After viewing someone actually being "waterboarded" via tape, you will then know, understand and hear different sides of the debate, being bounced about in the public eye. As I did back in the '90s, actually being a witness for a Virginia execution, this Socratic thinker likes to think deeper than the average Yogi Bear on national issues. I was a "witness for the condemned" in the '90s in order to think and speak semi-intelligently. And would NOT like to be a witness again! You can read a paper I wrote for a Virginia/Charlottesvile magazine on what I saw, felt and surmised by "googling" to Ron Squire Steffey..."Witness for The Condemned."
1) the person is handcuffed and often shackled...laid down face up...cloth is placed over his face...water is dripped or poured into cloth.
2) when they breathe and/or asked quuestions, the person breathes in water..water is also dripped and/or poured onto his chest. This volunteer that I watched in the video lasted for 24 minutes of "interrogation" before he shouted "stop!"
3) "Coercive interrogation"....?
4) "It was horrible!...I felt like I was gonna drown. The guys around me, waterboarding, were in total control of what I could do or not do." (comments from person on tape.)
5) Point: "We're at war! War that someone else declared upon us!" During war, measures for protecting the homeland, America, must be in place?
6) Point: "How do we deal with terrorists? They want to KILL US!!!!
7) Point: "It was a "torture warrant" signed by the President?"
8) Point: Accountibility?...who along the line was accountible and to whom?
9) U.S. Senator John McClain: "It's not about who they are, it's about who we are!"
10) The crawling caterpillar...inside a box with the person...torture?
11) Sleep depravation...torture? Did it work? Did "they" keep us, as a nation, safe from anothe 9/11 for nearly 8 years?
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NOW, the next step to pondering this delemma is........(more)
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