Hopefully I made clear the number one issue with torture is it invites demons into the process. We have enough of them running free in US government already, thank you. However, it does not require believing in demons to see how foolish torture is on a purely human level. I’ll be citing my own years of study in psychology, so there won’t be any links. Those who know will recognize the truth.
HuffPo isn’t my favorite source for much of anything, but facts are facts. What we have here is the lucid statements of a federal judge, not some whining activist. In the case of one Guantánamo prisoner, it becomes all too clear the US government had no intention of finding truth. The issue of sleep deprivation, for example, is sheer meanness. It is well established using this will get you a subject who suffers delusions, because their brain is unable to differentiate between reality, clear memory, and fictional contents. The barriers of definition are broken down, and the sense of personal identity fades to insignificance. A sleep deprived subject is living inside their own nightmares, where anything at all is possible, except reality itself. Since I know that, there is no reason to think the information was not available to the torturers at Guantánamo. The interrogators didn’t want information, they wanted a pile of documented manure to excuse evil intentions elsewhere.
There is nothing in here about any possibility of honest intent. No human walking on this earth is capable of dissecting the garbage coming out of sleep deprivation unless they already know enough they don’t need to interrogate in the first place. What we are left with is sheer demonic hateful abuse. If we have to use torture to win, we deserve to lose, because we have already lost. If we pay men and women to conduct such hideous operations, we are doomed already. The “enemy” holds the moral high ground.
Americans, we are supporting the greatest evil stalking this earth.
