So when it comes right down to it, while I think we can safely say that Jesus would
not waterboard His enemies, this does not mean that in a sinful and chaotic world, human governments should not.
Why
not waterboard converts instead?
As you said, Jesus wouldn't waterboard His enemies.
Not exact matches
Pompeo has said that
waterboarding does
not constitute torture and has pushed for more leeway for domestic surveillance programs.
But this is a much different question than whether or
not governments should
waterboard enemies...
Hitchens had
not believed it was torture, but because that was an uninformed opinion, he had himself
waterboarded.
From your post, it sounds like you think that those holding power shouldn't care about the Bible's teachings while «on the job», or
waterboard and torture and gut social programs all week long and sing and pray on Sundays.
If Mukasey is opposed to
waterboarding because it is «ineffective,» he has little to lose by saying so (and it's surprising that he hasn't).
I would add that death by drowning is a torturous and cruel way to take a life; were it
not, we wouldn't blink at
waterboarding (then again, perhaps you don't).
They didn't need psychotherapy to recover from years of
waterboarding and food deprivation tactics opposed on them to take hold of a dangerous idea.
I find it quite interesting in the current debate about
waterboarding and «enhanced interrogation techniques» that many of the same people who are condemning the practice of
waterboarding as a means to learn information about what our nation's enemies are planning, are the same people who, after 9 - 11, demanded to know why our nation's intelligence did
not know that the 9 - 11 terrorist attack was coming.
I absolutely guarantee that if our country had
not used the techniques it did to learn information that it did through techniques like
waterboarding, and if another terrorist attack had occurred like the one on 9 - 11, the same people who are calling for an investigation into
waterboarding today would instead be calling for an investigation into why our intelligence community failed to uncover this terrorist plot.
So if you agree the
waterboarding is
not something Jesus would do then what about an eternity in hell?
by
waterboarding, or keeping people awake for a couple of days is
NOT torture.
Where I part company with Lauritzen is where he suggests that in a democracy it is acceptable, after losing the battle to frame the law» the Senate having
not once but twice rejected legislation to criminalize
waterboarding as torture» to try to prevail on professional disciplinary authorities to punish those who choose, for reasons just as conscientiously held as his own, to follow a law he finds objectionable.
MI5's former head Eliza Manningham - Buller did
not know about the
waterboarding of 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed until 2007, she has claimed.
He didn't quite get why I thought it would be entertaining to
waterboard him.
Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.) on Tuesday said that he would
not be supporting President Donald Trump's CIA director nominee Gina Haspel because he is «
not a huge fan of
waterboarding.»
Pelosi has been under fire this week for conflicting statements she made on whether or
not she was briefed by the CIA about so - called «enhanced interrogation techniques,» such as
waterboarding, being used on terror suspects.
Dance; 18 19 Year Old; Denmark sex tube Plumper; White; German hd Hardcore; Uncut The current debate over
waterboarding may be new, but the practice is
not.
Just to make it clear, this isn't an «entertainingly» bad movie — halfway through the first sketch, I was seriously contemplating whether being
waterboarded might be more fun than «Movie 43,» a sure bet for coaxing information from prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Scenes of torture, such as one involving
waterboarding, don't effectively capture the suffering and agony that must be going on, and some of the fight scenes alternate between making nearly impossible things look easy and making easy things, particularly against «boss» bad guys, look like they could go on forever.
The best I can say is that they don't actually include
waterboarding as part of the ticket price.
The bad: Attorney General Eric Holder announced this afternoon that the CIA officials who used
waterboarding on three «high - level detainees» in 2002 and 2003 will
not be prosecuted.
The former U.S. attorney general's refusal to condemn
waterboarding demonstrates that he does
not reflect the school's values, they assert.