I hear all of the liberals screaming to stop using waterboarding...sleep depravation...extreme humiliaiton...on terrorists that we capture on the battlefield. I just don't understand why they run to defend these terrorists.
2007-12-06 04:07:18 · 22 answers · asked by Keith A. 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Underground....
Promoting torture? We are talking about playing loud music...depriving them of sleep....not cutting off thier fingers or burning them.
2007-12-06 05:33:59 · update #1
Everyone keeps forgeting....we are talking about sleep depravation and extreme humiliation to gain information to save American lives. Have you forgotten our troops and the 3,000 people we lost 6 years ago?
2007-12-06 15:51:59 · update #2
I understand where you're coming from. Though you're not talking about unnecessary torture for the purpose of revenge or one's sick pleasure, rather it's not a time to think about playing with kid gloves. For the purpose of important information, as a last resort for the sake of mankind.
2007-12-06 05:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by CharJ, 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
At some point in the last couple of years, your government(if you are a US citizen), eliminated Habeas Corpus from our rule of law. Simply put, law enforcement can now come to your home and take you away for as long as they desire and hold you forever without charging you with a crime. They can label you as an enemy of the state, a terrorist or anything they want. They can change the term waterboarding to swimming lessons. Not all of the people being held in Gitmo are terrorists, just as not all of the people who are being held in our prisons are guilty. You parannoid view of the world is part of the reason the world is coming unglued. In light of the information about Iran and the fact that we are sending our sons and daughters to die based on a lie, I am surprise the President's family still think he did the right thing.
2007-12-06 04:47:42 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen C 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Torture is both wrong and illegal.
Most of the people we've tortured were later released because they were not terrorists and had no knowledge of terrorism -- the same for some that were murdered by being tortured to death.
It's NOT a question of defending terrorists, it's about not being terrorists ourselves.
If we're worse than terrorists, by what right do we say that THEY are wrong, and we're the good guys?
Torture not only destroys tortured and torturer alike, but fuels hatred against us.
And rightly so.
No civilized human being thinks that torture is right.
If you were a human being, you would realize that.
2007-12-06 10:57:44 · answer #3 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you prefer that the US is viewed as a moral, civilized country on the side of freedom and moral high ground, or a bunch of torturing thugs no different from the terrorists. By the way this has nothing to do with liberalism, it has to do with character and human decency, even when fighting people you don't like. Torture also sets a precedent of how future US soldiers may be treated if captured.
2007-12-06 04:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by cimra 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
1. Torture is against US law.
2. Torture is against international law.
3. Torture is against the Geneva Convention.
4. If we torture others, they will torture our soldiers.
5. Torture does not work.
6. Liberals are not just protecting terrorists from being tortured. They are protecting people suspected of being terrorists, and people who are not terrorists, but the government claims that they are, people who are completely innocent and you also.
7. Torture is against American values.
8. Torture is immoral.
What is there about morals and ethics that the right wing has so much trouble understanding? What is it about American values and freedoms that the right wing hates so much?
2007-12-06 05:09:51 · answer #5 · answered by buffytou 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because we're better than that. Torturing people is not something a civilized country should be doing. And WATERBOARDING IS TORTURE!!! Look it up on Wikipedia, and see if it's something you would like done to you! Not to mention it gives them all the more reason to want to cause us harm and treat our captured soldiers the same way or worse! That is why people are against the methods used in interrogation. Do you think it's moral to strap someone to a board so they can't move and drip water in their face to simulate the feeling of drowning!?! Because that's what's happening to these prisoners down in Cuba!
In response to your response, the question you posed included "waterboarding" along with sleep depravation and and extreme humiliation. So that is included in this topic of discussion which to many people brings up the issue of torture. It seems to me like you asked this question in order to open up a forum of discussion on the issue. So why did you ask it if you don't like many of these responses?
2007-12-06 04:12:16 · answer #6 · answered by Erik L 2 · 6⤊ 2⤋
So, you've really sunk to promoting torture?
At what point does it just become a case of "us vs them" instead of right vs wrong? The fact that you no longer see or understand that there is a moral high-ground which includes not torturing people simply because it's barbaric and morally repugnant practice is disturbing.
People like you are the mirror image of terrorists/fanatics.
(BTW, I love all the talk comparing liberals to "Hitler, Communists, terrorists" etc. See, when people advocate the methods and practices of the Nazi's and Communists like torture, it actually makes those advocates just as morally bankrupt as those groups. That means that it's you guys, who want to be just like the Nazis, Communists, terrorists, etc., not the liberals criticizing torture.)
2007-12-06 04:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Probably because criminal suspects are just that, suspects.
If the police arrested you with no evidence, locked you in a cell and made you feel like you were drowning, for instance, to get a confession, would you say that was fair?
No?
Your argument makes no sense. Torture is not interrogation, it's terrorism on an individual scale.
You don't know any better than I do if someone is a terrorist.
2007-12-06 04:11:49 · answer #8 · answered by jonnyAtheatus 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Because the U.S signed the Geneva convention. We signed these treaties and now violate them. In turn, our military will suffer torture at the hands of enemy nations. It is about doing what's right, even in times of war.
2007-12-07 08:36:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
'Do not do unto others what you would not want them do unto you', would be a start. As what you refer to as 'Liberals' are defending the rule of law, not the terrorists.
I think your opinion would differ if the shoe was on the other foot.
2007-12-06 04:44:48 · answer #10 · answered by greentadpole 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