Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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You've been waterboarded, or participated in medical research to determine
that? Or are you just pushing the party line?


Have you?

Eisboch




Nope, but I'm bright enough to realize that when someone feels as if
they are being drowned deliberately by someone else, it is torture.

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is
"any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental,
is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining
from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him
for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having
committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any
reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering
is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or
acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official
capacity."