thediastema's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geneva WHO-cords? I caught some of this dialogue today in between morsels of my afternoon-nap-with-TV-blaring. (Why yes, yes, I am eighty.) Controversy is starting to brew: when we suspect a guy has amazing dirt on terrorist organizations and we already have him detained in the bitter tundra of the Caribbean, is it justifiable to torture him into spilling beans? I mean, we're the US, the only smart country in the world,1 the most benevolent entity in the universe,2 renown bastion of good form and above-average literacy.3
Now, apparently, according to some pact on which our forefathers pinky-swore,4 we don't employ torture as a means of obtaining hot terrorist gossip. It would be hypocritical, right? I mean, you're denouncing fundamentalists because they have a slight penchant for voicing their political aims through terror, you want to keep the moral high ground and not terrorise them back. What's sauce for the goose will just make the gander uppity because he'll think you're accusing him of being a fairy.5
So, there are a few specific tactics that we consider "off limits":
There are a few things we can get away with, like forcing people to stay awake until they talk, filling them up on coffee and making them talk before they can hit the urinals, blaring loud music. If you ask me, the last of these tactics could very well get the job done with a minimal amount of mess, provided the guys used the intro music from this site on a constant loop. I just played it for myself about fifteen times over, and I'm not afraid to betray my spy organization anymore. I am, however, sick of typing. ~ETK 03:01 - 05 March, 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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