What Would Make You Allow Torture? Imagine that someone close to you was in imminent danger and the only solution involved having police use torture to extract information from a suspect in custody. Would you agree or not? While torture remains a divisive topic with many countries around the world authorizing its use, international human rights codes and the legal codes of most countries provide comprehensive legal protections against torture under any circumstances.
Public opinion polls tend to be consistent in showing that only 34 percent of people worldwide actual endorse the use of torture though the numbers vary from country to country. Still, despite the consensus that torture is both immoral and ineffective, both as a means of punishment and as a way of gaining information, controversy still surrounds its use. But are there circumstances that would cause people who might ordinarily reject torture to accept its use? These results closely matched previous research studies conducted by Houck and her colleagues. CIA Torture Was Unnecessary, Senate Report To Conclude. By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee report will conclude that the CIA's use of harsh interrogation after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks yielded no critical intelligence on terrorist plots that could not have been obtained through non-coercive methods, U.S. officials familiar with the document said. Foreshadowing the impending release of a report expected to suggest that the "enhanced" techniques were unnecessary and also to accuse some CIA officers of misleading Congress about the effectiveness of the program, President Barack Obama said on Friday that the CIA "tortured some folks.
" He had banned the practices soon after taking office in 2009. Officials said the Senate Intelligence Committee was unlikely to release the report to the public without some additional review. "A preliminary review of the report indicates there have been significant redactions. Why Solitary Confinement Is The Worst Kind Of Psychological Torture. I see a lot of comments that say that they deserve this. Let me explain in simple words -> Isolating members from society, normal rights and freedom (freedom to step out of a boundary, to make a job to earn a living, etc) is punishment. Solitary confinement is torture. Torture is not equal to punishment. Torture is revenge.Torture is crime. Torture will cause harmful effects that will lead to crime.Many of these men/women will be free again.
They will more likely commit crime again if they are tortured.They will not commit crime again if they are punished. More crime = more tax money for building institutions/infrastructure and more chances for corrupt men to hog tax money for their own needs.Torture = more chances for corrupt men to hog tax money for their own needs. BRAZIL: TORTURE TECHNIQUES REVEALED IN DECLASSIFIED U.S. DOCUMENTS. From "one of the most detailed reports of torture ever declassified by the US government. " Washington, DC, July 8, 2014 – The Brazilian military regime employed a "sophisticated and elaborate psychophysical duress system" to "intimidate and terrify" suspected leftist militants in the early 1970s, according to a State Department report dated in April 1973 and made public yesterday. Among the torture techniques used during the military era, the report detailed "special effects" rooms at Brazilian military detention centers in which suspects would be "placed nude" on a metal floor "through which electric current is pulsated.
" Some suspects were "eliminated" but the press was told they died in "shoot outs" while trying to escape police custody. "The shoot-out technique is being used increasingly," the cable sent by the U.S. The records range in date from 1967 to 1977. Declassification Diplomacy. This intelligence cable, sent by the U.S. U.S. Torture Permanently Damages Normal Perception of Pain. TAU researchers study the long-term effects of torture on the human pain system. Israeli soldiers captured during the 1973 Yom Kippur War were subjected to brutal torture in Egypt and Syria. Held alone in tiny, filthy spaces for weeks or months, sometimes handcuffed and blindfolded, they suffered severe beatings, burns, electric shocks, starvation, and worse. And rather than receiving treatment, additional torture was inflicted on existing wounds.
Forty years later, research by Prof. “The human body’s pain system can either inhibit or excite pain. Even forty years after their release, prisoners of war continue to suffer from dysfunctional pain perception and regulation. A painful legacy The study focused on 104 combat veterans of the Yom Kippur War. The ex-POWs exhibited diminished pain inhibition (the degree to which the body eases one pain in response to another) and heightened pain excitation (the degree to which repeated exposure to the same sensation heightens the resulting pain). Pope Francis and Argentina's "Dirty War": What He Knew. While the world has generally welcomed the Catholic Church's selection of the Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as pope, one large and dark question hangs over his ascension: As the head of the Jesuit order during Argentina’s last dictatorship, was he complicit with the military regime that kidnapped, tortured, and murdered thousands of its citizens?
Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, has rarely spoken about his own role in what's known as the "Dirty War," during which at least 9,000 people were forcibly disappeared. But in 2010, he appeared as a witness in the criminal trial of eighteen officers who had worked at the notorious Naval Mechanics School, where the country's military junta detained political prisoners—including a pair of Jesuit priests who'd been kidnapped shortly after the regime took power in a 1976 coup. Bergoglio's 2010 testimony offers his take on events. Getting Away With Torture.
The 8-to-3 ruling by the full United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned an important ruling last year by a three-judge panel of the same court, which held that two Americans who say they were tortured by American military forces in Iraq could sue former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for violating their constitutional rights. That ruling relied on a landmark 1971 ruling by the Supreme Court known as Bivens, under which government officials could be held accountable for the intentional mistreatment of American citizens, even if that conduct happened in a war zone.
Reversing that decision, the full court’s majority incorrectly joined the Fourth Circuit and the District of Columbia Circuit in rejecting damage suits against American officials based on torture claims. But its ruling was much broader and a lot worse. The court held that all military personnel are exempt from civil liability for breaching civilians’ rights. Mr. Felicia Garcia Suicide: 15-Year-Old Jumps In Front Of Train After Bullying; Posts Final Tweet. A bullied teen's last tweet revealed her despair from relentless teasing two days before she jumped in front of a train in New York City.
Felicia Garcia, 15, was reportedly tormented by her peers at Tottenville High School, who teased her about sexual encounters with football players, police sources told the New York Daily News. On Wednesday, Garcia killed herself in front of classmates at a Staten Island train station. Her friends believe that Garcia's final Twitter post on Monday showed that bullying had become intolerable. I cant, im done, I give up— felicia garcia (@feliciagarcia97) October 23, 2012 "I cant, im done, I give up," she tweeted. The New York Times reports that Garcia went through hardship throughout her young life. But bullying at school apparently was the final straw.
"Kids are saying she had sex with some guys from the football team at a party after the game," Garcia's friend, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the Daily News. Report: Ukraine Trains Dolphins With Friggin' Pistols on Their Heads | Danger Room. A mine-seeking U.S. Navy dolphin chills out before a snack. Photo: Navy Killer dolphins with knives and pistols attached to their heads. It might sound crazy, but that’s reportedly one element of the Ukrainian navy’s restarted marine mammal program.
The program reportedly includes training dolphins to search for mines and marking them with buoys. Largely, using dolphins for military purposes is no secret. Now they’ll be trained to kill, allegedly. Rumors about killer dolphins have also been directed at the U.S. But whether the Ukrainians are attaching pistols to the dolphins’ heads — that’s a little iffy. Other non-lethal aspects of the program sound similar to the mainstream U.S. The U.S. also has the Shallow Water Intruder Detection System, which uses a sea lion equipped with a spring-loaded clamp that can be attached to a diver’s legs. Finally, there’s a big risk in arming dolphins, as they could easily become a danger to your own side.
The Bush Administration’s Oft-Repeated (and Now Challenged) Waterboarding Claims. For many years, Bush administration officials have said that the CIA waterboarded only three terror suspects. Despite nearly endless revelations and investigations about the U.S.'s treatment of detainees, there has never been evidence contradicting those claims. But that changed earlier this month. Human Rights Watch recently released a report [1] detailing the accounts of 14 Libyan men who claim they were detained and, in some cases, subject to harsh interrogations by the U.S. before being transferred back to Libyan prisons, where they also faced abuse. One man, Mohammed Al-Shoreoiya, provided a detailed account [2] of being waterboarded "many times" while in U.S. custody in an Afghan prison between 2003 and 2004.
None of the men's accounts could be confirmed, but as the New York Times noted [3], the detainees did not seek out Human Rights Watch, and their descriptions of their treatment, including waterboarding, are consistent with CIA procedural documents that have been made public.