On Torture

April 21, 2009 By CJ
Posted in Uncategorized

Shut up! That’s right. I’m willing to bet money that none of you idjits out there complaining about “harsh interrogation techniques” or “torture” have never done an interrogation in your life. You’ve never had to sacrifice anything in their lives except two-ply toilet paper once or twice.

First of all, this false argument that torture doesn’t work – yeah, it’s false. If it didn’t work, it wouldn’t be used century after century.

Second, the techniques used by the United States military and intelligence agencies are NOT torture. It’s no different than how they’ve redefined the term “sexual assault”. It used to mean an ASSAULT of someone in a sexual manner. It involved rape, penetration, inappropriate touching, non-consensual sex, and child molestation. When this wasn’t occurring at levels high enough to get proper government funding, the term was redefined to include voyeurism and exhibitionism. That wasn’t good enough, so it was further defined to include yelling.

The same thing has happened with torture. Real torture, you see, doesn’t exist at the hands of this country. You will never find a prisoner having their fingernails pulled out, being forced to kneel on bamboo reeds, having extremities cut off, being skinned alive, or placed in an iron maiden. Since this real torture doesn’t exist, the left has had to redefine it. So, they decided that torture included such actions as waterboarding. When there weren’t enough incidents of that happening, liberals decided that we needed to redefine torture to include sleep deprivation, loud music, and standing for long periods of time. Now, we can’t even place harmless caterpillars in their cages or flush their holy books down toilets!

If this is torture, I’d like to turn my kids in IMMEDIATELY!! I can’t even describe the lack of sleep that raising three kids has caused me. Now that they’re moving into their teenage years, I’m assaulted daily with the same two songs over and over and over and over and…you get the point. The bottom line is that I’ve done interrogations, I’ve seen interrogations, and I’ve been interrogated. And while at SERE, I’ve been “tortured” over and over. As a matter of fact, I was beaten, slapped, sleep deprived, placed in a small confined box for days (which sucked thanks for my back injury), and other actions I won’t talk about.

The media is stoking the fires to get the Obama administration to begin charging the Bush administration with war crimes that don’t exist. At a press conference at the White House today with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, the media was fixated on this. Even when the subject of discussion had NOTHING to do with torture or harsh interrogation techniques, the media kept egging on the administration to “do something”. At one point, Gibbs read an Ode to Obama from the Canadian Prime Minister in response to a question about Vice President Cheney’s remarks yesterday, to which the media slipped and showed their true colors: “With 60 votes we can stop a filibuster.” Did you catch that “WE” in there?

But, this is nothing new. President Obama is just doing back on yet another of his promises to “look forward” instead of back. He is bowing to the extreme left of his party. It’s interesting that Obama changed his mind after Moveon.org sends out an email demanding he “appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute the architects of the Bush-era torture program” and claiming that “this isn’t about retribution or politics. It’s about accountability.” Accountability for what? For “horific” torture techniques like *gasp* “keeping detainees awake for 11 days straight”, “waterboarding” *the horror*, and “forcing prisoners into coffin-like boxes with insects” *make the bad man stop, mommy*.

The media and left in this country is going through great lengths to convince you, the American people, that none of these techniques work and that they elicit false confessions. Guess what? They don’t elicit any more false confessions than normal interrogations do. As a matter of fact, the kinder, gentler techniques of just asking questions or trying to get into the heads of the detainees also results in false statements. All of these techniques, whether direct questioning or “harsh” questioning, are all dependent upon the actual interrogator. It’s true that most good interrogators don’t even need the more harsh techniques because they can get information without it.

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