Re: Canada puts U.S., Israel on torture watchlist

Years ago I watched the Stanford Prison Experiment,
actually a couple of times just to make sure I was
integrating it right...it made me doubt if humans
could maintain boundaries when they are turned loose
on other humans...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

I watched the British "Guidebook to Guantanamo" a
few times too and would challenge anyone to watch
it and agree that torture is an acceptable way to
treat prisoners of war. Especially when the prisoners
are most often not even authenticated but have been
rounded up in fishing expeditions and collected by
bounties offered others to turn in "enemies". Too
often this tactic was used to turn in anyone the
person collecting the bounty had a grudge toward etc.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7490/543?ijkey=d8eb20caec48139689dfe6...

If you get a chance to watch this reality show, I
would encourage you to decide for yourself, since
it is as if you are a fly on the wall.

If we allow torture of prisoners to this degree,
where will it stop?? We taser and kill people now,
and ask questions later...what can you expect when
your local law enforcement begins torturing civilians??
I have no doubt that the information could produce
confessions of any sort under the circumstances that
the kinds of torture that other countries are basing
their opinion of us on would produce...it would not
necessarily mean that the person is guilty, or that
the information they give is correct...just that torture
is effective in breaking a person and they will resort
to saying whatever it takes to make it stop.

blessings,
Zoe

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