Poll: U.S. divided over torture, closing Guantanamo
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Den Den
"Some 52% of people say torture can be at least sometimes justified"...means that you blame Bush and Cheney. It is Americans in general who are human rights abusers. We need to look into a mirror and straighten ourselves out.
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Den Den
Opps, meant you can't just blame it all on GOP.
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LFRAgain
And these would be the same Americans that would run screaming to the UN or the Hague for protections and compensation in the event they were captured and tortured by another nation. Methinks the American public is watching "24" a bit too much.
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JoeBigs
"Some 52% of people say torture can be at least sometimes justified"
After 7 years of the far right brain washing Americans this is what you get. It will take sometime to deprogram the American victims of the far right propaganda campaign done to them by the far right.
I just feel bad for the visqueen and duck tape seller out there after these people wake up and open their windows. After they wake up and realize that they have been duped I wonder if they will still support the far right......LOL
But of course you must also take a look at this poll, it was done on 1000 phones in America. Now how well does this reflect the true feelings of 300,000,000+ citizens is anyone's guess.
But if you look at the last election and the feeling of the American people in that election then you can take this poll for what it is worth.
Here is a link that explains how the poll was taken. http://blog.taragana.com/n/how-politics-and-terrorism-poll-was-conducted-70496/
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amerijap
Well, it's a ballpark figure, but it explains the people's perceptions on the principle of democracy are changing since 9/11.
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skipthesong
I hate polls. There are nothing more than a waste of money and time and provide false hopes!
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skipthesong
And these would be the same Americans that would run screaming to the UN or the Hague for protections and compensation in the event they were captured and tortured by another nation."
Well, let's count. How many captured by America have had any limbs cut off?
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skipthesong
hung from street poles, dead dragged through the streets!
No, we are not hypocritial as such a wimp like you likes to paint. We are however, or were, a people that if messed with, we'd give it right back.
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SuperLib
Interesting stats.
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SezWho2
If we're going to be ungrammatical, we might as well be authentic. I believe the expression is, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
But that's the problem, ain't it? It is "broke".
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Den Den
Joebigs is right to question the field of this study. Don't forget we lock up over a million of our citizens, plus those renditioned etc...did they get a say?
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SezWho2
It was fun growing up and learning about the US. I can remember as a grade school child, the Scholastic magazines and the My Weekly Readers. At some point every year we were treated to an issue setting forth why it was necessary for us to claim independence.
Occasionally these issue would be peppered with illustrations of the evil of kings. I remember in particular one very graphic picture of a torture chamber and a man on the rack. The accompanying text explained that kings could seize and torture anyone.
As children we agreed that this was a bad thing. Did something happen? Evil for kings, evil for presidents and their growling veeps.
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LFRAgain
A recent Gallup poll indicates that 49% of Americans would say something like this. ;-)
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LFRAgain
Today's news and this thread remind me a lot of Matt Groening's "New Pledge of Allegiance" from a 1994 "Life in Hell" strip:
"I pledge allegiance to and wrap myself in the flag of the United States Against Anything Un-American and to the Republicans for which it stands, two nations, under Jesus, rich against poor, with curtailed liberty and justice for all except blacks, homosexuals, women who want abortions, Communists, welfare queens, treehuggers, feminazis, illegal immigrants, children of illegal immigrants . . . and you if you don't watch your step.
You know what happened? Somewhere along the way, the American Dream got ripped off and taken on a joyride by drunken rich kids with too much time on their hands.
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OneForAll
Let's say there is a threat to many people. One person captured knows where it is. You have little time. Yelling at him is torture. Sleep deprivation is torture. And of course the most effective, waterboarding, is torture. Would you use any of those techniques to get the information? Remember many will die if you cannot. Most people would answer yes.
The spin of the liberal media is our greatest enemy. It seems like it wants the destruction of America. Good luck to them once it is gone. The new world power may not be so friendly.
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LFRAgain
Ah, yes. Let's blame the media, another American historical tradition that seems to be just as irrelevant as the Constitution of the United States to the whimpering children that have usurped and poisoned the Grand Old Party . Once we've properly identified information sources as "The Enemy," we can work to shut them down a.s.a.p.
Do you really listen to yourself when you spout this garbage?
Let's say someone gets it into their head that the best person to get information from using torture is you, OneForAll, or your wife, son, or grandchild. Are you still gung ho for waterboarding?
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OneForAll
No, just fair reporting by the media. I gave you the scenario for the use of harsh interrogation techniques. That is all. You would not sacrifice thousands yourself. But you do make a fine point on how politicians can use emergencies to further their political ambitions and perhaps harass their political opponents.
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teleprompter
Odd. I don't remember anything of the sort.
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