tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post2173025014495257256..comments2024-03-18T17:01:07.165-07:00Comments on The Provocateur: An Entirely Political Exercise Masquerading as Constitutional Debatemike volpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-83122125195245766552009-04-22T22:57:00.000-07:002009-04-22T22:57:00.000-07:00chaoticsynapticactivity
can we have more of your ...chaoticsynapticactivity<br /><br />can we have more of your analysis?<br />you seem so objective!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-20295969134875681532009-04-22T16:50:00.000-07:002009-04-22T16:50:00.000-07:00It produces too many false positives to be useful?...It produces too many false positives to be useful? <br /><br />On whom was it used? Very few. Did it saves lives? Yes it did.<br /><br />Too many false positives? I don't think so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-48747115466727537762009-04-22T16:41:00.000-07:002009-04-22T16:41:00.000-07:00Anonymous: Go ahead, believe in that drivel. Who...Anonymous: Go ahead, believe in that drivel. Who's data are you using, anyhow? Do you live in LA? Wold it have been OK with you to let planes fly into buildings out there?<br /><br />Were you one of them hollering "What did Bush know and when did he know about it?"<br /><br />Oh, and forget that Congress doesn't have the guts to make a law on what the US considers as "torture." Daniel Pearl, rest his soul, knows what torture is, at the end of a rusty, dull knife.<br /><br />You up for a little jaunt to the caves of the 'Stan to bring those demented people to justice? how about the AQ in Iraq who did it to hundreds of people? too far, then go to Thailand, or the Philippines, or India and you can make your brave stand against the forces of Islamic Terror there, if you have any backbone.<br /><br />Oh, I forgot...they aren't part of the military of a sovereign nation, that has signed treaties, so they get off your hook.<br /><br />Sleep deprivation? I got it standing the watch for 20 years so you could say things like you have, and believe in such ridiculous arguments. Cold places to sleep, sometimes pretty hot, and sometimes I missed chow, because I was working on deck. Yep, had water bugs the size of my thumb in my room at night in TX, but I wasn't afraid of them (because I got more of an education than memorizing a Koran, for one thing). It wasn't torture to me, but the cost of service to the citizens of the US I gladly did.<br /><br />You're welcome, you ingrate.chaoticsynapticactivityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030483517020312776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-72256930872556966472009-04-22T16:32:00.000-07:002009-04-22T16:32:00.000-07:00If you need to make up something, your argument me...If you need to make up something, your argument means nothing. We don't sign treaties with the UN.<br /><br />I assume what you are talking about was the Geneva Convention. The Geneva Convention stipulated the rules of war including how to treat POW's. It also defined a proper military person. That person wears a uniform and fights under the flag of a nation and also battles against other military. Al Qaeda fits none of those. Thus, they get no Geneva convention protections. <br /><br />Your second point has more to do with tactic rather than constitutionality. Frankly, that is a question beyond both of us. I will leave it to the interrogators themselves to decide when a certain tactic is appropriate. The reality is that each of these techniques were used in a very limited role likely in lieu of your point.mike volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-20761802852219671462009-04-22T16:24:00.000-07:002009-04-22T16:24:00.000-07:00The constitution says that treaties that we sign b...The constitution says that treaties that we sign become part of the law. We've signed treaties with the UN and others outlawing tactics such as torture.<br /><br />The biggest problem with torture is that it produces too many false positives to be useful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com