[Vision2020] Some thoughts on terrorists and torture.

[Ralph Nielsen]

Waterboarding is not a frat party game. It was done by the Spanish  
Inquisition to make innocent people confess to crimes they had  
already been found guilty of. Confession, you know, is a Christian  
sacrament that is necessary to keep you from going to hell when you  
die. However, the crime of heresy was so horrible that the only  
suitable penance, another Christian sacrament, was to be barbecued  
alive in an "auto da fe" (Act of Faith). Then your soul went to heaven.

Ralph Nielsen


I believe that we all know by now that waterboarding isn't repeated  
dunking in water -- that's a wild pool party, perhaps, or the "frat  
boy pranks" that Limbaugh speaks of.  Waterboarding is intended to  
bring someone to the brink of drowning while making them believe that  
they are already.

Civilized nations don't do that.  I'd like to believe we are one.

Keely

From: idahotom at hotmail.com
To: lfalen at turbonet.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:49:23 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Some thoughts on terrorists and torture.

Roger falen stated:

"I am not sure what all water boarding consists of. If it is nothing  
more than repeated dunking, I am not sure that it is. I would defer  
to John McCain on this."



Which John McCain are you deferring to, Roger?  The Roger McCain that  
was against torture or the John McCain that approved of it?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDmBTmYhZ1E



Waterboarding demonstration:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlLfRCkZuxQ
Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho