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	<title>Comments on: Scarborough: &#8216;That&#8217;s the silliest thing I&#8217;ve ever heard&#8217; that torture doesn&#8217;t work.</title>
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		<title>By: BornIn60</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-5/#comment-5425314</link>
		<dc:creator>BornIn60</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I generally like Scarborough although he is wrong on most issues. But I watched this and it can only be described as embarrassing.  He dominated the conversation, mocked any disagreement and basically refused to let Freeland even try to make a point.  I am always enraged by the conservative habit of refusing to allow any middle ground between torture and pampering.  By the time they returned from commercial, Freeland was gone.  She has been a frequent contributor to the show in the past; it will be interesting to see when she is back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I generally like Scarborough although he is wrong on most issues. But I watched this and it can only be described as embarrassing.  He dominated the conversation, mocked any disagreement and basically refused to let Freeland even try to make a point.  I am always enraged by the conservative habit of refusing to allow any middle ground between torture and pampering.  By the time they returned from commercial, Freeland was gone.  She has been a frequent contributor to the show in the past; it will be interesting to see when she is back.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5425314', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>dbadass Says: 

Of COURSE he doesnt have any moral problems between his ignorance and his lack of decency he doesnt even RECOGNIZE morality. It isnt on his radar. The entire CONCEPT is foriegn to him.</description>
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<p>Of COURSE he doesnt have any moral problems between his ignorance and his lack of decency he doesnt even RECOGNIZE morality. It isnt on his radar. The entire CONCEPT is foriegn to him.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423910', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rddaos Says: 

No its your JOB to regurgitate what you were TOLD to believe like the demented myna bird you are. You DONT give any evidence much less proof because you CANT. You are ignorant and think just repeating your OPINION will eventually make it true. It only shows how stupid you are and nothing else</description>
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<p>No its your JOB to regurgitate what you were TOLD to believe like the demented myna bird you are. You DONT give any evidence much less proof because you CANT. You are ignorant and think just repeating your OPINION will eventually make it true. It only shows how stupid you are and nothing else<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423900', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423638</link>
		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>obviously 196 has some typos. Most important the failure to include the word &quot;not&quot; in front of the word &quot;sold&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>obviously 196 has some typos. Most important the failure to include the word &#8220;not&#8221; in front of the word &#8220;sold&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423638', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423600</link>
		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well apparantly it is my job to force you to examine that which you wish to claim is obvious

http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=20647</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well apparantly it is my job to force you to examine that which you wish to claim is obvious</p>
<p><a href="http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=20647" rel="nofollow">http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=20647</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423600', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423580</link>
		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay rddaos:
So lets say you get done with your little torture experiment and it turns out that those other nontorture based sources prove the innocents and falsehood of the initial info gathered from the torture. Do you not now have a major moral problem? 

I still think it odd that we don&#039;t want to look at real research on the subject. Is it possible may not like what we find? I calin no specific expertise on the subject but my understanding from what I have read is that those who do are sold on its &quot;obvious&quot; effectiveness.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay rddaos:<br />
So lets say you get done with your little torture experiment and it turns out that those other nontorture based sources prove the innocents and falsehood of the initial info gathered from the torture. Do you not now have a major moral problem? </p>
<p>I still think it odd that we don&#8217;t want to look at real research on the subject. Is it possible may not like what we find? I calin no specific expertise on the subject but my understanding from what I have read is that those who do are sold on its &#8220;obvious&#8221; effectiveness.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423580', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423530</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;rddaos Says: 

My independent source is tell me where you’ve been hiding the bomb-making materials. If he says under his grandmother’s mattress, you verify by lifting up the damn mattress. Try to keep up with me, I know it’s complicated.&lt;/em&gt;

I&#039;m out on the street using criminal investigation procedures while you&#039;re in there playing creepy fascist S&amp;M freak.  I already searched his family&#039;s house and am on to the next stage of the investigation.  You&#039;re still playing with some poor SOB&#039;s nuts and giggling.  Also, the media broke the story that you&#039;re in there torturing people and, 12 more people joined Al-Qaeda this morning because of it.  Thanks so much for all your help.

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&lt;em&gt;rddaos Says: 

It’s not my job to show you proof that extreme pain can be used to force people into doing things they would rather not do. &lt;/em&gt;

Oh sure, you can make him stand with his arms out on a crate if you want.  That&#039;s not the same thing as getting useful information that you don&#039;t already have.

