re: #274 Cato the Elder

The man who smuggled out of UAE the damning torture tape of Sheikh Issa, among other things, running over another man with his Mercedes Gelndewagen - that man was also held in prison for months, where he was subjected to things like this:

So, what say ye? Was this torture?

It depends.

Was the UAE a free representative democracy at the time, attacked by totalitarian terrorists in an unprovoked act of war the murdered 3000 of its civilians with the aim to bring down the country most able to stop their global domination, that used harsh interrogation techniques agianst the planners and executers of said attack to expose vital information to stop (and did stop) an existing and imminent plan to murder thousands more in another one of its cities?

Or was it just some tin pot oil rich brother of a illigitamate back water desert monarch of a sand prision that practices religious, gender, class, race, and cultural apartheid and supremecism doing a Sopranos style “pay back” on a poor farmer that pissed him off?