Letters to the Editor
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The Ticking Bomb trick
The gambit is obvious: Every torture defender puts forward the ticking bomb situation.
The terrorist knows the location of the nuclear bomb, and the responsible government officer uses, as a matter of last resort, torture to sacrifice a live to save the life of many and protect all of us.
Once you accept this scenario, no matter how outlandish it is in reality, the justification of torture follows easily.
I would like to know where are the nuclear bombs, the WMDs that justify the actual use of torture that indeed has been going on for the last 50 years by or under the auspices of the US and the School of the Americas, only to become more flagrant over the last 7 years.
Cut the bullshit. America tortures. This country imported the technology from the masters, the Germans and the French, And has refined the art of torture to the ultimate levels of sophistication, has spread it, promoted and supervised it during the proxy regimes in Latin America and Asia.
If you guys can sleep at night knowing that your so called Freedom reign is based on such monstrosities, I pity you.
The road to humanity is hard and tortuous.