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&lt;em&gt;rddaos Says: 

On the other hand, ten seconds of excruciating pain would get the same information out of him.&lt;/em&gt;

Ten seconds?  OK, now it turns out you don&#039;t even know how to torture people.  Or are you doing some kind of 80&#039;s torture montage in that ten seconds?  I at least assumed that you knew what you were talking about at least enough to know how the process of torture goes.  But I guess that&#039;s what I get for misunderestimating a fascist.</description>
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<p>My independent source is tell me where you’ve been hiding the bomb-making materials. If he says under his grandmother’s mattress, you verify by lifting up the damn mattress. Try to keep up with me, I know it’s complicated.</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;m out on the street using criminal investigation procedures while you&#8217;re in there playing creepy fascist S&amp;M freak.  I already searched his family&#8217;s house and am on to the next stage of the investigation.  You&#8217;re still playing with some poor SOB&#8217;s nuts and giggling.  Also, the media broke the story that you&#8217;re in there torturing people and, 12 more people joined Al-Qaeda this morning because of it.  Thanks so much for all your help.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>rddaos Says: </p>
<p>It’s not my job to show you proof that extreme pain can be used to force people into doing things they would rather not do. </em></p>
<p>Oh sure, you can make him stand with his arms out on a crate if you want.  That&#8217;s not the same thing as getting useful information that you don&#8217;t already have.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>rddaos Says: </p>
<p>On the other hand, ten seconds of excruciating pain would get the same information out of him.</em></p>
<p>Ten seconds?  OK, now it turns out you don&#8217;t even know how to torture people.  Or are you doing some kind of 80&#8217;s torture montage in that ten seconds?  I at least assumed that you knew what you were talking about at least enough to know how the process of torture goes.  But I guess that&#8217;s what I get for misunderestimating a fascist.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423530', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rddaos Says: 

While YOU go back to repeating your premise endlessly without even TRYING to back it up like the moronic propaganda parrot you are.</description>
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<p>While YOU go back to repeating your premise endlessly without even TRYING to back it up like the moronic propaganda parrot you are.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423460', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423450</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rddaos Says: 


My independent source is tell me where you’ve been hiding the bomb-making materials. If he says under his grandmother’s mattress, you verify by lifting up the damn mattress. Try to keep up with me, I know it’s complicated.
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So you need to torture someone because you are too STUPID to think to look at relatives houses to find bomb making material AFTER you capture a bomb maker? Is that a joke? Are you really a left winger trying to make rightwingers look like MORONS? Are you REALLY making the argument that we need to torture people to make up for stupidity and incompetence?</description>
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<p>My independent source is tell me where you’ve been hiding the bomb-making materials. If he says under his grandmother’s mattress, you verify by lifting up the damn mattress. Try to keep up with me, I know it’s complicated.<br />
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<p>So you need to torture someone because you are too STUPID to think to look at relatives houses to find bomb making material AFTER you capture a bomb maker? Is that a joke? Are you really a left winger trying to make rightwingers look like MORONS? Are you REALLY making the argument that we need to torture people to make up for stupidity and incompetence?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423450', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423446</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rddaos Says: 

You dont have a POINT MORON. You have an OPINION. One you repeat endlessly and have ZERO EVIDENCE to back up. That is NOT A POINT. It is an ASSERTION, they are not the same thing.</description>
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<p>You dont have a POINT MORON. You have an OPINION. One you repeat endlessly and have ZERO EVIDENCE to back up. That is NOT A POINT. It is an ASSERTION, they are not the same thing.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423446', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423436</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are a moron raddos if we can verify and corroborate it we can find it out without torture. My GOD you are ignorant. What about the innocent people we torture. I assume we wont be torturing these people AFTER a trial. So we SUSPECT a guy is a terrorist but he just phoned a wrong number or his brother in law is a bad guy. He doesnt know anything and is tortured. JUST LIKE MAHER ARAR. You have no decency, no brainpan and if the world was run by ignorant punks like you there would be no civilization</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are a moron raddos if we can verify and corroborate it we can find it out without torture. My GOD you are ignorant. What about the innocent people we torture. I assume we wont be torturing these people AFTER a trial. So we SUSPECT a guy is a terrorist but he just phoned a wrong number or his brother in law is a bad guy. He doesnt know anything and is tortured. JUST LIKE MAHER ARAR. You have no decency, no brainpan and if the world was run by ignorant punks like you there would be no civilization<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423436', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rddaos Says: 

