{"id":515,"date":"2005-12-05T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T04:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=515"},"modified":"2005-12-06T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T18:44:55","slug":"would-this-face-lie-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Would this face lie to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Condoleezza says the US doesn’t torture its prisoners<\/a>*<\/sup>. And if she says it, then you should believe her because she’s telling the truth+<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>: The Bush administration defines the following tactics as legal and “not torture.” Therefore when someone representing said govenment says they don’t “torture” their prisoners, the following tactics don’t count:<\/p>\n

1. The Attention Grab:<\/strong> The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt front of the prisoner and shakes him.
\n2. Attention Slap:<\/strong> An open-handed slap aimed at causing pain and triggering fear.
\n3. The Belly Slap:<\/strong> A hard open-handed slap to the stomach. The aim is to cause pain, but not internal injury. Doctors consulted advised against using a punch, which could cause lasting internal damage.
\n4. Long Time Standing:<\/strong> This technique is described as among the most effective. Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours. Exhaustion and sleep deprivation are effective in yielding confessions.
\n5. The Cold Cell:<\/strong> The prisoner is left to stand naked in a cell kept near 50 degrees. Throughout the time in the cell the prisoner is doused with cold water.
\n6. Water Boarding:<\/strong> The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner’s face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt.<\/p>\n

Although reasonable people would consider the above tactics to be some form of assault or abuse, the Bush Administration does not comprise of reasonable people, and therefore the above tactics are not torture. So, the US doesn’t torture. Heavens, no!<\/p>\n

+<\/sup>: Get real! the Bush administration hasn’t had a day in its existence where its hasn’t tried to make people beleive a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Condoleezza Rice. ’nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}