Re: Are Air Travelers Criminal Suspects?
"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, [email protected] wrote: > > Sorry, there's no equivalence there. > > Sure there is equivelence. One of the arguments for treating waterboard > as "not torture" after centuries of it being considered torture (please > note, up until the Bush aministration it was considered torture-and > America has put people to death for it) was that we would be putting all > those torturers in "harm's way" (they could be sued or go to jail) for > simply "doing their job." I am soooo not interested in the semantic debate over whether this or that technique fits under a dictionary definition of "torture". The only salient point here is that there is a huge, *huge* freaking difference between physically probing people suspected of committing mass murder and physically probing random civilians (to the point where prepubescent boys are being strip-searched in public). And yes, I know the TSA agents are just "doing their job". So? -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot