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'Enhanced interrogations' aren't just for Arabiacs anymore...

Discussion in 'Alley of Lingering Sighs' started by AMaster, Aug 27, 2007.

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    This is awesome, and by awesome I mean 'completely and totally [profanity]'.

     
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    That's not torture. Is my neighbour torturing me when he blasts music at 1am, preventing me from sleeping?
     
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    Uh, you aren't seriously comparing holding an allied, American whistleblower for 3 months and subjecting him to sleep deprivation and constant interrogations to your neighbor blasting his music at 1am (which you can make him stop doing by reporting him to your apartment complex, home-owners association, or the cops), are you?
     
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    TMH,
    try to be serious. Think of Paracelsus adage that everything is poison, depending on the dose. If you belittle isolation and blasting with noise as nothing you're kidding yourself about the nature of that treatment and the intent behind it.

    Just like forcing people into stress positions it is all about breaking down people's will to resist. That is the sole point behind it. There is a point behind sleep deprivation being banned in police interrogations. Guess why.
     
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    So my school is torturing me when I miss sleep while studying for exams?
     
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    No, TMH, because you're doing it willingly. And you're doing it because of the profit. And you're not isolated from other people (unless you want to). And your environment isn't hostile. And a hundred other reasons.
     
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    No. Only when they hold you for 3 months and subject you to daily interrogations while actively and purposely depriving you of sleep for days at a time.
     
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    [​IMG] :( My teachers are interrogating me every day, and YELL at me! :mad: Mean fellas :mad: I tell you! Whenever I fall asleep they wake me up! And then the bullying around: "Where's you're homework, where's you're homework!?" — I have heared it a thousand times. I have no choice too, I must go to this gulag they call school! THIS IS HELL :(

    [ August 28, 2007, 08:59: Message edited by: Ragusa ]
     
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    :lol: Good one Rag!

    @TMH, is your school in a prison cell? Do your neighbours have two 100W speakers in your ear? Do you pee in your pants while you're interrogated? I think not.
     
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    Heck, I hope not... But this might shed some light on the origin of TMH's more darwinist tendencies :) . While being nipped by a puppy and having lost a pound of flesh to a doberman might both qualify as a dog biting you, I dare say there is a slight difference. Same here.

    Anyway, back on the OP story - if that's true, it's beyond horrendous. Unholy hell, if that's what you get for doing the US government a favor or doing your duty, it gives some food for thought.
     
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    If they were performing in good faith and reporting illegal acts, they should be given medals, not tortured like that. I finally had time today to read the whole article. It's disgusting. If America truly believes that democracy and the rule of law is the best course of action, they should practice what they preach.
     
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    2 weeks and 11 posts and no one has pointed out that "Arabiac" isn't actually a real word. :)

    Sorry, I'll shut up.
     
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    And of course the link no longer works. Damn, the CIA got to ´em!
     
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    So, any further developments? With something like that out, one could expect that there'd be some understandable outrage.
     
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