Comments on: Isn’t This Good News? http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=4393 "The hobgoblin of little blogs." "A knack for taking the already disturbing and turning it into the abjectly ghastly." Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:37:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Bloodthirsty Liberal http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=4393#comment-9877 Bloodthirsty Liberal Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:33:05 +0000 http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=4393#comment-9877 One person's torture is another person's sexual arousal technique, I always say. But we're not talking about your fevered imagination, but about the facts of this case. The poor gentleman "abused" by the FBI would probably have cheered the real suspect being subjected to this treatment, as I hope he was. The only thing "wrong" was that he was incorrectly IDd---by the flight crew---as an accomplice. Face down on the tarmac is a good place to start sorting things out. No one was redacted, renditioned, tortured, or detained for any longer than was necessary to determine what really happened. Sorry, but I think that's how it's supposed to go. One person’s torture is another person’s sexual arousal technique, I always say.

But we’re not talking about your fevered imagination, but about the facts of this case. The poor gentleman “abused” by the FBI would probably have cheered the real suspect being subjected to this treatment, as I hope he was. The only thing “wrong” was that he was incorrectly IDd—by the flight crew—as an accomplice. Face down on the tarmac is a good place to start sorting things out.

No one was redacted, renditioned, tortured, or detained for any longer than was necessary to determine what really happened.

Sorry, but I think that’s how it’s supposed to go.

]]> By: Mark Jaquith http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=4393#comment-9876 Mark Jaquith Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:11:59 +0000 http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=4393#comment-9876 <blockquote>I would have been lying face down on the tarmac, my hands cuffed behind my back, thinking “Dudes, what took you so long?”</blockquote> You'd be happy that a bunch of government agents were threatening to kill you? Happy that the same government who holds terror suspects in jail without charging them with a crime, the same government that tortures terror suspects and sends terror suspects to terror-friendly foreign countries for years-long unlawful detention and hideous torture now considers you a candidate for the same treatment? What would you say if you were tortured? Would you still be cheering them on?

I would have been lying face down on the tarmac, my hands cuffed behind my back, thinking “Dudes, what took you so long?”

You’d be happy that a bunch of government agents were threatening to kill you? Happy that the same government who holds terror suspects in jail without charging them with a crime, the same government that tortures terror suspects and sends terror suspects to terror-friendly foreign countries for years-long unlawful detention and hideous torture now considers you a candidate for the same treatment?

What would you say if you were tortured? Would you still be cheering them on?

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