Waterboarding

Should anyone be able to strap a potential informant “to a board with his feet above his head, his mouth and nose covered,[and pour water] over his face” (”Is Torture Effective”) in order to extract information or destroy “entire villages...to kill just a few enemies”("Napalm use in Vietnam")? Imagine being in one of these situations; on the other hand, imagine being saved from a deadly attack because of information given by a tortured prisoner or finally feeling safe because a dangerous…

There is a distinct difference between an interrogation and a set of interview questions. Sometimes, they are used interchangeably, but there is a specific feature distinguishing one from the other. Whether it is accusatory or not is what differentiates an interrogation from a set of interview questions. An interview is non-accusatory or, in other words, it does not blame or put guilt on the subject of the questions (Inbau, Reid, Buckley, & Jayne, 2013). Besides just being non-accusatory, an…

known methods of torture and they can be dated back to centuries before today. Marie- Monique Robin, a documentary filmmaker, reviews the history of torture and brings up how governments teach each other different torture techniques (Thornton). Waterboarding, for instance, is a technique when the suspect…

I’ve mentioned a couple times now innocent people being captured and tortured by the CIA. The number of innocent people detained by the CIA is, at least, 26. That doesn’t sound terribly bad, but it has to be remembered that the CIA detained and held “enhanced interrogations” on 115 suspected terrorists. Twenty-six is nearly a fifth of the terrorists they captured, but somehow, it gets worse. Some of the suspected terrorists were informants for the US government. The Senate Intelligence…

As a personal safe haven, the average American citizen desires the protection of their homes through the placement of security measures around their property. Some people place surveillance cameras and motion sensors around their houses and businesses to protect themselves from theft and unwelcome visitors. The surveillance cameras violate a citizen’s freedom of privacy for the safety of the citizen’s home because it watches the citizen without their permission. Similar to the telescreens in…

Strained positions for long hours, sleep deprivation and waterboarding, with the occasional punch or slap, may sound worth it in order to save thousands of innocent Americans lives from the ongoing war of terror. It is a known fact that the American government used the term “enhanced interrogation” loosely in order to cover up their questionable actions to get any little piece of information about any terrorist motives with torture. Enhanced interrogation has been described as systematic torture…

Clock is Ticking Tick…Tick…Tick…BOOM! The ticking of America’s clocks stopped while the world stood still. A cloud of smoke and the screams of terror start rising. People are running away and running into the debris. America is being attacked and is now in a state of panic. News crews from around the country are flooding in showing the act of terrorism, and people from Hawaii and Maine can tell anyone exactly what they were doing on that fatal day. That fatal day was September 11th, 2001. The…

Each and every government has their own way of controlling their citizens, some of the time, governments use excessive force to scare their citizens into compliance. There are many horror stories of governments torturing their citizens with methods of water boarding, caning, the death penalty, electric chairs, and taking away citizens rights to gun ownership as a punishment. With these methods governments are desensitizing their own citizens; making these controlling methods common and okay.…

If torture will be the only way to obtain information to prevent the detonation of the atomic bomb in Times Square , torture should be and most likely will be used. What is more important? Human rights terrorists or protecting the lives of our citizens? The Church does not accept torture, two main reasons are: one is human dignity , which prohibits using it in any case . The second is the dignity of the human body . But what to do if a terrorist staying in prison has valuable information about…

“I worked for George Bush. I’m proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did , that people didn’t like and- and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.” -Dick Cheney. Cheney had been in congress for six terms before running for vice-president with George Bush. He served for two terms with president Bush. Defense, energy use, and the Middle East he…