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HalfMooner
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 Posted - 10/06/2007 : 19:55:00
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"For six decades, they held their silence." On October 5, 2007, two dozen surviving World War II POW interrogators, men of the "Greatest Generation," got together and broke that silence: Back then, they and their commanders wrestled with the morality of bugging prisoners' cells with listening devices. They felt bad about censoring letters. They took prisoners out for steak dinners to soften them up. They played games with them.
"We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/06/2007 20:18:34
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Ghost_Skeptic
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Posted - 10/06/2007 : 23:50:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
"For six decades, they held their silence." On October 5, 2007, two dozen surviving World War II POW interrogators, men of the "Greatest Generation," got together and broke that silence: Back then, they and their commanders wrestled with the morality of bugging prisoners' cells with listening devices. They felt bad about censoring letters. They took prisoners out for steak dinners to soften them up. They played games with them.
"We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. |
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But torture is a better way to get prisoners to tell their interrogators what the prisoners thnik the interrogators want to hear. |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 10/07/2007 : 03:44:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ghost_Skeptic
Originally posted by HalfMooner
"For six decades, they held their silence." On October 5, 2007, two dozen surviving World War II POW interrogators, men of the "Greatest Generation," got together and broke that silence: Back then, they and their commanders wrestled with the morality of bugging prisoners' cells with listening devices. They felt bad about censoring letters. They took prisoners out for steak dinners to soften them up. They played games with them.
"We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. |
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But torture is a better way to get prisoners to tell their interrogators what the prisoners thnik the interrogators want to hear.
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True, especially important when it's not the truth you want to know in the first place.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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The Rat
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Posted - 10/08/2007 : 14:07:29 [Permalink]
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| Torture also makes you feel soooooo powerful and superior. And if you can't get it up or your wife chewed you out for having too many beers, hey, take it out on that 'sand nigger' the guys just dragged in! All better! |
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You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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How America's interrogators worked in WWII
