Would you classify this as torture?

Dr Kynes

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the video only shows the culmination of the events.

dippledink isnt an innocent victim, he escalated the shit by spitting and requiring restraints and a dose of pepper spray.

he earned every lump, and it may be shocking to the senisbilities, but that droog didnt wind up in slam for violating curfew, and the riot squad didnt take him down to chinatown for leaving his bible open to the wrong Verse of the Day

listen too the droog and you can hear him admit he did that shit to himself through hubris and stupidity.

he's lucky they didnt throw him down with the sodomites.
 

Canna Sylvan

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the video only shows the culmination of the events.

dippledink isnt an innocent victim, he escalated the shit by spitting and requiring restraints and a dose of pepper spray.

he earned every lump, and it may be shocking to the senisbilities, but that droog didnt wind up in slam for violating curfew, and the riot squad didnt take him down to chinatown for leaving his bible open to the wrong Verse of the Day

listen too the droog and you can hear him admit he did that shit to himself through hubris and stupidity.

he's lucky they didnt throw him down with the sodomites.
I seriously hope you're trolling. As much of a whiny bitch the OP is, once you get control of the situation, it's uncalled for to " tune 'em up" because your pig pride was hurt cause the other proved his dick was way bigger.

Don't get me wrong. Whatever he did which pissed off the pigs like that, I'd kill him for it. But that's the pig's job. He chose it, he knew that was a possibility. I have no sympathy for criminals, nor pigs.

A pig will do this even if you're innocent but they lost face, you pay. That is why I NEVER talk to pigs and consider them scum. I laugh at these pigs. The criminal scum there won.
 

Padawanbater2

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the video only shows the culmination of the events.

dippledink isnt an innocent victim, he escalated the shit by spitting and requiring restraints and a dose of pepper spray.

he earned every lump, and it may be shocking to the senisbilities, but that droog didnt wind up in slam for violating curfew, and the riot squad didnt take him down to chinatown for leaving his bible open to the wrong Verse of the Day

listen too the droog and you can hear him admit he did that shit to himself through hubris and stupidity.

he's lucky they didnt throw him down with the sodomites.
This is interesting, you justify the officers actions by, admittedly, the criminals [unknown] past behavior?

In your opinion, why do you feel he "earned every lump"?

In my opinion, I think he just started admitting to anything he thought would get him out of that situation. It was stupid of him to act tough in the beginning, but I'm not sure that warrants 17 minutes of, what I would classify as torture. I'm not sure someone who has never been around pepper spray can empathize with that, but I remember once, my dad sprayed some in the sink in his bedroom bathroom, connected to the kitchen, dining room, living room, other bedrooms and other bathroom. It took 10 minutes to spread throughout the house, I was coughing for 4 hours! I'd imagine getting sprayed in the face would be the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The other guy held his head forward, then covered it with a towel..
 

nitro harley

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I watched all 17.32 minutes....

I don't think they left a mark on him, It looks like they got him to tap.....Hopefully he forgets about it when they let him out....
 

Harrekin

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I watched all 17.32 minutes....

I don't think they left a mark on him, It looks like they got him to tap.....Hopefully he forgets about it when they let him out....
To me it looks like he got pepper sprayed and had a cover put over his mouth to stop him spitting at people.

Its harsh, but prison officers need show no fear nor weakness.

You can say what you want about cops, etc but most prison officers are decent people and treat prisoners as real people but at the same time, they can't be seen to be weak or powerless.

Given he doesn't seem like he was beaten at all, I'd say its a necessary evil.
 

Doer

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Just a label. No one know what torture is any more, apparently. It's a lost term. And the label. What we do is reduce it all to good and bad, that's where we are headed. Only Good/Bad, like Cavemen. Like a Christian. And many are already there. Can't think for labeling, market segmenting, and just calling names. TORTURER!!!

And to act like torture is a bad thing in all cases is truly missing the point. To have torture Watch....is this it, it that it?

Is it torture to put a hood on a falcon at wrist, or is it the best thing for him? The falcon is incarcerated and needs to calm down before someone gets hurt. TORTURER!!!!

Aren't hand cuffs torture? I sure hate it! Listening to my wife? TORTURER!!!

Listen. America is racist, and we do torture....along with the rest of the world. We try to be a bit better and more restrained, less racist more inclusive, etc, but what we fight and why we torture, has not changed.

We just like to raise the little childern to think we don't. Then adults that find out and know why. Or they just fret and wring their hands.

Is constraint the same as torture? Fear? If Fear is torture, it is this inmate that is torturing his wardens. AIDS spits AIDS.
 

Doer

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tor·ture

/ˈtôrCHər/


Noun

The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.
Verb
Inflict severe pain on.
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Severe pain. Not emotional truama....like waterboarding...not torture at all. PAIN. SEVERE. (I'll add INJURY, most likely)

The Inquisition could draw no blood, so they did not call bone breaking, torture.

Come on folks. Everyone knows what that is.

I think the problem is simple and we make it worse.
 

Harrekin

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Just a label. No one know what torture is any more, apparently. It's a lost term. And the label. What we do is reduce it all to good and bad, that's where we are headed. Only Good/Bad, like Cavemen. Like a Christian. And many are already there. Can't think for labeling, market segmenting, and just calling names. TORTURER!!!

And to act like torture is a bad thing in all cases is truly missing the point. To have torture Watch....is this it, it that it?

Is it torture to put a hood on a falcon at wrist, or is it the best thing for him? The falcon is incarcerated and needs to calm down before someone gets hurt. TORTURER!!!!

Aren't hand cuffs torture? I sure hate it! Listening to my wife? TORTURER!!!

