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Originally Posted by Dezzy
How can we even pretend to be any better if we torture enemies as retaliation? Torture doesn't justify torture. It's just repeating the cycle over and over again, Plus there's the whole issue of tortured prisoners becoming martyrs for their cause.
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I'm not proposing or condoning torturing any legitimate prisoner of war, but let's not confuse the issue here; covert terrorists living in the UK are not soldiers and can never be rationally classified as 'prisoners of war' when they are detected and arrested by our security forces or police - they are evil, cowardly, murdering scumbags.
What's more - and I make no apologies here - once it has been ascertained by our intelligence services that they
are irrefutably terrorists, then if those terrorists have information of impending bombings or other outrages against the UK, then I personally don't give a flying FK how that information is 'extracted' from the evil bastards if it is going to save lives.
I don't understand some people's disgust and objections. I have watched many documentaries on the Crime Channel and noted how so many convicted 'civilian' murderers contemptuously refuse to tell the victims grieving families just where the victims bodies are, so that they can be retrieved and given a proper burial. This includes a huge number of child victims, and there is just
no way that these cruel bastards should be living out their lives in a cushy prison 'untroubled'. I'd personally let Ving Rhames into their cell with a pair of pliers one quiet night, so he can "Get medieval on their asses" until they told exactly what they done with these victims.
It's no different with terrorists'.