I think people should know by now that I am all out against torture. However, I do not think forcing people to listen to one kind of music is torture. Otherwise, I have been tortured by my girlfriend so many times in my car!

This is why liberals are pathetic in politics. They really cannot push their message across. Even when you are agreeing with their points, they can spoil the argument for you. That is what happens when you stretch the truth, it becomes nonsense.

Water-boarding is torture. Sleep deprivation is torture. Drilling next to the head is torture. Shoving a baseball down people’s throat is torture. Sell that! Especially shoving a baseball down people’s throat. Any American can understand that that is torture!

But making people listen to REM and AC/DC; that is not torture, it is heaven! Not so heavenly is to be forced to listen to Sesame Street, but that is not torture . Ask any mum of toddlers!

Lets reverse the roles for a minute. If Al Qaeda had kidnapped our soldiers, do you think that the victims would be worried about loud Islamic prayers or Arabic music. The worst thing that could happen is that the victim would be traumatized with these music when they are freed. At best, they could start appreciating Arabic music!

Liberals have really got this all wrong. They must stop selling non torture as torture. They are just backfiring on their agenda. For example, they cannot go out and say that threatening to rape Guantanamo inmate’s families is torture. The police do that all the time. They cannot say that sleeping with a caterpillar is torture. That show us that the inmate is pathetic, not being tortured. Neither can they say that listening to REM is torture.

This is just going to make people that are undecided against you weak kneed arguments. Anybody with a brain would know that their arguments in the previous paragraphs are false. This just undermines people who share the same view as me that torture should not be allowed by our government would have their efforts undermined by stupid argument in the paragraphs above.

In addition to this, the bands whose music is being used for this “music torture”, bands like Pearl Jam and REM, want to know if this is true. I can understand why this is so. This is because these bands have a global appeal. They do not want to be demonized in the Middle East. It would make they lose some of their appeal over there, which also means a financial loss to them.

For God’s sake, lets stop this silly season! This is really stupid. We should not be pursuing garbage issues like this. We got a lot on our minds to think about, health-care, the environment, the national debt, JOBS, economy amongst others. We should not be bothered about what music terrorists are listening to!

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Fresh new revelations have surfaced of the means of “enhanced interrogation technique” (EIT). First, I would go through it one by one and I would give my own opinion of it.

Death gestures:

The interrogators would put a gun to their head and threaten to shoot them. In some cases they use a drill and then it would threaten to drill a hole in their head till they die. There are also mock executions staged to scare inmates. This is reported and is common knowledge so in South Asian countries like India and Pakistan, though their leaders do not take it as official policy.

Torture rating 5/10 : I am 50/50 on this. While I do think that this would do any physical harm, hence not so controversial, like say water-boarding or banging heads on mattressed walls. So on that ground I do not think that it is torture. But on the other hand, it is illegal by law and it is by law considered as torture.

Effectiveness ratings 3/10 : Let me put it this way, if you were held at gunpoint by a robber, you would give the robber your valuables if you have them. For that to work, the robber needs to know that you have goods to give. If the robber does not know that you have goods to give, the robber has to threaten you. For the threat to work, reality has to set in. That is why the mock executions come in.

However, terrorists are not be that stupid. If you do not get much out of this the first time, you would get it out the second and third time that this is done. When inmates realize that no one is missing amongst their numbers, they would know that it was just mock executions and that it does not work. So hence my rating of 3/10; it could only work for a while and once the secret is out, even amongst terror suspects, the method would not work at all.

Rape threat :

Interrogators would go about threatening to rape inmates mothers, daughters, wives or girlfriends.

Torture rating : 1/10. I do not classify this as torture at all. Deceit is always part of police procedure. That being said how sad is it that we are resorting to threatening other people with rape. Come on, that is rubbish and wrong.

Effectiveness rating: 1/10. This is pathetic. Only wimps would break under such allegations.

Shoving baseballs down the throat :

Interrogators would first threaten to shove a baseball down inmates throat and could, and did, do it if necessary.

Torture rating : 9/10. Shoving anything down the throat is torture. That is pure and simple. I do not think that it can be debatable at all whether it is like how it was done with water-boarding. It does cause harm and it is by far illegal to do so by any means.

Effectiveness rating : 2/10. This is a 100% form of torture. And as torture has shown in the past, it does not work. Torture would produces everything under duress. Hence, you would not know what is said is right or wrong. It was wrong assumptions made by torture that led the world to believe that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That led to a loss of more than 4000 American lives and many Iraqi ones.

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I am against torture. Water-boarding and all other forms of it I am against. The US Field Army Manual is the international standard on interrogation techniques and we have gone back to that. The Obama administration has already closed down Guantanamo Bay.

Then why is it that the liberals keep on gunning back on topics like this? Is this really something that is of extreme importance to America now? Why is it that the liberals are so angry that the President intends to immunize whatever CIA agents did under the Bush administration?

What is in the past is in the past. I do not want this practice of one administration going after the previous ones. There were many Bush administration officials that wanted to go after President Clinton for pardoning a person for tax evasion hours before his Presidency ended. Should they still go after President Clinton for doing that?

It would also not be fair to the CIA operative that were conducting the torture to be prosecuted. This was what they were ordered to do. It was not against the law for them to do so then. The law was changed when the Bush administration panicked after 9/11. They are NOT guilty. I really cannot understand why the far left is going after people that carried them out.

Talking about people that wrote it, the Spanish government is in news again. Just 24 hours after Bill O’Reilly claimed success on the Spanish, the judge that was presiding the case now want the case to go on. I can’t help but say, I WAS RIGHT. It was not the lawyer, it is this judge that want the publicity. He is the judge that went after Pinochet.

Hey Spaniards, don’t you have enough problems yourself? Aren’t you having 18% unemployment paying migrants to emigrate? Doesn’t Spain got anything better to do like trying to solve their economic woes? Why didn’t you guys go after the Bush Administration when they were in power?

Look, I agree that the Spanish got a case in two of the six people that were wanted. But my point to them and the liberals is this : Lets solve more pressing problems now. Lets solve things like the economy, AIDS, climate change and terrorism. Why are we so bothered about things that happen in the past.

People should understand that spot that the President’s administration is in. On one hand, a bloc of the group that elected them to White House are angry. On the other hand they are the new bosses of these people. They need the CIA’s support to function as head of the CIA. How would you feel when your boss is going about firing people that were working for our ex-boss.

Secondly, when is America ever going to control their right wing and their left wing groups? Wasn’t that what the President was elected for? Why are Americans behaving like Red America or Blue America rather than the United States of America? Everybody has disagreements. Some can even be in the own family. But why is it that Conservatives think that America is a country based on Conservative values while Liberal Americans think that America is founded of the progressive mentality and thought?

America was never founded on conservative or liberal thought, it was founded on an American one. It does not mean that when the founding fathers fought a war based on tax that they were conservatives. Neither does it mean that they were progressive because they separated church from state.

Liberals must do their part for America and let us learn from the past. Lets not go after past by letting go of our future.