The crowds where so blood thirsty they had to stop the public exicutions in favor of a safer form of exicution .We limited the number of people cause quite frankly law enforcement was scared of the wild crowds yelling and screaming for more ..
How barbaric and to think it is making a comeback .People love to harm others and watch or know they are suffering .
I am appaled at the people who can accept that torture is acceptable and we have set ourselfs back 500 years on the scales of evolution .
2006-09-29 03:05:34 · 15 answers · asked by playtoofast 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You are right, it is barbaric and we should not condon it.
2006-09-29 03:07:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Set outselves back 500 years? Even if it had been that long since we embraced the idea of public execution and legal torture (which it hasn't) this is something that is part of our very nature as people. It just takes the right stimulation to bring it back. Do you remember the days the followed 9/11/2001? Do you remember how the American public wanted to "bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age"? A milliion, ten million lives wouldn't have been enough to quench our collective bloodthirst for the 3,000 Americans that died. And if we found the someone that knew where bin Laden was, he could have been tortured on prime time television under direction from Quentin Terrantino and no one would have said a thing.
Even now. Let another building blow up in a major US city and the Terror Bill and talk of what kind of torture is ok would continue only long enough for the Republicans to blame the Democrats for giving the terrorist too many rights, then the talk would be about exactly who we should be torturing.
2006-09-29 10:21:04 · answer #2 · answered by Chris D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you think torture has ever disappeared then you are sadly mistaken. The difference has been that American's had always stayed happily blind to the actions of our government. It is not until recently that some of these things surfaced and the left us with egg on our face. As for things like the Geneva Convention and international law, it makes me laugh when we think these were written to force America into compliance. They were written by America and America's allies to force other countries into compliance. They were written to give us excuses to invade other countries, when we deemed fit. But, as we see the atrocities in Sudan go on, we do not apply the Geneva Convention, because we simply do not care.
Did you know that Americans cannot stand trial in the Hague? We will enforce international law, but we will not allow ourselves to be held to it. So, when people say this new law will legalize torture, I have to laugh. Our government has been openly torturing people since our inception and has no real intentions on stopping, but will better find ways to hide this ugly sin from it's citizens. In the end though, if toruring a dozen or so people saves a hundred thousand lives, was it justified? The real answer is, only if I didn't know about it.
2006-09-29 10:18:37 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Mojo Risin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One day you will take the time to get off your soap box and read the bill. Interrigation is not torture...but you can't distinduish between the two huh? Guess all the interrigation our police do to capture murderers and pedofiles are torture and should be stopped. Guess we should give these terrorists a sack lunch and a bus ride to the border.
Do some research. Then come back and post something that doesn't sound like drivel...
2006-09-29 10:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by Q-burt 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Public hanging should be started as soon as possible. Criminals get way too many rights at the expense of victims. Even when someone does get the death penalty it usually takes several years with free maid service provided to them. When the execution finally does come they get high first so they won't have to suffer. Libs don't like to mention the suffering of the victims.
2006-09-29 10:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by squeaky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to watch the public executions in Saudi Arabia, mostly foreigners that didn't respect their Islamic laws. It's a good way to keep control of the masses, America could learn a lesson from their justice system.
2006-09-29 10:17:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bloodthirsty crowd is not going to want to watch a man kept awake for 48 hours. Even Water Boarding was excluded from the bill that was passed.
2006-09-29 10:12:41 · answer #7 · answered by MEL T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Torture just made a comeback with HR6166. If bush and his gang had their way we'd probably be buying tickets to the coleseum about now.
2006-09-29 10:09:10 · answer #8 · answered by pointingdevices 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there should be a public hanging in Washington dc, oh wait a minute the Secret Service won't let that happen. Ok, cancel that. You are right we are becoming a police state with repuglican approval.
2006-09-29 10:10:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I will admit the only hanging I want to see is Osama Bin Laden hanged at the World Trade Center site.
I can think of no better way to signal the world of our resolve in this matter than to capture, try and hang this murderer.
2006-09-29 10:08:37 · answer #10 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I hope you are right!
But just for the record, the torture you think is torture is not really torture. No racks, no iron maidens, or hot coals, no electrodes to the genitals. Only lack of sleep, cold rooms, and whatever water boarding means. I won't except a liberals idea of what that is!
2006-09-29 10:07:30 · answer #11 · answered by battle-ax 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