05-05-2009, 08:16 PM | #21 | |
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So back to my original question: Where is waterboarding explicitly prohibited by US law? If all we have here is the vague language of "severe" or "extreme" or "harmful" or whatever, there is going to be reasonable differences of opinion.
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Mike, I get it that you don't agree with waterboarding. That's an entirely reasonable interpretation of the torture statute. In my opinion, rational minds can conclude either way on that specific issue. However, to assert that what Bybee has done is worthy of excommunication is completely unreasonable. |
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Lastly: I grant that we all make mistakes. I grant that repentance is part of being in good stead. In Bybee's case, however, with years to think about what he did, and years to consider what happened as a result of what he did, and having looked at the fact that others have called him wrong, that his policy has been rejected, that he knows prior case law, that he knows of things like the Khmer Rouge, he says "I WAS RIGHT." He is dragging the church through the mud, again and again, as it is repeated again and again how he is LDS. Last edited by MikeWaters; 05-05-2009 at 08:39 PM. |
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Next, we should answer the question of who should be prosecuted in the military for waterboarding our own soldiers as a part of training.
And let's find that SOB who waterboarded Christopher Hitchens. And if Keith Olbermann waterboards Sean Hannity, I expect to see him arrested and maybe executed too.
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Again we see religion does not equal ethics, in Tex's juvenile display of misunderstanding. |
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I think anyone who drills a hole through another person's hand, regardless of whether it was voluntarily, would still be arrested and charged. Your condition doesn't hold for many more "traditional" forms of torture.
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So what about someone who puts a hole into people's tongues. Is that torture, Tex? Labia? |
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