A few weeks ago, Sean Hannity made a comment about waterboarding.
GRODIN: You're for torture. HANNITY: I am for enhanced interrogation. GRODIN: You don't believe it's torture. Have you ever been waterboarded? HANNITY: No, but Ollie North has. GRODIN: Would you consent to be waterboarded? We can waterboard you? HANNITY: Sure. GRODIN: Are you busy on Sunday? HANNITY: I'll do it for charity. I'll let you do it. I'll do it for the troops' families.
Since then, offers have been made to pay $1,000 per second Hannity endured the technique and to double the price if he admitted he feared for his life. Hannity hasn't said a thing since this offer has been made - it's been a while, he's not likely to say anything.
BUT other conservatives have stepped up to the plate:
These guys did it just to prove a point (and managed to prove another one). Let's hope Sean Hannity does it with the incentive of money for charity. It's hard to imagine it taking more than 10 seconds for him to completely change his tune.
It's pretty terrifying to see these guys so shaken. It really drives home the point that this is not just "pouring water" - it's drowning. It's torture.
I don't think either Hitchens' or Mancow's (who Wikipedia says is a FM DJ, not conservative talk show host) testimonies mean that much, but I would LOVE to see Sean Hannity waterboarded for 30 seconds.
They force you to breathe water causing you to drown. This triggers a very strong fear of drowning since apparently that's what was hard wired into mammals to make them more successful at surviving drowning.
If you don't know where you are and blindfolded knowing people want to do some real bad things with you, it is possible you will break your own bones.
In the end you die if they don't stop. If you survive, it causes psychological damage. You will have nightmares.
It is a common form of water torture probably known as long as people torture. But once it was discovered the US used this form of torture NYT changed the name to 'waterboarding'.
On May 23 2009 07:13 Jibba wrote: I don't think either Hitchens' or Mancow's (who Wikipedia says is a FM DJ, not conservative talk show host) testimonies mean that much, but I would LOVE to see Sean Hannity waterboarded for 30 seconds.
wikipedia is right - he is a fm dj. and he is a conservative talk show host.
his show, afaik, is a morning talk show on from 9-11am.
King James I personally described the process in The Kings Booke (1606). He would, on the advice of his officers, “approve no new torture,” but he would certainly avail himself of the existing practices. In ascending order of severity they were: thumbscrews, the rack and waterboarding. That’s right. Waterboarding was considered the most severe of the official forms of torture. Worse than the rack and thumbscrews.
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