And you can just keep repeating yourself like the moron you are but you NEVER had any credibility so it only makes YOU look like a demented Myna bird. Torture is evil. It makes people talk but we have ZERO evidence that they wont just tell us what they think we WANT to hear. Just like McCain did. My GOD you are ignorant.</description>
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<p>And you can just keep repeating yourself like the moron you are but you NEVER had any credibility so it only makes YOU look like a demented Myna bird. Torture is evil. It makes people talk but we have ZERO evidence that they wont just tell us what they think we WANT to hear. Just like McCain did. My GOD you are ignorant.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423418', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rddaos Says: 

Since you are stupider than the hair on a barbershop floor your opinion about who is simpleminded means less than the price of ping pong balls in Guatemala. You are a low class moron</description>
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<p>Since you are stupider than the hair on a barbershop floor your opinion about who is simpleminded means less than the price of ping pong balls in Guatemala. You are a low class moron<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423408', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ElBruce Says: 

Good catch ElBruce so hippyLicker is not only a moron but a plagiarist as well. Why would I be suprised? Wingnuts and trolls have no shame.</description>
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<p>Good catch ElBruce so hippyLicker is not only a moron but a plagiarist as well. Why would I be suprised? Wingnuts and trolls have no shame.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423398', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>drew3rd Says: 


What is well documented you ignorant loaf is that he gave us FALSE INFORMATION. Just how stupid are you anyway? Just like John McCain did to HIS torturers. Just like thousands did to the torturers at the Spanish inquisitions. You are a moron. Things dont become true just because you WISH they were. You just dont care if torture works or not. You are a coward and it makes you FEEL better. It doesnt matter to you if you ARE safer as long as while you bedwetters cower under your beds you can think about brown people everywhere being hurt. That it is antithetical to our values as a nation also means nothing to you. That it pretty much assures that OUR soldiers will be tortured next time we fight a war against a civilized nation means nothing to you since in your self centered cowardice YOU feeling safer is all that matters. You are pitiful</description>
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<p>What is well documented you ignorant loaf is that he gave us FALSE INFORMATION. Just how stupid are you anyway? Just like John McCain did to HIS torturers. Just like thousands did to the torturers at the Spanish inquisitions. You are a moron. Things dont become true just because you WISH they were. You just dont care if torture works or not. You are a coward and it makes you FEEL better. It doesnt matter to you if you ARE safer as long as while you bedwetters cower under your beds you can think about brown people everywhere being hurt. That it is antithetical to our values as a nation also means nothing to you. That it pretty much assures that OUR soldiers will be tortured next time we fight a war against a civilized nation means nothing to you since in your self centered cowardice YOU feeling safer is all that matters. You are pitiful<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423386', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rddaos Says: 

Because you SAID SO while refusing to back that up with anything but your repitition of your premise despite repeated requests for some evidence. You wingnuts really are dumb enough to think things become true if you repeat them enough times. Well I say torture DOESNT WORK no matter how often you incredibly stupid morons say it does</description>
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<p>Because you SAID SO while refusing to back that up with anything but your repitition of your premise despite repeated requests for some evidence. You wingnuts really are dumb enough to think things become true if you repeat them enough times. Well I say torture DOESNT WORK no matter how often you incredibly stupid morons say it does<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423368', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423258</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;rddaos Says: 

Now the both of you - back to sticking your fingers in your ears, scrunching your eyes tightly shut and going lalalalala torture doesnt work lalalalala torture doesnt work&lt;/em&gt;

You&#039;re the one who is declining to provide evidence of your claims.  You&#039;ve also ignored the evidence provided by others to counter your claims.  Therefore, it is you who are being willfully ignorant.  No wait, I believe the polite phrase is &quot;intellectually incurious.&quot;  Yeah, that&#039;s it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>rddaos Says: </p>
<p>Now the both of you &#8211; back to sticking your fingers in your ears, scrunching your eyes tightly shut and going lalalalala torture doesnt work lalalalala torture doesnt work</em></p>
<p>You&#8217;re the one who is declining to provide evidence of your claims.  You&#8217;ve also ignored the evidence provided by others to counter your claims.  Therefore, it is you who are being willfully ignorant.  No wait, I believe the polite phrase is &#8220;intellectually incurious.&#8221;  Yeah, that&#8217;s it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423258', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5423254</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;rddaos Says: 

