Scalia: Torture Is Not Unconstitutional
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Uploaded by frickprogress on Apr 28, 2008
In a 60 Minutes interview, Justice Scalia says torture does not violate the 8th amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishment."
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@FootDanielLight The Constitution as originally understood could have been specifying punishment as penalty for a crime. Torture, while being an ambiguous term is a technique used in Interrogation. Interrogation is not a penalty for a crime, but part of a investigatory process in identifying who will be prosecuted and then punished for the crime.
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So unless the torturer says "this is your punishment for not telling me the truth" it's not cruel or unusual to beat a person to death?
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@DBMunplugged You just got intellectually destroyed. And your grammar is on par with the likes of an inner city high school student.
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@dragan221 Cruel and unusual punishment is expressly forbidden in the constitution. I think it's pretty obvious that torture is punishment for not following a certain pattern of behavior
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Bah, whoever posted this is too stupid to distinguish punishment from violence, and can't tell his dick from his elbow if he thinks that what Scalia is saying means that he thinks torture is unconstitutional.
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@live4pce Run by...? Dude, what planet are you living on? And if you are a citizen of US, why the hell don't you know how your country works?
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his grandson is a great boy
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@zerogullibility And this relate to the arguments how? Classic ad hominem.
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what's the policeman punishing you for? He's punishing you for not telling him the information that he wants.
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@live4pce He didn't justify torture. He said that it is not unconstitutional, which is correct. It is not his job to decide what is justified and by the way what does "justified" even mean? If you think that the job of a supreme court justice is to decide what is morally justified or not then you do not understand the separation of powers. If you want to make torture unconstitutional, fine, pass an amendment that says so explicitly.
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@DBMunplugged Simple typing error on my part, but you realize the point I was trying to make. Torture is illegal for a reason and its people like this who try and justify it that give this country a bad name. I didn't go to a community college. I'm guessing that is supposed to be an insult because I have a different opinion than you? Good day.
live4pce 2 months ago