It is apparent to me from this video that this technique, much like the false electrocution scenario, tortures through creating fear, not through anything that could be remotely described as true bodily harm. Perhaps this is the hair that is split to determine what is an “enhanced” torture technique? Torture by terror, not by beatings or pain infliction… Even so, I am against this technique. Though it may be a stretch to so analogize, I liken this to the robber (rapist, kidnapper, etc.) who uses a toy or model gun instead of the real thing. The victims are still forced to comply under the fear of death or of great bodily harm. The robber uses such as the false weapon is cheaper to acquire, still exacts the same effect (fear and control) and intended results, and provides a legal loophole should he be captured by law enforcement (there was no intent to cause death or bodily harm, in spite of the obvious assault).

That aside, it reminds me of “Chinese water torture”. Perhaps it is a variant. Note the term includes the word “torture”, and that this technique was feared, despite the seemingly innocuous dripping of water upon the victim… there is no threat of drowning, choking, etc. yet torture it remains.

My previous questions still stand.

This is coming from the guy who calls Obama a secret Muslim.

“It’s absolutely torture.”

If you can watch this without getting queasy or setting off your panic button, there is something wrong. Those of you sitting in Cheney’s camp insisting this isn’t torture, one of your own had the stones to put his money where his mouth was.

Now imagine being water boarded over 200 times. Sounds like after 6 seconds Mancow was ready to tell anyone, anything.

1) Torture should never be used under any circumstances
or
2) The needs of the many outweigh the principles of the few

I’d still like to hear what we collectively consider “torture” to be… anyone care to take a stab at a definition?

I am not accountable for the actions of others. I will not be judged by who kills someone. If I was given a hypothetical where I would have to either kill my wife or my son, I would kill neither, and thier blood is on the hands of those who forced the situation.

To think torturing some will allow us to win this war is folly. We will never win this war, for with each torture we create 10 more enemies. We are creating an army, and the more we rage against it, the bigger it will become.

I believe our only chance is with justice and mercy. Torture is not justice, it is cruelty.

ACTS 25:6 “And when he had remained among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought. 7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood about and laid many serious complaints against Paul, which they could not prove, 8 while he answered for himself, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything at all.”
9 But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and there be judged before me concerning these things?”
10 So Paul said, “I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you very well know. 11 For if I am an offender, or have committed anything deserving of death, I do not object to dying; but if there is nothing in these things of which these men accuse me, no one can deliver me to them.”