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A Few Words in Defense of Torture

January 6, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Burt Prelutsky
Ubu Roi
2008-01-06 10:08:35

Torture does, in fact, work. I am quite familiar with many of the studies to the contrary, both military and academic, and most are tendentious nonsense. If you begin from the premise that torture is immoral and ineffective, you can easily find a “Peace Studies” department at any university to affirm your position. But aside from the boring moral rhetoric about utilizing torture, the techniques can be very effective in the right hands. And good news for all the enervated, egghead crybabies, modern torture techniques require virtually no blood, so you won’t have to faint at the sight of it!