Waterboard the candidates, let's get the truth, start with Rudy


The next time Michael Mukasey is called to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee I suggest that he be strapped to a stretcher, a rag placed in his mouth and water poured in the rag until he begins to answer completely and truthfully the questions put to him by the committee.

Now that waterboarding has become an accepted form of interrogation in these United States, I recommend that it be utilized not only with Mukasey, but with all future witnesses before committees of the congress. I think that there are subpoenas kicking around out there for Condi Rice and other executive department figures who have been less than forthcoming in past appearances, so perhaps as our favorite republican tough guy Rudy Giuliani says, we should question them aggressively.

It might be a good idea if the voting public were able to use the same technique in questioning the presidential candidates on their positions. For the rest of the debates all candidates should be wheeled in strapped to stretchers and aggressively questioned using this simulated drowning method.

Using these methods we may begin to get the truth from our "public servants" and declared wannabes.

This will not work in Atlanta however, they don't have enough water at the moment to achieve any kind of satisfactory results.

Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust


BobHiggins November 6, 2007 - 6:03am

And waterboarding is a great way to get these evil magicians to admit their sinful ways. Waterboard the warlock!
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Jimbo92107 November 5, 2007 - 11:21pm

...he should be pressed until he confesses. Then hanged as a warlock.

The only man killed in the 1692 trials was pressed to death before he could confess. A beam was laid across his chest and stones were placed on the ends of the beam, so as to put pressure on the chest and induce confession through suffocation.

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justadood November 6, 2007 - 12:33am

Traditionally, in English law, that's for people who refuse to plead - as was the case with Giles Corey. Basically, he elected to die by crushing instead of going to trial, possibly to prevent seizure of his estate. (Death by 'standing mute' prevents trial, and thus conviction and seizure of assets.)

Regarding the whole torture/not torture thing, it seems like it would be easier to draw parallels between 'stress positions' and 'the stork'. The latter is a medieval torture device that works by holding the victim in an uncomfortable position that induces cramps.

http://www.monkey-bite.com/sand/stork.html
http://www.vienna.cc/english/folterm04.htm

NateTG November 6, 2007 - 10:52am

out of committee and is being "advanced to the floor." CNN says this virtually ensures his confirmation before Thanksgiving.

Bolo November 6, 2007 - 11:32am

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