Sunday, May 10, 2009
Awake for 11 days straight
Recently we've found out that one of the torture methods used during the Bush administration was keeping potential terrorist suspects awake for 11 days to break their will. Obama outlawed this in January. I agree to outlawing cruel and unusual punishment, but I don't find this to be like that. If they get tired, they can just talk, they are basically doing it to themselves by not talking. I'm a big fan of lie detectors, I don't know why they just don't use those all of the time it's simple and straight forward... yes or no, lie or truth.
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I find that form of torture absolutly hilarious. I know that sounds bad, but there are worse things that we could do to potential terrorist. I don't see this as being cruel and unusual at all, we aren't beating them to an inch of their life, we are just simply teasing them with lack of sleep.
ReplyDeleteHaha, funny article Kali. I have to disagree with you, and Jessi's comment as well. First, lie detectors are not accurate enough to be used in most US court cases, b/c they measure emotions, not lies. If you get asked a question that upsets you, the polygraph spikes. This only indicates that you feel strongly about that question, not that your answer is a lie. Anybody who has military training should be able to beat a polygraph lie detector test, as well as anybody who knows how they work. Hell anybody who takes a Xanax before the test will pass.
ReplyDeleteSecond, to say that we are "teasing" these people with a lack of sleep is absurd. Speaking from personal experience, 5 days of no sleep is just about Hell. You hallucinate, but not in a cool way. You see people who don't exist, you mix up words, you can't discern what people are saying to you. Melatonin and Serotonin are at dangerous levels of depletion, and you are close to full-blown delerium.
You're comparing what it feels like for you to miss one night of sleep to eleven, it doesn't work that way. And Kali, to say, "They should just talk," is also ridiculous. They did talk. A lot. But talk that comes from torture or from delerium is gibberish that often times makes no sense.