Sen. Kit Bond: Waterboarding Is Like 'Swimming'
Yesterday on PBS's Newshour, host Gwen Ifill asked Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO)
whether waterboarding constitutes torture. Bond replied that the technique
is actually more like "swimming":
GWEN IFILL: Do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes
torture?
SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming,
freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some
of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that's beside the
point. It's not being used.
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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/
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There is another reaction the the evil frequently engender in us: confusion.
[...] The evil are "the people of the lie," deceiving others as they build
layer upon layer of self-deception.
People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck
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The sanity of (Adolf) Eichman is disturbing. We equate sanity with a sense
of justice, with humaneness, with prudence, with the capicity to love and
understand other people. We rely on the sane people of the world to preserve
it from barbarism, madness, destruction. And now it begins to dawn on us
that it is precisely the *sane* ones who are the most dangerous.
Raids on the Unspeakable
Thomas Merton
He was found guilty on all counts, sentenced to death and hanged at Ramleh
Prison, May 31, 1962.
A fellow Nazi reported Eichmann once said "he would leap laughing into the
grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience
would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/eichmann.htm
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