Getting information at any cost
Alan Dershowitz Wants 'Torture Warrants'. Plastic::Politics::Law: The right to remain silent? When it comes to accused terrorists, Dersh prefers the right to be beaten with a rubber hose. [Plastic: Most Recent]
Sometimes, even the "bad guys" know that physical torture won't get you what you want/need, as Nice Guy Eddie from Resevoir Dogs will tell you:
If you fucking beat this prick long enough, he'll tell you he started the goddamn Chicago fire. Now that don't necessarily make it fucking so!
Can you imagine Ashcroft dancing around a bound and gagged John Walker Lindh with Stealers Wheel's 'Stuck in the Middle with You' playing in the background? A creepy grin oozes across his face as he douces Lindh in gasoline and then grabs his straight razor. "I don't give a good fuck what you know or don't know, I'm going to torture you anyway," Ashcroft explains to the helpless Lindh.
Why, oh why would you use torture when there are more effective ways of getting information from somebody? Why don't you use that NASA brain scanner instead?
My dad loves that song, never saw "Reservoir Dogs". He always wonders why I cringe whenever I hear that song.
Alan Dershowitz sure knows how to stand in the middle. Have to give him some credit for being so practical.
'Course, being practical doesn't raise us above the other practical animals, like slugs, trout, wolves and ducks.
Sure wish I knew how to settle these sort of complex debates.
I say we should torture Dershowitz until he confesses to ghost writing Norman Schwarzkopf's It Doesn't Take A Hero.