I've noticed media excusing torture recently

[adigal]

From today's NY Post editorial:

"We are punishing innovative interrogators, such as the two women at Guantanamo Bay, "who, on their own initiative, touched and spoke to detainees in a sexually-suggestive manner in order to incur stress based on the detainees' religious beliefs." Why should we punish those women? Why should we respect terrorists' religious beliefs when we — and a growing number of their co-religionists — say they are perverting their religion by their terrorism?"

I have seen and heard more and more examples of this. These people are not saying we didn't torture anyone, they are saying that it doesn't matter.

What the hell are we coming to???

[rodeodance]

1. many in the media just borrow from the WH--if ok with WH then ok with

them!!

[shoelace414]

2. NY Post = Hack paper

[adigal]

4. Yes, but it has not just been there

I have heard it on radio and seen it in other papers, local ones more responsible supposedly

[SmokingJacket]

3. "Innovative" torturers?

Is that the new word for it?

And Mengele was an "innovative" doctor, I suppose??

It's a very bad sign, I think. Maybe the worst. If Americans are all for torture of foreigners... why not of Americans? Maybe every jail should have a torture chamber to get prisoners to rat on each other?

And maybe when protestors get thrown in jail, they should be tortured to make sure they don't have any terrorist connections?

[Webster Green]

5. Prisoners are already being tortured in our jails..

Restraint methods and disiplinary measures amount to torture. Gang rapes are common, but are fodder for sit-com laughs. We live in a very sick society.