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Joe Steel
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"Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote in
news:480be816$0$7711$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
> "Bugman" <jmposing@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:NoSdnY9Q__Z1l5TVnZ2dnUVZ_veinZ2d@giganews.com...
>>
>> Republicans don't have a problem with torture. It's a good way to get
>> the information they need. Right?
>>
>
> Okay, let me try this out. At the end, I have a question for you to
> answer. Now, since I have posted this basic question before, I wonder
> if you will answer...most people do not answer the question asked, but
> who knows, perhaps you will...I like to give people an opportunity to
> succeed. So, here goes.
>
> You have information that there is a number of people who are in this
> country, who are planning a series of massive attacks, that if
> usccessful could kill tens of thousands of people, perhaps even
> hundreds of thousands of people. You know this because he got the
> information from someone who you did not torture. But you have a
> problem. You do not know what the target cities are, you do not know
> who these people are, you do not know where they are, you do not know
> what means they are going to use, and you do not know when the attacks
> will occur. In other words you do not have some cricial bits of
> inforamtion that would help you find them and prevent the events from
> happening. You have just taken into custody someone you "think" can
> provide that critical bits of missing information. But he ain't
> talking. What would you do? Take your chances the hope that you can
> prevent the event from happening, or consider using torture to try to
> get the guy to talk? To add to the problem, you just could resort to
> torture, and he did not have the information you thought he had. You
> could resort to torture, and he gave you information which only
> increased the oddes that you will not prevent the events from
> happening. On the other hand, you "may be" able to get that critical
> bit of information you need to prevent the event from happening by the
> use of torture. Now to add to the problem you have in making such a
> decsion, you know it is against US law to resort to torture, so if you
> go down that path, you are breaking the law. What would you do?
>
Question him. Try to make a deal. Show him how providing good
information would make him better-off.
news:480be816$0$7711$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
> "Bugman" <jmposing@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:NoSdnY9Q__Z1l5TVnZ2dnUVZ_veinZ2d@giganews.com...
>>
>> Republicans don't have a problem with torture. It's a good way to get
>> the information they need. Right?
>>
>
> Okay, let me try this out. At the end, I have a question for you to
> answer. Now, since I have posted this basic question before, I wonder
> if you will answer...most people do not answer the question asked, but
> who knows, perhaps you will...I like to give people an opportunity to
> succeed. So, here goes.
>
> You have information that there is a number of people who are in this
> country, who are planning a series of massive attacks, that if
> usccessful could kill tens of thousands of people, perhaps even
> hundreds of thousands of people. You know this because he got the
> information from someone who you did not torture. But you have a
> problem. You do not know what the target cities are, you do not know
> who these people are, you do not know where they are, you do not know
> what means they are going to use, and you do not know when the attacks
> will occur. In other words you do not have some cricial bits of
> inforamtion that would help you find them and prevent the events from
> happening. You have just taken into custody someone you "think" can
> provide that critical bits of missing information. But he ain't
> talking. What would you do? Take your chances the hope that you can
> prevent the event from happening, or consider using torture to try to
> get the guy to talk? To add to the problem, you just could resort to
> torture, and he did not have the information you thought he had. You
> could resort to torture, and he gave you information which only
> increased the oddes that you will not prevent the events from
> happening. On the other hand, you "may be" able to get that critical
> bit of information you need to prevent the event from happening by the
> use of torture. Now to add to the problem you have in making such a
> decsion, you know it is against US law to resort to torture, so if you
> go down that path, you are breaking the law. What would you do?
>
Question him. Try to make a deal. Show him how providing good
information would make him better-off.