rss58 Percent of U.S. Voters Want to Waterboard Failed Christmas Bomber
Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 11:56 am
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Don’t expect any charitable feelings around the holidays. According to a new Rasmussen national telephone survey, 58 percent of U.S. voters say they’d support using waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques to extract information from the failed Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber.
Just 30 percent oppose using such methods on the 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly attempted to blow up a plane en route to Detroit on Christmas Day. Twelve percent are not sure.
Male and younger voters are more supportive of aggressive techniques than women and older voters, and Republicans and independents favor using them more than Democrats, Rasmussen reports.
What’s more, 71 percent of U.S. voters think that Abdulmutallab should be investigated by military authorities as a terrorist, rather than being treated as a civilian. Only 22 percent say he should be treated as a civilian criminal, which is his current status.
Abdulmutallab has been charged with attempting to blow up an aircraft and kill U.S. civilians by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan.
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Comment posted December 31, 2009 @ 11:59 am
heh. You soy soaked lefties just do not understand, so you?
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Comment posted December 31, 2009 @ 4:59 pm
TORTURE this guy long enough, he'll admit to starting the Chicago fire. He admitted everything we need to know. TORTURING him will only fuel the fires of religious hatred. Seems it has already worked here.
Want another attempt at “terrorism”? This is the way to do it.
Seems YOU don't get it yet.
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[...] anyone, and we certainly don’t need to waterboard the suspect (as Dick Cheney, Tom Ridge, and 58 percent of Americans seem to want.) We need to improve coordination between American and foreign intelligence agencies, [...]
Comment posted January 1, 2010 @ 7:24 pm
If you want to torture this guy because you think his actions warrant sado-masochism as a punishment, you're entitled to your opinion and it speaks volumes about your character. If, on the other hand, you think torturing him will produce intel, all of the experts say you are wrong. When it comes to interrogation torture is strictly for amateurs.
Comment posted January 2, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
This is most discouraging. Do people not care anything for the rule of law, never mind ethics or our country's reputation in the world? Torture is always wrong – always – without exception, and besides it doesn't work. The most horrific criminals have been successfully tried and punished using our over-200-year-old civilian legal system. The military is already far too involved in civilian affairs. This young man should be tried as a criminal, and fairly and humanely treated. If we become savages, the terrorists win.
Comment posted January 2, 2010 @ 8:19 pm
This is most discouraging. Do people not care anything for the rule of law, never mind ethics or our country's reputation in the world? Torture is always wrong – always – without exception, and besides it doesn't work. The most horrific criminals have been successfully tried and punished using our over-200-year-old civilian legal system. The military is already far too involved in civilian affairs. This young man should be tried as a criminal, and fairly and humanely treated. If we become savages, the terrorists win.
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