Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects!!!
I was reading an article in the New York Times regarding the CIA's illegal use of torture (waterboarding) on 2 Al Qaeda prisoners and I found it quite unbelievable that it was used 266. I then decided to Google waterboarding and discovered that this torture technique has been around for quite some time, but was never really synonymous with an established democracy such as the United States of America. Who would have ever thought?!
Waterboarding has evolved since the time of sticking a board in the mouth and pouring water down someone's throat...now it appears that people are strapped to a board with the head slightly lower than the feet, their face covered with a rag (probably clean--yeah right), and water poured over their face, mouth, nose, etc creating feelingss of near drowning. Yikes...266 times this was done!!
FYI: In 1858: "Negro Convict Showered to Death", Auburn State Prison, New York
In what Harper's Weekly would call a "fearful picture of the mismanagement of our public institutions ... a convict named More was, imprisoned in the State Prison at Auburn, was showered to death by the prison officials. ... all the water that was in the tank -- amounting to from three to five barrels, the quantity is uncertain -- was showered upon him in spite of his piteous cries; a few minutes after his release from the bath he fell prostrate, was carried to his cell, and died in five minutes." "The use of the shower-bath as a means of coercing criminals into submission to the orders of prison authorities began to be general about the year 1845."
Black America can you puhleeze weigh in on this (WaterBoarding) Sit-U-ation?
http://waterboarding.org/water-based_tortu...
Waterboarding has evolved since the time of sticking a board in the mouth and pouring water down someone's throat...now it appears that people are strapped to a board with the head slightly lower than the feet, their face covered with a rag (probably clean--yeah right), and water poured over their face, mouth, nose, etc creating feelingss of near drowning. Yikes...266 times this was done!!
FYI: In 1858: "Negro Convict Showered to Death", Auburn State Prison, New York
In what Harper's Weekly would call a "fearful picture of the mismanagement of our public institutions ... a convict named More was, imprisoned in the State Prison at Auburn, was showered to death by the prison officials. ... all the water that was in the tank -- amounting to from three to five barrels, the quantity is uncertain -- was showered upon him in spite of his piteous cries; a few minutes after his release from the bath he fell prostrate, was carried to his cell, and died in five minutes." "The use of the shower-bath as a means of coercing criminals into submission to the orders of prison authorities began to be general about the year 1845."
Black America can you puhleeze weigh in on this (WaterBoarding) Sit-U-ation?
http://waterboarding.org/water-based_tortu...
...Methods of torture have been around for ever...
Of course they have Corey, but are you insinuating that waterboarding is a "lighter" method of torture? I guess since I am a female, I think any torture is horrible. Although I have never witnessed torture nor do I want to, I have seen on more than a few occasions what it is like for patients with problems with fluid buildup in their lungs (Congestive Heart Failure) to gasp for air to breath. It’s not a pretty picture at all not mention someone pouring water on a person’s face on purpose. .. Just a thought.