Comments on: We tortured http://thinkingmeat.net/2009/04/07/we-tortured It's meat! And it thinks! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:44:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Billy Joe http://thinkingmeat.net/2009/04/07/we-tortured/comment-page-1#comment-32421 Billy Joe Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:41:44 +0000 http://thinkingmeat.net/?p=2885#comment-32421 I went to Cambodia in Feb. and visited the notorious S-21 prison, which is basically a converted school turned into a torture facility where something like 20,000 people were killed in various manners. Only a handful of people (7?) made it out alive. The people killed there were killed for all sorts of reasons: they were educated, they stole paperclips, etc. It's sort of a creepy glimpse into the type of society the craziest wingnuts seem to desire. The rooms often contain paintings of the horrific deeds done inside of them. One of the rooms was used for waterboarding and, in addition to having the original waterboarding apparatus, there is a painting showing how it was done to the prisoners. I can't find the photo on the web now, but I can mail you my pic of it later, if you'd like to post it. Cambodians know waterboarding is torture. I don't understand why more people, when confronted with wingnut insistence that waterboarding is not torture, don't challenge the wingnut to subject himself to it. Especially the Republican ghouls in Congress and in the wingnut media/blogosphere. I went to Cambodia in Feb. and visited the notorious S-21 prison, which is basically a converted school turned into a torture facility where something like 20,000 people were killed in various manners. Only a handful of people (7?) made it out alive. The people killed there were killed for all sorts of reasons: they were educated, they stole paperclips, etc. It’s sort of a creepy glimpse into the type of society the craziest wingnuts seem to desire.

The rooms often contain paintings of the horrific deeds done inside of them. One of the rooms was used for waterboarding and, in addition to having the original waterboarding apparatus, there is a painting showing how it was done to the prisoners. I can’t find the photo on the web now, but I can mail you my pic of it later, if you’d like to post it.

Cambodians know waterboarding is torture. I don’t understand why more people, when confronted with wingnut insistence that waterboarding is not torture, don’t challenge the wingnut to subject himself to it. Especially the Republican ghouls in Congress and in the wingnut media/blogosphere.

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