Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded
Good grief, the preamble would be terrifying enough to have me screaming my darkest secrets. Hitchens has the balls to be actually strapped down and ‘boarded. It takes hardly any time (or water for that matter) before he’s had enough.
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:29 am
| See also • Hitchens • I would like just one glass of water • The bon mots of Christopher Hitchens |
• Permalink • Trackback • Subscribe |
|
• Filed under T.W.A.T. |
• |
Some people have way too much spare time on their hands. You don’t need to subject myself to waterboarding to know it’s horrific.
http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com
Some people have way too much spare time on their hands
Hence blogs.
ejh’s latest blog post… Village of the dreamed
And T.W.A.T.
Some people have way too much spare time on their hands.
For fucks sake give the guy some credit. Jeez!
A good bit of putting money where your mouth is, props go out to the big man.
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill’s latest blog post… You Bloody Idiots!
I wonder how many times worse the real thing is
‘king hell. Given that the worst thing about forced partial drowning is the uncertainty over whether or not it’ll be fatal, the fact that it’s that bad even with the certain knowledge you’ll survive is… well, terrifying.
john b’s latest blog post… Police officers only cause the same number of accidents and fires as everyday people
This is an insulting exercise, like claiming having had sex you understand what it’s like to be raped. Whatever the actuality of the torture act in these conditions it is consensual therefore not comparable to real world acts, to do this legitimises debate over what constitutes ‘torture’. But then that is to be expected of this bloodthirsty drunken fool.
RickB’s latest blog post… Abracadabra
No - doing it consensually establishes a minimum threshold of nastiness. If Hitch had said “yeah, that was fine” then it’d mean nothing; the fact that even consensual partial drowning is unspeakably horrible means that doing it forcibly must be at least as bad…
john b’s latest blog post… Police officers only cause the same number of accidents and fires as everyday people
I agree with John. This helps nail the myth that waterboarding is something, somehow, less than torture. And, if nothing else, it means we can strike the ’simulated’ part of the ’simulated drowning’ euphemism.
Anybody remember the Mythbusters episode where they tested Chinese Water Torture? They figured, “hey, it’s only dripping water and you can get out at any time, how bad can it be?” Turns out the answer is “pretty fucking bad, actually.”
A far better account without the ego-
Waterboarding is Torture… Period
RickB’s latest blog post… Heinz, You Gutless Wankers
Bloody hell, I’m fully of the opinion that waterboarding is torture, and I asn’t expecting him to cave quite that quickly. In fact, I thought they were just warming up and hadn’t started yet properly.
By which I don’t mean that I think Hitchins is being a wuss, lest I be misunderstood - I mean that waterboarding, which I already think is torture, mut be much worse than I thought.
Hmmm, I doubt it will have changed his opinions any. Shame. He used to be such an asset.
Not sure what opinions you expected him to change after a bit of waterboarding but I suspect, as a polemicist, he was more interested in changing the opinions of others on the subject of torture, which he may well do and for which I for one am prepared to give him credit.
snark alert/ what if he was gin-boarded/close snark
His VF article and actions deserves merit. But he’s obviously in a cul-de-sac regarding left (definitely)/right (now) views now, I wonder what moves (has he power?) he makes now.
if you think this is bad, you should check out http://www.current.com/kajwaterboarded. Hitchens only lasted 2 minutes but this guy lasted 24!