidities of death has come out including the story of his spilling the beans which apparently consisted of the Red Hot Chili Peppers at volumes similar to which I listened (and still do) to Led Zeppelin, Cream and the Stones ...and uncomfortably cool rooms.

Well my wife complains about music volumes and too cold rooms all the time. Perhaps HRW should include me on their annual list of rogue torturers.

Seriously, while I don't think anyone can make any but the most 'torturous' explanation of how loud music is really torture, it would be informative to know what the temperautre of the room was when KSM whined it all out to Uncle Sam.
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55 degress F can hardly be torture, while 25 certainly IS for any extended period past a few minutes (the germans put jews and others in cold water to determine the time their pilots shot down could survive)

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Torture is standing in a blasted-out window on the 100th floor of the World Trade Center and having to decide between being roasted alive and jumping from that window to be smashed to pieces on the pavement below.

We can't subject captured jihadists to that particular torture because the towers are gone. But pretty much anything else is OK by me.

If I recall correctly the Geneva Convention pertains to soldiers, not to monsters who strap explosives to their own children and send them into crowded restaurants.

Epaminondas said...

Unfortunately, the geneva conventions pertain to anyone whose conscience might be bothered one day, or when they are presented with the dirty realities of standing opposed to murderers whose conscience, essentially, in our terms is non existant.

We have no alternative in the USA but to deal CLEARLY with those who childishly expect war to mean every bullet finding a target in the brain of the gintsu wielding zarquoids, and every capture and interrogation to be a reasoning session on the superiority of western conscience over nihilistic destruction.

Kiddo said...

Not to be genuinely thick regarding the content of this post, I'm not ignoring it. It's just that the pic of the World's Hairiest man looks rather funny posted just above the headline, "The Great Dog Hair Dilemma". He is the anti-hunk, which his status as one of the most evil people alive would grant him anyway, but damn....I've always thought that that pic alone is a scary window to the man's scarier mind.

Pastorius said...

Epa,
Here you are trying to defend torture. Just look at that photo. Look at what we did to that man. Obviously we played some Chili Peppers for him, and then he went out to some all night underground club and did a bunch of cocaine with strippers.

A lot of my friends look like that in the morning.

Epaminondas said...

Ah yes... a far cry from the halcyon days..maybe he just likes coke to be edgy and paranoid

Pastorius said...

The more coke you do, the better a terrorist you become.