Here’s what your torture got us. Remember the pen guns? Remember all the malls that they said someone was going to bomb…yeah that came out of a guys mouth that was being tortured and just started spewing lies out of his mouth to get us to stop torturing him. Those interrogation tactics have been proven useless time and time again. This was proven to be true when the Supreme Court, in 1968, ruled 5-4 saying that any person confessing after a 6 hour period before having been in front of a judge would make that confession void. If you do not believe me. Here is their RULING.

In case you’re wanting to avoid facts by NOT clicking on the link. I took the liberty of posting this ruling:

§ 3501. Admissibility of confessions
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(a) In any criminal prosecution brought by the United States or by the District of Columbia, a confession, as defined in subsection (e) hereof, shall be admissible in evidence if it is voluntarily given. Before such confession is received in evidence, the trial judge shall, out of the presence of the jury, determine any issue as to voluntariness. If the trial judge determines that the confession was voluntarily made it shall be admitted in evidence and the trial judge shall permit the jury to hear relevant evidence on the issue of voluntariness and shall instruct the jury to give such weight to the confession as the jury feels it deserves under all the circumstances.
(b) The trial judge in determining the issue of voluntariness shall take into consideration all the circumstances surrounding the giving of the confession, including
(1) the time elapsing between arrest and arraignment of the defendant making the confession, if it was made after arrest and before arraignment,
(2) whether such defendant knew the nature of the offense with which he was charged or of which he was suspected at the time of making the confession,
(3) whether or not such defendant was advised or knew that he was not required to make any statement and that any such statement could be used against him,
(4) whether or not such defendant had been advised prior to questioning of his right to the assistance of counsel; and
(5) whether or not such defendant was without the assistance of counsel when questioned and when giving such confession.
The presence or absence of any of the above-mentioned factors to be taken into consideration by the judge need not be conclusive on the issue of voluntariness of the confession.
(c) In any criminal prosecution by the United States or by the District of Columbia, a confession made or given by a person who is a defendant therein, while such person was under arrest or other detention in the custody of any law-enforcement officer or law-enforcement agency, shall not be inadmissible solely because of delay in bringing such person before a magistrate judge or other officer empowered to commit persons charged with offenses against the laws of the United States or of the District of Columbia if such confession is found by the trial judge to have been made voluntarily and if the weight to be given the confession is left to the jury and if such confession was made or given by such person within six hours immediately following his arrest or other detention: Provided, That the time limitation contained in this subsection shall not apply in any case in which the delay in bringing such person before such magistrate judge or other officer beyond such six-hour period is found by the trial judge to be reasonable considering the means of transportation and the distance to be traveled to the nearest available such magistrate judge or other officer.
(d) Nothing contained in this section shall bar the admission in evidence of any confession made or given voluntarily by any person to any other person without interrogation by anyone, or at any time at which the person who made or gave such confession was not under arrest or other detention.
(e) As used in this section, the term “confession” means any confession of guilt of any criminal offense or any self-incriminating statement made or given orally or in writing.

You are so enemy-friendly it scares the hell out of us NORMAL people.

It is an international crime to torture. It is a crime in the U.S. to torture, therefore any torture, regardless of where, and regardless of whom, should be prosecuted. Just because someone does something to us, does not give us a right to degrade our own moral standing and do it back.

The person “accused” of masterminding the 911 attacks, still has not been brought to justice…should he be tortured? NO. He should be brought up on charges, given a fair trial, and a jury should convict him. Plain and simple. Anything other than that is Anarchy. We have a civil way of punishing criminals(we used to at least), and that is how all crimes should be punished, through the court of law.

Comparing car battery clamps to a beheading is not a good comparison. How about using someones child as a form of torture. Placing a mans children in a confined space with scorpions and ants that bite and forcing him to listen to his children scream in agony is NOT OK. Like I said before…if you think this is ok, then you are not ok. We do not need sadistic people like you running around in this country. You seemed like a level-headed person as I’m sure you are, but this is not something that can be looked past, sir. It is WRONG. no matter what the circumstances are. We are a nation with humanities and we should treat all people humanely, irregardless of how inhumane they were.

You torture people from another country…the people from that country will like you less just because of the tactics used, and are more likely to strike back at you for that. Take the pirates for example. They took their hostages and treated them as if they were guests…up until our captain decided to jump in the boat with them, then they were stuck between a rock and a hard place and didn’t have a chance to treat him any kind of way. The pirates are more humane than you are.

Car batteries and clamps to the testes is torture and even that is a hell of a lot better than the atrocities they and their kind committed against our citizens. It’s NOTHING compared to beheading someone live on the internet and NOTHING compared to flying jets into the World Trade Center, killing THOUSANDS.