See, here’s the thing…
If we’re going to accept that something like waterboardingis a legitimate means of interrogation — and if we’re going to assert that it is not, by any measure, a form of torture — then sooner or later we have to face the rather ugly possibility that the technique (which “simulates” the experience of drowning) will be used not just on faceless terrorists in a faraway special prison, but on the guy two doors down the street whom the police take into custody on suspicion of cannabis growing.
(And let’s focus on the key word there: suspicion. The guy, unlike the terrorist at Guantanamo Bay, may in fact be innocent of the charges placed upon him.)
Is this a “slippery slope” argument? Maybe. But is not the nature of Caesar to expand his power and the use thereof?
This should be especially concerning for American Christians (many of whom are waterboarding supporters) who, in the wake of the George Tiller murder, are being painted as villains and outsiders…and then under the regime of the most pro-abortion president in US history Yet strangely, one can never fail to find an evangelical or a Catholic who has no problem with the idea of waterboarding.
As long as it stays at Gitmo, that is. But what about when it comes to Chicago? To Toronto? To London?
Oh, wait…
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