[gregwest]

A government that tortures non-citizens is only a small step away from torturing citizens. Who among you would like to be next...you never know when they'll start lining up Jews or Christians for questioning. Mormons already had a little taste of that in the 1840s, so don't think I can't happen in America.

Greg West

[angkor]

A government that tortures non-citizens is only a small step away from torturing citizens.

Quite aside from the article being discussed, the question is whether governments should torture non-military combatants (e.g., terrorists) who threaten to and do randomly murder that government's citizens.

Your premise is a false one.

[Peach]

I have a neighbor Greg West in SC - same guy?

[smoking camels]

gimme a friggin break!

[Mixer]

A government that tortures non-citizens is only a small step away from torturing citizens.

....and setting up concentration camps where they will quarnetine us away from our familes, women and children seperated from the men...right?

FR has heard all of the sky is falling and tin foil stories to last a lifetime.

[Gary Boldwater]

That is a concern. Look what FDR did to innocent Japanese Americans. My concern is: supposed the have innocent people in custody - do you think they're going to let them go once the mistake is realized? Do they want the world to know what happened? Are my grandkids going to be paying reparations as I had to to the Japanese Americans? I'm not against rough methods of interrogation at all, as long as the interrogators are answerable to the people they serve.