Should suspected al-Qaeda members be tortured?

[gigi]

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to see these people suffer.....but deep down I have to answer no.

Jonathan Turley, a prominent law professor at George Washington University, countered that embracing torture would be "suicide for a nation once viewed as the very embodiment of human rights".

The above is why I feel the way I do. It will hurt America far more than it would hurt these fuckers. America would be letting them win...again. And for what? To appease a feeling of vengeance. [as far as what is being expressed on this board]

To say 'This will teach them' or 'Next time they might think twice' is naive. Let's look at 9/11. Did those men fear death? No. Their motives and beliefs were far stronger than any fear. That is the scariest part about these morons. The anticipation of torture would only strenghten their resolve, not chip away at it.

does he mean before or after we were voted off the UN Human Rights Commission? or allowed women to vote? or abolished slavery? or allowed black people to go to an all white school?

Allowing women to vote, abolishing slavery etc etc are ALL what makes America 'the very embodiment of human rights". (I can't comment on being voted off the UN HRC...I plead ignorance there)

It's very similar to the privacy issues that are so apparent in the news these days. Do you give up the personal freedom that has made America what it is to feel secure?

Similarly, does America negate a century of fighting for human rights in order to attain vengeance for a horrible atrocity it was the target of?

People on the board seem to be confusing vengeance with extracting information from these prisoners which is SUPPOSE to be the reason for the torture. Being that those two men died, and the US has admitted to killing them, it seems they [the torturers] as well, are somewhat confused with their objective.



Last edited by gigi at Mar 7 2003, 11:02 AM