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As newspapers and documentary films continue to discuss waterboarding and other controversial treatments of suspected terrorists, the debate over torture remains intense. Some insist that desperate times call for desperate measures, but others are baffled that such methods could exist in a civilized society. Is physical persuasion ever an appropriate means of interrogation?
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Authorizing Any Form of Torture Trusts Government Too Much
- From Evangelicals for Human Rights
By Evangelicals for Human Rights - An Evangelical Coalition Against Torture
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Again, per your initial statment:
"This work of government does involve the sword; that is, coercion, and in necessary cases, violence."
Arguing that there should be due process does not, implicitly, established how torture is different from or inconsistent with acceptable violance and coercion.
- DaleySapere
December 6, 2008 7:57PM
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