Date Posted:13:14:10 10/09/07 Tue Author: Michael Subject: Re: did anyone read this? In reply to:
Pablo
's message, "Re: did anyone read this?" on 12:50:00 10/09/07 Tue
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>>>I'll just fight back with my .38.
>>
>>one bullet, one less yeller, the traditional western
>>approach, i like that :-)
>
>On a more serious note - if this thing is real it will
>seem to be a godsend to our present administration.
>They are being prevented from applying some of the
>more heinous forms of torture in their secret prisons
>because they must stay within the guidelines that they
>have established in defining torture. Anything that
>does not "bring about permanent physical harm or
>death" is not torture. Imagine a machine that can
>deliver excruciating pain without leaving any physical
>marks. Do you believe for a minute that it won't be
>used? Especially when, in their twisted logic, it is
>not torture?
Slowly but surely the Bush administration is slidding into the same tactics that they claim to be fighting against. History plays the same game over and over.