How Can CNN Even Ask The Question

Today's survey:

"Is torture ever justified during interrogation?"

Have we become so inhuman that the question can even be asked?

www.cnn.com

people who said yes :eyes: :scared:




Peace? :hippie: :smoke: :freak:

human scum

Created: Monday, May 03, 2004, at 15:26:56 EDT
Is torture ever justified during interrogation?

Yes 42% 1245 votes

No 58% 1731 votes

Total: 2976 votes


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...fighting men and women to commit war atrocities?

that is why they keep showng the photos

That is why we need the fairness act back

i think alot of people can say yes to torture if information extracted actually saved lives, conversely you will not usually see these people come to the same defense for terrorism, say with a terrorist act you could eventually save lives would people approve of this? what you don't want to save lives? you must be a commy.

just a thought, i am totally against torture if our intentions is to maintain the "moral highground", the ends don't justify the means.

most people will endorse anything if the question requires that "anything" will result in "over all good".

"when did you stop beating your wife?" sean hannity style all the way.

people will assume that the torture is going to produce good or why would it be happening.




edit: the question has changed

Do you think the suspected abuse of Iraqi prisoners is:
A widespread systemic problem?
A number of isolated incidents?


oh, i have cnn page set to international version. that explains it.

:puke:

Under very rare and limited circumstances, however.

Who decides? There's the rub.
Perhaps the Geneva Convention?

I'm leaving work and my access to the internet, now.
I hope someone else gets on here and challenges you on this statement.

has made them lose their humanity

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?39

(in truth, sometimes not even then)

Of course, this disqualifies Imperial Amerika, where we are still 98% free but the 2% is the 2% that holds up the rest.

As always, Tyranny for those not of the Ruling Class will begin once the fully power of the nation is finished being sezied and unchecked.

Look out, then!

What's worse...look at the answers!

That means 43% of Americans think US troops should be tortured if captured.

My god, you wouldn't think even hardcore freeper assholes would approve of torture.

Plus, it's been proven time after time that torture doesn't work.

"It can't happen to me"


A more appropriate question would be:

"Is it ever justified for you to be tortured during interrogation?"

Freepers know they'll never join up, so they know they are safe from torture.

However, most of them at least CLAIM to support the troops.

It's beyond me how it's supporting the troops to send them ill-prepared into a poorly planned invasion of a hostile country. But that's just me.

:wtf:

We have truly gone insane..........

And yes, I agree that questions like this do work to "innoculate" the public to the idea of torture being justifiable. Abominable.

*Shakes head*

If a thug admitted to having an innocent locked up for ransom somewhere that they will die soon and won't disclose that location then any attempt to save the innocent from the admitted guilty is allowed.

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If someone has my child locked up and they won't tell me where to rescue them from sure death then that perp will be tortured until he talks or dies. Like I said...there *are* special cases and no these Iraq prisoner abuses don't fit that special case. Better?

Even if I found the use of hyptheticals a valid reason to subvert all human rights agreements, there is no one... and let me emphasize, NO ONE... I would trust with the authority to carry out torture.

We are talking about legal state-sanctioned, state-approved torture. When in human history has state-sanctioned torture gone well? What type of regimes have used state-sanctioned torture in the past? What kind of leaders, what kind of policies have state-sanctioned torture enforced/encouraged?

You kidnap my child and there will be hell to pay. Period.

or are theirs simply trash?

Not some hypothetical crap.

The guy would talk to stop the torture. The police would go to the hiding place he'd revealed.

No kid. The tortured guy was innocent. Too late for your hypothetical kid, though.

somebody tortures you until you disclose how and why you allowed your child to be in harm's way? Of course, the first few explanations you offer are probably lies, so we cant stop too soon...

....now trying to suggest that interrogation and torture are somehow synonymous.

people who are tortured will tell you whatever they think you want to hear....whether it is true or not....kinda like the current cabinet in DC-- give them what they want, or they'll out your wife, claim you're pissed about not receiving a promotion, blah, blah.

A while back just after Sept. 11, Alan Dershowitz made a case for the use of torture in some cases. Dershowitz wanted a specific warrant and to limit the use of torture to circumstances where a lives could be saved.

There is no excuse for the conduct in Iraq. The fact that 44% think that torture is justified is scary.

having to have this argument here a few times, and that shocked the living daylights out of me. I remember a thread with someone suggesting that only pollyanna types would reject torture in today's wicked world. So no, I'm not terribly surprised that CNN asked the question. I'm surprised that more people didn't say that yes indeedy, a little torture of brown people can be a good thing on a Wednesday evening when nothing's on the tube.

The fact that close to 50% of respondents think it's o.k. to use torture is a damning indictment of the thuggish idiots in America.

JB

there isn't much difference between Eye-rackys and libruls...

Annie, get yer ---.

when it happens.

Totalitarianism ALWAYS leads to a predictable end.

Augustus "begets" Tiberius "begets" Caligula and Nero.

Wait for it. If the Busheviks steal the "election", then we are going there for sure.

Put that one up tomorrow on CNN. I mean, duh. How could they say yes to that, but say it's okay to torture other citizens? Geez.. we're stupid.

just to show the public how abyssmally stupid they are, run *both* polls side by side, and watch the numbers skew away from each other.....

rofl - americans aren't good enuff for america......

to end the torture? so now that is gone...there are pretty much no reasons fore whole iraq episode. Why doesn't CNN ask that question..dickheads