re: #25 GlutenFreeJesus

Let’s waterboard all these idiots. It’s not torture. Just a splash of water. Nothing to be scared of!

They are too afraid of it to try it voluntarily, remember Sean Hannity’s offer and his subsquent chickening out? (only 1:15 long)

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Hmm…”it isn’t torture!” Yet they are too afraid of it to try it for themselves? If they are scared of it knowing that they can stop it at any point, after only a few seconds (the way Hitchens did) then how do they think a prisoner with no control over the process feels? It sure seems to fit the definition of torture to me…

“… ‘torture’ means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession…

That is the definition used by the United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT). We signed that convention in 1985 and then that signature was ratified in 1986.