This is when the authorities need to know something that is not forth coming. it is essential in the war on terror and in high profile cases, as, the truth will very important to the authorities. A while ago i suggested water boarding was not that bad. it is a shock to the system with no permanent scars, and with no real lasting mental impressions, but, maybe there is a better torture? if there is, what could it be? If we were to look at the human body, which all detainees have - people with hidden truths - then there is a great lot of nerves to exploit! if we were to tickle someone, that would get the truth out. simply stroking the nerves would make them tickled, but this is a bit too easy to resist. I know in the dark ages they used to keep people from sleeping as a form of torture. maybe this would work? How about something we all endure, but do hate the feeling of? maybe solitary confinement somewhere very uncomfortable? So, seeing as how it has lasting effects, then we should look elsewhere, yes? Maybe some good smells that are good for you, that you hate? how about boiling brussel sprouts nearby? i know one terrible smell is insects, so, if we were to boil insects near them, no real harm, just disgust, then there would be some truth telling?
I think the issue was not acknowledging these techniques as torture. They don't cause permanent physical damage to the subject, but that's a pretty low bar to judge torture by. Mental, emotional damage can stick to a person just like a scar can. I guess I would rather be water boarded than castrated or have my fingers cut off or be blinded and so on. The techniques, carried out by trained professionals who adhere to a strict regime, can be effective. If carried out pell mell by guards who have never been trained in their use and who have never worked in a prison environment, it is not just torture, its chaos.
What if they make a mistake and end up torturing someone who's innocent? And if this type of treatment ever does become more prevalent, don't you think that would result in a lot more deadly confrontations with police, if the suspect they are trying to arrest has reason to believe there is a possibility he could be subject to torture? When prisoners do not have any guarantees they will be treated humanely, that is going to create a lot more resistance when law enforcement tries to arrest people.
I would challenge anyone that does not believe water boarding is torture to allow me to water board their wife or daughter or find a pair and volunteer for a session yourself. I am sure we can adjust your attitude on the topic.
Some of these other "torture techniques" are not very pleasant either. U.S. arrested Canadian citizen and sent him to Syria to be tortured The man was kept in a windowless prison cell only 6 feet long and 3 feet wide for 10 months Torture-by-proxy U.S. sent other suspects to Syria to be tortured and interrogated after ordeal U.S. courts denied him the right to sue They had reason to believe the suspect was innocent
Sleep deprivation would be a big 'no'. Classic example of a practice that will result in false confessions. You deprive somebody of sleep long enough, and they will 'confess' to anything.
Non-physically damaging torture techniques including sleep depravation, water boarding, psychotropic drugs, time disorientation, etc... have been used for a long time. Generally with subjects that were intended to be traded back in prisoner exchanges. The CIA used to have all sorts of small covert prisons in Europe during the cold war. Some detainees spent years being shuffled from one place to another. Some were apparently innocent. Some disappeared completely as if they never existed. Torture and unauthorized detainment are nothing new. Publicly condoning them is. Using them as general practice is completely irresponsible.
It's not so much the method as it is the amount of people you can question. The French made use of this in Algiers by torturing everyone they could find who may have information they wanted.
above is an enhanced picture of a drug reservoir that has been surgically embedded into the skin. a small amount of highly concentrated drug with tiny microspheres is injected into the reservoir. it's activated with a high frequency sonic beam (even from a smartphone or small radio) that cause the spheres to vibrate and excrete the drug from the reservoir. currently, it's used in gay reparative therapy where they fill the reservoir with viagra and other drugs to try and force gay men to become bisexual or even to stop them from being gay. Such drug reservoirs can be used for terrorism to create, for example, manchurian candidate soldiers. for example, they could embed such reservoirs into the oral gums under teeth to generate excruciating teeth pain and various hypnotic drugs in other parts of the body. with the drugs working together and a source of hypnotic induction, the soldier is put to sleep, then given subtle sleep deprivation through dental pain, unless he agrees to change his thinking. in sleep, he is retrained to be a terrorist. when he wakes, he is told to remember none of it.
