Quote:
Originally posted by gaijindabe
Please explain.
|
Debating whether America permits, as a matter of law, the torture of foreign "detainees" is not the same as asking me, as a person, whether I would take extraordinary measures to, say, save a building full of schoolchildren. Maybe I would, and then I would then turn myself into the authorities to face whatever consequences resulted from my activities.
Setting up a system whereby I can legally bring someone to a torture chamber and, under supervision of the CIA and my commanding officer, extract information using torture is not the same. Now I have American society, and the American legal system, in the room with me as I torture. I have a torture manual, I have guidelines and standards, I have government-issue torture devices. And I have the protection of the American people, the backing of the American people, for my heinous activities.