Again you’ve failed to refute my point. Any effective torturing session involves VERIFICATION of what the torture victim says. Your misguided fixation with the idea of torturing people to get them to tell you unverifiable stuff doesn’t lend you credibility.&lt;/em&gt;

If you had independent sources of verification, you wouldn&#039;t need to torture people.  Admit it: you just want to get your little neocon rocks off.</description>
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<p>Again you’ve failed to refute my point. Any effective torturing session involves VERIFICATION of what the torture victim says. Your misguided fixation with the idea of torturing people to get them to tell you unverifiable stuff doesn’t lend you credibility.</em></p>
<p>If you had independent sources of verification, you wouldn&#8217;t need to torture people.  Admit it: you just want to get your little neocon rocks off.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5423254', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5422906</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;ElBruce,

The point of torture is not to get people to tell you what they don’t know. So that’s a dumb argument. &lt;/em&gt;

I think you read my post wrong.  Or maybe I was a little unclear.

No, your goal is to get the torturee to tell you what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; don&#039;t know.  Their goal is to get you to stop.  Therefore, it&#039;s much more important to tell you what you want to hear than the truth.  For example, let&#039;s say you&#039;re torturing a cab driver who you think is a terrorist.  If he tells you he&#039;s a cab driver, you&#039;ll just torture him some more, because of course that&#039;s what the terrorist would say.  So he&#039;ll tell you he&#039;s a terrorist.  Congratulations, you just caught a terrorist!  Now he&#039;s got to make up a bunch of stuff to keep you satisfied or you&#039;ll start torturing him again.  Because he doesn&#039;t know anything about terrorism to begin with, all of what he tells you will be false.

You know, a lot of libs throw around the word &quot;hate&quot; to talk about why wingnuts do what they do.  But I just figured out, it&#039;s not hate.  You don&#039;t hate people.  It&#039;s &lt;em&gt;fear&lt;/em&gt;.  The fact is, you are afraid.  And you&#039;re so afraid that you&#039;ll hurt anybody just to feel a little safer.  You don&#039;t care if what you do really works, you just want it to make you feel a little less scared.  This once-great nation has been managed by cowards like yourself for far too long.  You will not be allowed to hurt people any more, and those who have will face justice for their crimes against decency, humanity, and reason.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>ElBruce,</p>
<p>The point of torture is not to get people to tell you what they don’t know. So that’s a dumb argument. </em></p>
<p>I think you read my post wrong.  Or maybe I was a little unclear.</p>
<p>No, your goal is to get the torturee to tell you what <em>you</em> don&#8217;t know.  Their goal is to get you to stop.  Therefore, it&#8217;s much more important to tell you what you want to hear than the truth.  For example, let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re torturing a cab driver who you think is a terrorist.  If he tells you he&#8217;s a cab driver, you&#8217;ll just torture him some more, because of course that&#8217;s what the terrorist would say.  So he&#8217;ll tell you he&#8217;s a terrorist.  Congratulations, you just caught a terrorist!  Now he&#8217;s got to make up a bunch of stuff to keep you satisfied or you&#8217;ll start torturing him again.  Because he doesn&#8217;t know anything about terrorism to begin with, all of what he tells you will be false.</p>
<p>You know, a lot of libs throw around the word &#8220;hate&#8221; to talk about why wingnuts do what they do.  But I just figured out, it&#8217;s not hate.  You don&#8217;t hate people.  It&#8217;s <em>fear</em>.  The fact is, you are afraid.  And you&#8217;re so afraid that you&#8217;ll hurt anybody just to feel a little safer.  You don&#8217;t care if what you do really works, you just want it to make you feel a little less scared.  This once-great nation has been managed by cowards like yourself for far too long.  You will not be allowed to hurt people any more, and those who have will face justice for their crimes against decency, humanity, and reason.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422906', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/scarborough-loves-torture/comment-page-4/#comment-5422676</link>
		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a scientist with a particular interest in behavior, the point I wish to make is a simple one. Clearly a bunch of nonexperts simply saying it works, it doesn&#039;t work is pointless. If this is so obvious as some would have us believe than where are the studies to support the notion? Should we not look to the experts on the subject and the actual data?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a scientist with a particular interest in behavior, the point I wish to make is a simple one. Clearly a bunch of nonexperts simply saying it works, it doesn&#8217;t work is pointless. If this is so obvious as some would have us believe than where are the studies to support the notion? Should we not look to the experts on the subject and the actual data?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422676', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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