U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia: Torture Is Not Punishment

[callouschristian]

Scalia....the republican activist judge (treasonist) who voted to make corporations "individuals". Republicans are the downfall of america. Complete terrorists in league with the zionist jews against america.

[jpete3027666]

What a sack of shit. It's all symantics. 

[klard]

How did we ever get such a clown on the highest court of the nation?

[friedricemonster]

@klard Dig up Regan and ask him.

[Enoemen]

Scalia is full of it. Alexander Hamilton, whom he so deeply admires, did not allow any torture of British soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Scalia knows nothing, I'm ashamed he spoke at my high school graduation. How would he like it if he were arrested and tortured? Well as long as they're not 'punishing' him, I guess it's perfectly legal.

[kamphwagon1]

@Enoemen He's just makeing a high minded ,definition of punishmet according to whats written in the constitution avoiding the real legal issue of whether any laws were broken,theres not only US law but international law against it when dealing with enemy combatans and once a treaty is sighned and ratifyed it becomes our law as well !

[chowchow987]

or arrested

[chowchow987]

quick fix "say the truth and don't get tortured"

quick fix "don't particitpate in phsycal confrontation against america or a cop and don't get tortured or shot or beat"

[happyinnanaimo]

Punish - "to suffer for offence". The detainees are made to suffer for the offence of not giving their torturers the information they want. A similar case would be a parent punishing their child for not telling the truth.

[DJSkyede]

Yeah, the Constitution is vague about a lot of things, maybe because the Framers thought we would be capable of using our heads and didn't feel they should have to spell out D-E-C-E-N-C-Y for us in black and white, using small words and step-by-step instructions, in a tome as large as War and Peace. If the Constitution bars torture as a form of state-administered punishment after the intense scrutiny of the legal process has run its course, then of course it prohibits it in any other context.

[FODvideos]

The point in torture isn't supposed to be a punishment, it's a method of extracting information albeit brutally. Not that I'm condoning it, but you should really check your dictionary before spewing dialogue left right and centre :)

I think he's just stating the obvious.

[JurisLupinus]

It's a legitimate argument: the fact of the matter is that language is not definite, and the Constitution is vague about a lot of things. What I want to know is why the reporter didn't argue that the officer is punishing you for not giving up the info.

[robislost]

Reading this drivel was punishment