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A Few Techniques Come to Mind...

By Dusty (AKA Attila of Argghhh!) on October 13, 2004 | | Comments (2)

Yeah, I'd like to probe some Chechen terrorists, too.

If this ever happened in my neck of the woods, I would ask they turn the perps over to the local neighborhood dads for one day. I'll supply the chairs, piano wire, blowtorches and forks...for counseling. They may not take us up on it, but there's no harm in asking.

Grrrrrr....

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By Justthisguy on October 13, 2004 11:49 PM
Um, let us please avoid the really revolting stuff, even against people whose guts we hate. I think that would have nasty effects on the minds of our own folks who did that. Let me suggest that we keep to weird sneaky devious psychological techniques, known to any sharp cop, and if that doesn't work, "Take 'im for a swim," or, as the robot Tik-Tok put it in the SF novel, (I'm paraphrasing here) " I learned how to get humans to make voluntary statements from the IRS. If you hold a human's head under water for a while, and let him up to breathe just before he's about to drown, he might make a voluntary statement, if asked." Myself, I think all that torture and coercion is disgusting and revolting. However, if yer gonna do it, stick the guy's head in a bucket of CLEAN water (suburban pool quality, at least) not like the Secret Police in Vietnam and Argentina (and Japan in the 1500s) where they used sewage.
 
By cw4billt on October 14, 2004 2:32 PM
Personally, I've always liked the ol' wet-towel-wrapped-around-the-face-trick: it conserves resources (you only need a couple of quarts of water), the guy doesn't splash H2O all over you when he thrashes (memo to self: get socks out of dryer) and you can do truly imaginative things with electricity without worrying about jolting your buddies ('nother memo to self: poke around the shed and find those old capacitors)...of course, if one of the perps of the Beslan massacre were the subject, I wouldn't start the "So, shall we have a chat?" portion for a week or three...
 
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