DEATH OR TORTURE?
My but it’s nice to be high-minded. Until the body toll becomes unbearable.
MI6 Head Sir John Sawers told the Society of Editors in London that the Secret Intelligence Service faced “real constant operational dilemmas” over whether to use intelligence that had been gathered using torture.
The 55 year-old former diplomat said:”Torture is illegal and abhorrent under any circumstances and we have nothing whatsoever to do with it.If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking place, we’re required by UK and international law to avoid that action, and we do, even though that allows that terrorist activity to go ahead.
To hell with that. If innocent lives can be saved by torturing some terrorist low life what is the problem? And what is torture anyway, who decides? And about “International Law” – why have we signed up to a law that means OUR citizens have to be sacrificed on its high altar.
And you prove they are terrorist low-lifes how? On a say so? If the happy authorities can ‘stop and search’ 100,000 or so people, and (potentially) detain them for 14 days, without trial, and not have to show the public evidence, would you be comfortable with “random deaths” to save people?
I could point a finger at you and say “turrist”, you get waterboarded. No-one dies. Fair?
This is why we don’t have a death penalty, as the justice system makes mistakes.
I’m all in favour of torturing the guilty who have knowledge of impending carnage of the innocent but there is a problem with policing such things.
Anon
Judges make mistakes. Shall we abolish the Judiciary? The Police make mistakes, shall we abolish the police? If you take a life, you deserve to lose a life. If you set out to take and a life, all bets are off.