Listen. America is racist, and we do torture....along with the rest of the world. We try to be a bit better and more restrained, less racist more inclusive, etc, but what we fight and why we torture, has not changed.

We just like to raise the little childern to think we don't. Then adults that find out and know why. Or they just fret and wring their hands.

Is constraint the same as torture? Fear? If Fear is torture, it is this inmate that is torturing his wardens. AIDS spits AIDS.
Torture is slicing a persons body with a knife, inflicting burns, pulling off people's fingernails, "knee-capping"...etc.

Pepper spray and a gag?

Bitch please.
 

Doer

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The problem is we don't understand why the world resents America. We never have. We try and we want to get along because the Populist view is so compelling. We are all just neighbors and the Earth is our neighborhood...kum, by, ya.

Wrong. And that is why the world hates us. We are wrong about even the reason and that makes it worse. We think the world is jealous, we have so much (because we are such arrogant Protestants by and large.)

The world see us differently... think about that in your populist view of Earth and neighbors. They see us as full of shit. Acting like we have done what they know is impossible. No racial preferences, no torture, all human rights.

Oh bullshit the world says. You think you are superior to us just because you have these dumb ideas.

While the world struggles with Parliaments and worse, we sit here and preach about torture and race, and the rights of Man. We have the best credit but we squander that. Our society can't even muster a lot of nationalism these days, two language schooling, Diversity. We are a laughing stock. I know this. I get told it. I ask for it.

When I hire foreign workers I'm very much the manager. I want to know what they think about the USA, the deep stuff.

They don't hate us as much as see that we are fooling ourselves and very, very un-realistic.

It's simple. To us we are tying to get to an ideal we can never achieve...the pursuit of happiness for ALL. We want to sincerely end in-equalities, to the point WE so get confused. WE think that is possible.

But, world see us differently. Crazy, out of control...but most important, that we somehow see, we are better, just because we try for this and want this World Peace.

To the world, however, it say, the USA acts like you have it already, yet we know you don't.

Poor Americans think, they don't like us because we are firm with our prisoners. We torture, we are racist. That is why they don't like us. Right???

Wrong. It's because we clam we could have these things, but to them they see it as a claim we already possess those things.

We don't even know why the world does not like us. We then think we can fix it. But, we don't know the cause.
 

Harrekin

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Just leave the military at home and keep bringing us movies (but stop this remake bullshit, please, Robocop didn't need to be remade...there'll only ever be one Dick Jones!!) then the world will love you again.
 

Doer

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Yes, but we don't really want that. We want the world to embrace the American Way, we say. But, we don't really want that either.

No, when we win, we set up Parliaments. We don't allow another 3 legged, bi-camerae, Federated Democracy....do we?

WE want only one thing, survival of our system. No way WE will allow a competitor to create a govt like ours.

And the world is sure, our form is so unique to our circumstances, they dare not try, especially since they know we are against it.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Torture is slicing a persons body with a knife, inflicting burns, pulling off people's fingernails, "knee-capping"...etc.

Pepper spray and a gag?

Bitch please.
Torture is the act of inflicting on a person what that person fears. Since fear is psychological, the credible threat is indistinguishable from the act. Doer pointed out the sophistry involved in redefining torture to allow dreadful acts (waterboarding, bone-breaking) to evade some official definition.
Torture is whatever the recipient/victim thinks it is. cn
 

*BUDS

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I don't understand why the big heros are dressed in full riot gear for a a skinny man strapped to a wheelchair, quite rediculous.
 

Doer

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Umm...strictly speaking what you describe is Torment. And indeed torment is often a big dose of terror, to go with some physical discomfort to amplify the terrible torment.

So, waterboarding is torment. The Inquisition, breaking bones that will never heal, correctly, is torture. Don't need blood for torture.

It is a fine line to be sure. I draw it at this line. Does the torment result in lasting physical disability? A broken bone, not even smashed, well set, is 10 weeks or more of lasting physical disability.

Mental disabilities will result from torment, and we can be tormented to death. But, it is done in such a way, in the modern world, you will be revived. A Doctor is standing by, if you do end up drowning on a water board. Still Torment. Not torture. In fact, I'm pretty sure water boarding is a punishment for lies.

Not torture. You are not questioned. It's silent cold. And there is a big fat medical corpsman sitting there reading porn.

I believe they actual drown you into un-consciousness, then revive you. OK? Ready to go? (not to you, to your drowning personnel)

They might kill you several times in one session. But, look mom, no torture. Just Torment for lying.
 

Doer

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Oh, another point. I really dis-like the self described element of our culture. I deal with it everyday. If someone thinks something is in-appropriate that makes it so. If they insist my wife and family in bathing suits at the beach offends them and they report it, It's offensive.

Now the Muslims want to take that into blasphemy. They want self described hurt, end in the death penalty for insulting Islam.

So, I don't agree that torture is in the mind of the victim. That's torment. Some hate rock and roll. It's torment, not torture this, busgggey, wooogey, music. :)
 

Harrekin

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Torture is the act of inflicting on a person what that person fears. Since fear is psychological, the credible threat is indistinguishable from the act. Doer pointed out the sophistry involved in redefining torture to allow dreadful acts (waterboarding, bone-breaking) to evade some official definition.
Torture is whatever the recipient/victim thinks it is. cn
Nah, that's not legitimate torture or torture torture
 

Padawanbater2

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I think someone who doesn't believe this is torture who was subjugated to it would quickly change their mind, as they would with waterboarding.

Obstructing your airway while you're restrained is absolutely torture.

Handcuffing you to a tree for 3 days is torture.

Depriving you of sleep for a week is torture.

You do not need to cause someone physical pain in order to torture them, there is also psychological torture.
 
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