Detectives in Britain are being investigated for waterboarding suspects arrested for possession of large amounts of the reefer. (Via BoingBoing).
As I said, I wonder how long it’ll be till we start hearing rumors swirling around that this is happening here. Not because I think that the police are just itching to degrade into barbarity, but because we’ve lowered the bar.
It ain’t torture, remember, it’s “enhanced interrogation.” So that hurdle is just cleared, it’s been written off. And remember, the use of enhanced interrogation is (supposedly) based on necessity; it isn’t a question of whether it is proper anymore, rather the question is whether it is necessary. Given the import that is consistently assigned to the War on Drugs (failed though it may be), I honestly wonder how long it’ll be before foreign-nationals accused of drug smuggling are targeted with enhanced interrogation.
I mean, who’d be against it? [/snark on] These are the people selling to the children, smuggling things through the borders, thumbing their noses at the law. We’re all safer by some immeasurable quantum if their off the street, and this is only the same tactics utilized by SERE.[/snark off]