“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)
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— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008
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Steve Harrigan gets waterboarded on Fox
Published Sat, Nov 4 2006 11:55 AM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics
We've heard a lot about waterboarding from a lot of people. The technique has been described to us over and over again, but nothing really brings it home quite like video. Steve Harrigan volunteered to see what it was like.
Hot Air has the video. Pretty instructive.
This seems pretty tame compared to my own preconceived notions of what torture is, which is based on having toured a few places and seeing medieval instruments of torture. It also seems pretty effective.
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