Portland Press Herald - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is joining the debate over the Senate’s torture report by saying it’s hard to rule out the use of extreme measures to extract information if millions of lives were threatened.
Scalia told a Swiss broadcast network that American and European liberals who say such tactics may never be used are being self-righteous.
The 78-year-old justice said he doesn’t “think it’s so clear at all,” especially if interrogators were trying to find a ticking nuclear bomb...
“Listen, I think it’s very facile for people to say, ‘Oh, torture is terrible.’ You posit the situation where a person that you know for sure knows the location of a nuclear bomb that has been planted in Los Angeles and will kill millions of people. You think it’s an easy question? You think it’s clear that you cannot use extreme measures to get that information out of that person?” Scalia said.
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Just had a moment's disorientation: we are discussing whether torture is appropriate. We are debating the propriety of torture. Whether torture should be done to human beings.
A few busloads of sixth-graders with rubber mallets set upon our august leaders could settle this issue in an afternoon - 48 hours at the most. And who wouldn't pay to see Scalia or Cheney wheeled into Walter Reed with an icepack on their noggin?
Scalia's argument here is disgustingly disingenuous as per usual from that disgusting creature.
There's a nuke hidden in LA?
Scopalamine.
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