Then help me out. Why did the torture of the same people at Abu Ghraib go on for months? Surely they broke in seconds right?
The experts are the people actually doing this stuff. The ones actually questioning prisoners and suspects. The ones who actually do this work.
Alan West decided to try his hand at it. He allowed a Prisoner to be roughed up. And the execution of the prisoner was staged. The prisoner began babbling and naming names. Only. None of the names were actually terrorists. None. That is what happens. The real life experiences of Alan West. The real story. The actual history backing up the experience of others.
But let’s look to the tough guys. The folks who think that the Miranda Warning is scream all you want. We don’t care.
The Soviets had a Serial Killer.
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He wasn’t broken by the usual techniques. He wasn’t broken by intimidation or coercion. Even roughing him up had no effect. He was broken in two hours by someone using the effective techniques. Nine days with no success. Two hours to success.
Wood chipper? What happens if he doesn’t start talking in sixty seconds? You have to follow through on the threat. You have to feed him to the chipper. And then the information is lost. If you don’t. He knows you are not seriously going to kill him.
And he will have beaten you.
You said you were a Soldier. I say you were a cook or supply clerk if you were ever in. Something far to the rear removed from danger. Otherwise you would understand such things better. You would have been trained.
But that isn’t the real reason I doubt you. You would have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution.
You would have understood that half of the Bill of Rights had to do with trials and accusations. The rights of the accused mattered so much to the founders they had multiple amendments to protect those rights. Not just one.
There is one amendment covering all the freedom of expression rights. One for speech, press, religion, taking your grievances to the government, and assembly.
There is one amendment that covers guns. One.
The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth, cover rights of the accused and conduct of the courts.
You denounce those rights as caring more about the criminals than the victims. I say I care more about the Constitution than your sadistic delusions. And so did the Founders.