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In his Oct. 22 letter, “Questions could mean our survival,” Percy Conarroe expresses his strong opposition to limits on the forms of interrogation used on a suspect we “think” has crucial information on a terrorist attack.
I ask him to consider this scenario: The government “thinks” his son or daughter has critical information about a terrorist attack on an American city. Since he is “not ready to surrender to the jihadists,” what types of interrogation techniques is Conarroe willing to have his child face in order to prove his or her innocence?

David Hirsch, Littleton

READER COMMENTS

how about placing your balls between two bricks and waiting to have them compressed with a slow turning vise? would that make her talk?

David Hirsch,
Even making up this stupid scenario is an attempt to spread fear and keep the public terrorized. I'll quote..."the government thinks his son"... You are obviously part of the plot to spread these rediculous scenarios. Who are
you working for? AIPAC? The Mossad? Do you want us to go after your enemies for you?
Here is a perfect example of the chamelion agents operating here in the U.S. to spread fear and terror.

Oh no we must never even question the intentions of those who hate America and the west. Why they are all loving and peaceful, it is us who are the hatefull.

If it were my kid, they would be happy if the government questioned them instead of me.

This liberal B.S. about we cannot protect ourselves is all bunk. Liberals scream from the top of their lungs about things but when it happens to them they are the first to DEMAND action.

As far as the letter writer being a plant. Another conspirocy theorist. Are there black helicopters hovering over the Rocky Mountain news building? I don't think so you nutjob!

Although the "balls, bricks and vice" technique has certain appeal, I am a proponent of the "jumper cables, scrotum and a Peterbilt truck battery" as the most effective incentivzing procedure.

The blabbing starts--more than you really want to know--the second the jumper cables are brought into the room and the truck is started.

I'm sure the hypothetical son/daughter will confess to making night fall, or killing JonBenet Ramsey, if the voltage is high enough.

Fearmongers use yes/no questions on Jack Bauer scenarios to frame the atmosphere of fear. If you answer yes, you validate the need to be afraid, if you say no, then you support killing innocent Americans.

Repukes prove yet again that they have no morality and are the lowest form of scum on he planet.

Is this what the torture debate has come to, asking hypothetical questions that cannot possibly come true? Stop watching 24, it is distorting your sense of reality.

Lets examine your scenario a little closer. The Government thinks someone has information about a future attack...Does the government have the right to torture? Well, the government had a REAL attack that happened on 9-11. Someone knew in advance of the attack, as was revealed by the Odigo warning. Yet, did the government torture the CEO of the Odigo Corporation to reveal who warned certain people not to go to work that fateful day? No. So why would I trust the government to obtain crucial information by torture in some future, hypothetical situation?

LOON!

Better to set the policy with no torture, and if torture illegally stops a fantasy attack, it is still illegal.

Set the bar low enough, and suspect citizens become terrorists tortured for our "freedom".

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