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[Remember]:torture since the American civil war
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I love it when someone from a Turd World country tries to scold the US.
(July 2, 2020 at 6:54 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(July 1, 2020 at 9:35 pm)no one Wrote: The "info" gathered from torture may not be reliable, but it sure is fun to extract it nonetheless. I’m have a memory lapse - who was the American general who said something like, ‘I can get more usable intel out of a prisoner with two beers and a pack of cigarettes than I can with any amount of torture’? Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
(July 2, 2020 at 9:35 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Montgomery?(July 2, 2020 at 6:54 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Take ten people, each of them unaware that the others have been caught. Persuade them to give you information. Nine of the ten give you the same information. What's your conclusion?
Countries in the middle east have extensively used torture
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...port-finds https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur...45089.html https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/19/iraq...ure-deaths https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...72101.html
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse! “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?” –SHIRLEY CHISHOLM (July 6, 2020 at 5:42 am)SUNGULA Wrote: Countries in the middle east have extensively used torture The only person on this planet who is maybe surprised, maybe irritated, maybe pissed off, that person is most probably the creator of this crackpot thread.
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(July 6, 2020 at 9:08 am)Deesse23 Wrote:True(July 6, 2020 at 5:42 am)SUNGULA Wrote: Countries in the middle east have extensively used torture
"Change was inevitable"
Nemo sicut deus debet esse! “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?” –SHIRLEY CHISHOLM (July 1, 2020 at 9:55 am)tackattack Wrote: torture works It doesn't work at all if one's goal is to get at the truth. If one is a sadistic bastard who needs the pain of others to get one's rocks off, then it does work. The first is the professed goal of torturers down through the ages.
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Home (July 7, 2020 at 5:06 am)Nomad Wrote:(July 1, 2020 at 9:55 am)tackattack Wrote: torture works Correct on all counts. As General Mattis implied, there’s really no reason to torture someone for information. The subject is more likely to say - literally - anything to make the torture stop. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
I’ll be more specific nomad. Standardized and systemic torture applied equivocally to appropriate sample sizes of isolated prisoners is effective for validating a shared piece of information every time. It may not be a great tool, a moral tool, or an acceptable method, but it can be very effective.
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