Bring on the redefinitions and the NewSpeak!
I think the reason heâs trying to normalize the practice again is that there are some in law enforcement who would love to have the use of it as an interrogation method.
I wish I was wrong, but as weâve seen the past few years, there are many in law enforcement that see themselves as soldiers against an enemy population.
âBut, weâve done it in the past,â Cotton responded. âAnd radio DJs volunteer for it, so I donât think something people volunteer for is torture.â
Tom Cotton is important to the world in that he reminds us that even Harvard grads can be stupid fucks.
This is a surprise? What would you expect Norman Bates to say on this subject?
Perhaps Mr. Cotton would like to undergo the âtechniqueâ to prove it. Maybe do it for his favorite charity. Iâm sure that other manâs man Mr. Hannity would join him with alacrity.
âBut, weâve done it in the past,â Cotton responded. âAnd radio DJs volunteer for it, so I donât think something people volunteer for is torture.â
Mancow volunteered for it, because he too thought it wasnât torture.
At least sending folks to The Hague is now back on the table.
This is your 2020 GOP nominee, if he beats Liz Cheney. The futures so bright I gotta wear #14 welderâs shades.
Cotton responded. âAnd radio DJs volunteer for it, so I donât think something people volunteer for is torture.â
I suppose Trump should consider naming Opie & Andy to jointly run the CIA.Yes. That DJ (Mancow) decided to have it done to him 12-14 times a day so he could be just like KSM. /s
The difference between Mancow and Cotton, of course, is that Cotton would never submit to it. If he did, he wouldnât last half as long as Mancow.
P.S. Mancow called it TORTURE.
Chris Hitchens did it, albeit in an un-realistically controlled environment, and he said it was torture. I suppose D.J.'s are made of stearnier stuff than regular authors.
Yes, I think all who wish to vote for it should try it for a least a few sessions and report back what a walk in the park it was⌠Then I will believe that it is not torture.
Notice in that picture theyâre not even doing it right.
âThere is no way any competent and knowledgeable attorney can say that waterboarding is legal under the Geneva Conventions, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or the Convention Against Torture,â retired Maj. Gen. Thomas Romig, a former Army judge told the Wall Street Journal in 2014 interview.
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Tom Cotton is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Edited to add:
âI know waterboarding is torture - because I did it myselfâ
As a former master instructor and chief of training at the U.S. Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School (SERE) in San Diego, I know the waterboard personally and intimately. Our staff was required to undergo the waterboard at its fullest. I was no exception.
I have personally led, witnessed and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people. It has been reported that both the Army and Navy SERE schoolâs interrogation manuals were used to form the interrogation techniques employed by the Army and the CIA for its terror suspects. What is less frequently reported is that our training was designed to show how an evil totalitarian enemy would use torture at the slightest whim.
Having been subjected to this technique, I can say: It is risky but not entirely dangerous when applied in training for a very short period. However, when performed on an unsuspecting prisoner, waterboarding is a torture technique - without a doubt. There is no way to sugarcoat it.
Malcolm Nance
Conspicuously few US Senators volunteer for it.
Yes. Had he actually been on an incline board it wouldâve lasted less than a second. And also note that they are doing it to him while making him as comfortable as possible.
I understand the Grande Inquisidor performed his âtasksâ with the same TLC.
And the cloth goes over the mouth. Very important.
He lasted all of what, 2âŚ3âŚseconds? Iâm not saying heâs a lightweight.
I hate when people call it âsimulated drowningâ. No. Itâs controlled drowning that they can stop.
Sorry, Tom Cotton, but you are less than a human being.
âBut the presidency is a tough job, and if youâre not willing to make those tough calls then you shouldnât seek the office. Donald Trumpâs a pretty tough guy, and I think heâs ready to make those tough calls."
So tough that he hides behind his Twitter account.