tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post5201107301457095798..comments2024-01-10T17:36:15.040-07:00Comments on The Lippard Blog: If you think waterboarding isn't torture...Lippardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16826768452963498005noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-37584922473653004052007-11-07T12:37:00.000-07:002007-11-07T12:37:00.000-07:00[Excerpted from a longer post at Framed][M]emo to ...[Excerpted from a longer post at <A HREF="http://framed.typepad.com/framed/2007/11/waterboarding.html" REL="nofollow">Framed</A>]<BR/><BR/>[M]emo to anti-torture demonstrators: you do our cause no good at all by controlled namby-pamby simulations of waterboarding. You can't approach the pain and horror of the real thing, so what you wind up communicating is that it isn't all that bad. Cut it out.Diocletian Blobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16123658776492767660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-56134404289491238142007-11-04T17:13:00.000-07:002007-11-04T17:13:00.000-07:00here's a link for the story.here's <A HREF="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/03/waterboarding-abc-news-levin/" REL="nofollow">a link</A> for the story.Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-47719879674033841042007-11-04T15:10:00.000-07:002007-11-04T15:10:00.000-07:00I hope you caught the story of acting assistant At...I hope you caught the story of acting assistant Attorney General Levin undergoing waterboarding himself while attempting to determine its legality and concluding that it was indeed torture. Then Gonzales became AG and had him removed.<BR/><BR/>That there isn't a national furor over this is sad beyond words. I'm starting to understand what Bertrand Russell meant about stoicism being a philosophy born out of feeling helpless at the collapse of democracy.Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.com