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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The more often Americans go to church, the
more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists,
according to a new survey.
More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54
percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is
"often" or "sometimes" justified. Only 42 percent of people who "seldom
or never" go to services agreed, according to the analysis released
Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to
say torture is often or sometimes justified -- more than six in 10
supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were
least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.
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basic point, though, is we should never under any circumstances allow
low-level people to administer torture. If torture is going to be
administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save
enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with
accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or
by a Supreme Court justice."
Alan M. Dershowitz, interview by Wolf Blitzer on CNN, March 4, 2003.
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That's why old time company men knew that you didn't give up the family jewels. That's how it's done. You just don't talk about it. Alas, the masculine virtues are not in fashion.
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"If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice."
ReplyDeleteThis is, of course, a tacit admission that torture DOES provide useful information and completely negates the argument that waterboarding and other forms of discomfort (hazing, annoying, boring) cannot provide humint of any value that couldn't be obtained by other means.
I don't think anybody ever questioned that torture can work, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and forced listening of Nancy Pelosi floor speeches. What Dershowitz acknowledeged was that in a "ticking bomb" situation, it was expected that all means be used, but only after authorization from the president, or a court justice. Under pressure from the left, Dershowitz later quibbled that post 9-11 wasn't a ticking bomb period, a condition, evidently, that only someone with his sagacity can determine exists. In short, when the left thinks their sorry asses are vulnerable, anything goes, but they have short memories and no sense of history. IMO.
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