Feinstein fails to convince America that interrogations were wrong
Chief Tango sends us a link to a piece from former Bush speech writer Mark Thiessen in the Washington Post which took a poll just before Christmas in regards to “enhanced interrogation techniques” and the report that Dianne Feinstein rushed out to the media after Democrats lost the Senate which condemned the CIA. The Post found that the report didn’t effect most Americans’ opinion of the use of those techniques;
Americans were asked, “Looking ahead, do you feel that torture of suspected terrorists can often be justified, sometimes justified, rarely justified or never justified?”
Note that the pollsters used the loaded word “torture” (even though the CIA contends that the techniques did not constitute torture), which should have biased the question in favor of the critics. Instead, 17 percent replied they would support using the techniques “often,” 40 percent “sometimes” and 19 percent “rarely.” Only 20 percent said the techniques should “never” be justified.
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Indeed, the poll shows that Feinstein and the opponents of CIA interrogations have actually lost ground over the past five years. In April 2009, the Pew Poll asked almost the exact same question. Back then, 71 percent said they would support enhanced interrogation (15 percent “often”; 34 percent “sometimes”; 22 percent “rarely”).
Only 25 percent said “never.” So in five years, we’ve seen a 5 percentage point shift in support of enhanced interrogation.
Kind of sounds like the gun control debate doesn’t it? The more the left yammers about a subject, the more political they look and the more they lose Americans. Clearly, they don’t listen to Americans, they tell us how to feel and think about issues. The Left is so accustomed to preaching to us from their bubble, they don’t even know that they’re out of touch with their constituency.
I’m going to miss them a little.
Category: Terror War
In a similar vein, regarding the Left, I see that Harvard professors are pissed. It seems that their beloved obamacare has hit home. They are paying more for their healthcare and are not at all happy. In fact, some of them are enraged, calling it a pay cut, in effect. Imagine that. For thee, yes, but for me, no.
To go along with that, the black thugs in NYC and Oakland, Ca. are doing the same thing. The “group” #BlackBrunch has managed to piss off their white friends, and shut down Weazelzippers. They decided to intrude on people’s brunches yesterday, and subject them to a reading of the names of blacks who managed to get dead at the hands of “police officer, security officer or self-appointed vigilante”, then force the whites who were eating to stand in solidarity with them.
There’s a link to their plan at PJ Media. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/01/05/conservative-blog-hacked-for-posting-top-secret-racist-blackbrunch-protest-manual/
I read their little email or whatever it is. It states that every 28 hours, a black person is killed by a police officer, security officer or self-appointed vigilante.
I did some fact checking of my own and in 2012, 2412 blacks were killed by fellow blacks. That equates to a tad bit more than 1 black death every 4 hours. Compared to 1 every 28 hours, it looks like they are little rougher on themselves than the police officers, security officers or self-appointed vigilantes.
Just sayin…
That’s funny, the ‘manifesto’ I mean. If black lives matter, why do so many blacks kill blacks and why are there so very many blacks having abortions? Inquiring minds want to know–but don’t really give a shit.
Oh, I left out the part about black police officers having to shoot black thugs. To hear the Left, one would think that only white officers shoot only black thugs.
I look at it from a purely legal standpoint. US citizens enjoy the full protection of the US Constitution (including the Bill of Rights). Hostile fighters who meet the internationally-agreed-upon definition of “legal combatants” and make a legitimate effort to respect international laws concerning warfare, treatment of civilians, and treatment of POWs are protected by international law.
Those who fail to meet that definition and/or disregard the aforementioned international laws (i.e. Al Qaeda, IS, Al Shabab, Hamas, and pretty much every other terror group out there): Which one do you want to try first? Car battery, pliers, butane torch, or ball-peen hammer? And once you’re done, feed ’em to the pigs.
What Whitey said.
I distrust people who wait for decades, cherry-pick the facts, and then argue that good-faith decisions on difficult moral issues were in fact immoral. It is like going back and trying to prosecute a crime after all the evidence is degraded and the witnesses are dead. You can do anything with a record like that, especially if you add a whopping dose of speculation.
Further, this business of redefining everything into something entirely different results in remarkably stupid conclusions. There was a time when “torture” meant doing serious and permanent harm to a human being. Now it means irritating them. This is trivial thinking.
“This is trivial thinking.”
At best …
Funny how all those torture techniques were part of my SERE training, except I went to a winter wonderland in the Rangeley Mountains in Maine, yassuh. In March. People’s Pond was frozen to the bottom, so we got the smoke instead of the waterboard.
Screw Dianne Feinstein.
Feinstein is not so bad, all things considered.
Look at some of the others.
But she was out of line.
Political pressure, if you will.