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The torturing leverage of the torturee is the information that the torturer needs, and by the torturee’s withholding the torturee is torturing the torurer.â€
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The torturing leverage of the torturee is the information that the torturer needs, and by the torturee’s withholding the torturee is torturing the torurer.
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Ultimately, the only definition of what is or is not torture, is determined between the torturer and the torturee.
Think Progress » CPAC audience boos former GOP Rep. Bob Barr for saying waterboarding is torture. 2010
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Further, dressing up like a rabbit with a bow tie and surprising the torturee with a basket of chocolate eggs may only be done on Easter, or on other rabbit related holidays.
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Just how did this Murder by torture provide valuable information if the torturee dies?
In Quasi-Sorta-Defense of the Washington Post’s Torture Piece Actually, Just: No. | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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Or that you have frightened people who want revenge...even if the torturee has no information.
Torture, West Point, and "C" Steven Barnes 2007
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Or that you have frightened people who want revenge...even if the torturee has no information.
Archive 2007-05-01 Steven Barnes 2007
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Ms. A., no-one thinks you thought that the person formerly known as Jose Padilla was likely to 'blink in code'; as I recall, you were making the point that it was not IMPOSSIBLE to imagine a reason why the govt would want to put goggles on the unindited torturee.
Vote. Ann Althouse 2006
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That torture the torturee’s is provocation for the torturer to to humanely and effectively apply pain to the torturee to relieve the torturee of the leverage he is using to torture the torturer.
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The torturee is torturing the torturer by withholding information that the torturer needs.
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