Okay, enough of this...

[PsyOps]

Define torture.

[Nonno]

Originally Posted by PsyOps

Define torture.

""I forgot to mention last night that following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding," he told reporters at a campaign event.

"If the United States is in another conflict ... and we have allowed that kind of torture to be inflicted upon people we hold captive, then there is nothing to prevent that enemy from also torturing American prisoners."

McCain is referencing the Tokyo Trials, officially known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. After World War II, an international coalition convened to prosecute Japanese soldiers charged with torture. At the top of the list of techniques was water-based interrogation, known variously then as "water cure," "water torture" and "waterboarding," according to the charging documents. It simulates drowning. "

More at: PolitiFact | History supports McCain's stance on waterboarding

[Baja28]

Originally Posted by PsyOps

Define torture.

Making you and your buddies form a nekkid pyramid while a fugly American chick points and laughs at your lil wee wee.

[PsyOps]

Originally Posted by Nonno

""I forgot to mention last night that following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding," he told reporters at a campaign event.

"If the United States is in another conflict ... and we have allowed that kind of torture to be inflicted upon people we hold captive, then there is nothing to prevent that enemy from also torturing American prisoners."

McCain is referencing the Tokyo Trials, officially known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. After World War II, an international coalition convened to prosecute Japanese soldiers charged with torture. At the top of the list of techniques was water-based interrogation, known variously then as "water cure," "water torture" and "waterboarding," according to the charging documents. It simulates drowning. "

More at: PolitiFact | History supports McCain's stance on waterboarding

So, was it okay to execute them? Especially by hanging? Isn't that a form of torture?

[bcp (Premo)]

having your eyelids stapled so they cant close, then being forced to listen to Boy George CDs while Rosie Odonell dances naked just inches from your face thats duct taped to the chair so you cant move.

couple minutes of that and Ill claim Im a gay priest just to make it stop.

[Ken King (Premo)]

Originally Posted by PsyOps

Define torture.

I think the legislature has taken care of that for us.

“torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control

They even went ahead and defined "severe mental pain or suffering" too, just so there wouldn't be any confusion.

“severe mental pain or suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from—

(A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering;

(B) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality;

(C) the threat of imminent death; or

(D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality.

[chernmax (Premo)]

Torture is defined as MOM raising MD state taxes to 6% during an economic crises, sky high gas prices, and excepting every cent of the economic stimulus bill to fund a slew of new social welfare programs that once funding runs out from the stimulus bill will then have to be funded through more taxes on the backs of the state residents under the conditions of acceptance!!!

Originally Posted by chernmax

Torture is defined as MOM raising MD state taxes to 6% during an economic crises, sky high gas prices, and excepting every cent of the economic stimulus bill to fund a slew of new social welfare programs that once funding runs out from the stimulus bill will then have to be funded through more taxes on the backs of the state residents under the conditions of acceptance!!!

Education and emergency services are social welfare programs?

[toppick08 (Premo)]

Being locked in a sealed room with Billy Mays' commercials running nonstop at a high volume..

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Beaver-Cleaver

Education and emergency services are social welfare programs?

to a certain extent they are. that just cant be denied.

The difference is that everybody benifits from those, and everybody at some point wants them.

now if the money is being fairly distributed among the masses is another issue completely.