One of numerous horrors found in Iraq were the meat-hooks and electrified bedframes found in police holding cells, no? I realize that no one here is advocating wholesale application of torture, but I'd fear that--even if it were sparingly used--we'd be permitting the thin edge of a very ugly wedge.
I'd have to side with Mary Anne, SDAI, and others who express grave concerns about the use of physical torture, or even the careful use of drugs. I admit it's a tough one, though...especially in cases where the victim hasn't been found and may still be alive, but the alleged perpetrator isn't talking.
That torture was permitted by the Baath party indicates--to me, anyway--that they didn't give a rat's behind about Iraqi society. As a result, they inflicted horrible wounds on that society. Is that a road we want to travel down, even if we only take one step?
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- Once you start doing that, no self-respecting garbage can will accept your body. Plus, it almost never gets the victim back alive. Plus, the guy has not been convicted yet. etc. (n/t)
- my vote
- A scifi example
- An unusual situation
- I think it would be more cruel to leave a victim abandoned somewhere.
- There is absolutely no evidence that anyone would be saved by allowing brutality to become ensconced in our legal system.
- And if the police have 10 suspects?
- I think it would be more cruel to leave a victim abandoned somewhere.
- re: A poll
- re: Never -- and Carlie Brucia's body has just been recovered . . .
- depends on what you call torture
- Torture