Answering Derschowitz
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Harvard Law professor Alan Derschowitz poses the question,
When you torture somebody to death … everybody would acknowledge that’s torture. But placing a sterilized needle under somebody’s fingernails for fifteen minutes, causing excruciating pain but no permanent physical damage – is that torture?
Jim Henley replies.
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Dershowitz’s mouth certainly seems to outrun his brain sometimes.
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Hell yes that’s torture. Not that there’s anything wrong with it…
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I’m unclear on what Dersh’s point is — considering that he was all in favor of torturing terror suspects, back before there was hope that Abu Ghraib could be used to turn public opinion against Dubya…
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Being tied in a chair with your eyes propped open and forced to watch Derschowitz rambling on inanely on TV …. now that would be torture.
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Using pepperspray to swab the eyes and mouths of protestors and/or criminals that are actively resisting arrest and/or removal would also be considered torture by the above definition.
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This from the guy who’s all upset about how eyewitness ID isn’t reliable enough to convict people. (I agree with him on that, to some extent.) I guess we could replace line-ups with needle-ins until somebody confesses.
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What about sleep deprivation? It could be said that making your kids get up in the morning for school is a form of torture.
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Torture is in the eye of the…oh, please not the eye!!
James Joyner exposes the illogic of Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz….
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[torture] is excellent in getting people to give you the answers you WANT, though. … our administration can’t handle the truth; the truth … usually points in directions our leaders are uninterested in going.
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Answering Derschowitz
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