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Torture by Mar Matthias Darin Torture and torture tactics have been in the news extensively lately. Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) has been a contentious issue for years. We face the precipice of oblivion in many ways... Terrorists are waging a war against society. 9/11 and the recent Mumbai attacks only serve to heighten the need for protection and the information to achieve it. We must ask ourselves some very difficult questions... How far will we go to get the protection we need. Is water-boarding and other methods an acceptable price to pay for this peace? How far will be go to protect our sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, and spouses? Where is the limit and how far is too far? What do you tell people that lost loved ones during 9/11 or Mumbai when the governments involved knew the threat was there but did nothing? Its time we pulled our heads out of the sand and faced the music... This is not an issue anyone wants to address, but we must. Each and every human being must answer these questions for themselves and the answers are not easy. Below is a movie that speaks of these issues, both directly and indirectly. I implore you to take the time to watch the movie, comment on it, and share the PermaLink to this article with everyone you know. Thousands died in 9/11 and 170+ in Mumbai. We can no longer hide our heads in the sand and dodge this issue. Here is the movie, Selling Torture, by Alex Jones and its about an hour long. This movie is disturbing and not safe for the kiddies. 
Top tags: movie, torture, issue, mumbai, heads, protection, questions, sand Comments from Julissa 61.17.177.48 I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often. Julissa Comments from Mar Matthias Darin Thank you. Comments from Mizé 85.240.42.228 Hello. I heard on the news that US government was thinking about closing Guantanamo. It´s about time, hã. The idea we get here is US prision system is very hard comparing to ours but police here also beats people. Sometimes, it´s on the news. I´m totally against violence. Violence generates violence and doesn´t solve anything. A good weekend. Comments from Frans Dagohoy 202.156.13.5 I think gitmo is a necessary evil because the terrorists will do all it can to inflict terror to mankind. Comments from The Fitness Diva 72.227.166.40 I think that it's not right to think that torture is an acceptable method under any circumstance. We really need to speak up against these things.... whether it's happening to our own or others. Wrong is wrong! There must be other ways to go about it. Comments from fwaggle 99.1.102.66 I just wanted to quickly respond to Frans: I suppose you think that when americans are kidnapped and tortured in the middle east that's okay too then? The people over there doing the same thing back would probably consider it a "necessary evil" too. There'd be a lot fewer wars in the world if people could stop and think that maybe... just maybe, the folks on the other side are as convinced as you are that they're right.... that the folks on the other side are equally as dedicated, patriotic and love their country just as much. Not to mention that information gained from torture is notoriously unreliable. Yes, 9/11 et al are obviously failings of our intelligence services - that does not mean the solution is "needz moar torture." Torture should be outlawed in the USA in all forms, particularly if we run around desperate to show the world that we're better than that. Torture *is* terrorism, and if you support it you support terrorism. Comments from Jesse Roland 12.176.209.182 Thanks so much for driving traffic to my site, didn't realize there was someone else with a message similar to mine... oh and Alex Jones is Awesome... Comments from grace 66.84.105.166 Hi, it is so nice to see a blog as informative as you have. Have a nice day. :) Comments from Mar Matthias Darin Jesse, grace: You're welcome. Comments from Texas Wanderer 99.178.184.120 Not long ago I watched a movie about the Scottish, English, and American POWs captured by the Japs during WWII who were taken to Thailand to build the railroad. In one of the scenes, to get information from one of the Scottish officers, they began to waterboard him. I got so mad I threw the remote at the TV and popped off to my Pinay wife something to the sort of "that is why we nuked them, because of behavior like that toward POWs". She agreed, as most people know there's not much love lost between the Japanese and Filipinos after the way they were treated as well. But then it dawned on me. The behavior by those Japanese soldiers that was so inciting me to such anger that I was happy we nuked them (killing tens of thousands of civilians), is the exact same thing that the USA is saying is NOT torture and that nearly 50% of my neighbors agree is "okay", "necessary", and needed to prevent terrorism. Now, if watching a movie about my GRANDFATHER'S generation about people I don't even know can rile me up so much, how do we think friends and family of people the USA tortures will react? Surely we, as a country, can't be that stupid. But unfortunately we are. A lot of times I don't blame my neighbors, the poor folks were lied to by people they never dreamed would lie, and fear was used to get them to give up their rights, ignore things that would usually upset them, and give up their values. Most people, when told a nuke is about to land on their head, would do anything to survive. So I don't blame them for their first reactions, and I don't even think I'm smarter than they are because I was like many of us who smelt something fishy from the beginning. Unless they had been to Iraq, they just didn't have a way ti know and had to rely on the people they put in charge of the country. But still, to this day, to support this propaganda and simply ignore our values about things such as civil rights, torture, and running up a deficit for our great, great, great grandchildren when there is no need, is morally and socially wrong, as well as criminal.
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