Recently on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann again named Bill O'Reilly as the Worst Person in the World. This time it was arguing that terrorists don't deserve rights, and should be arrested, tortured and shot on the spot, with no trial.
Apart from the fact that this breaks about a dozen laws and is blatantly fascist, this attitude also leaves no room for error or intelligence gathering. But I guess that is not important when the people whose rights are being violated are Arabs. Guantanamo has proven to be a terrorist incubator, and if any Muslims weren't terrorists when they went in, after 18 months of torture they sure were.
Any intelligence officer worth his salt would rather keep a terrorist alive and squeeze them for as much information as possible. In addition, torture has been proven not to work. As I have mentioned before, if you shove a hot poker into someone's eye, he will probably tell you whatever you want to hear.
Maybe someone should tell the people at FOX, that "24" is a fiction show, and Jack Bauer's methods don't work in the real world.
Maybe someone should tell the people at FOX, that "24" is a fiction show, and Jack Bauer's methods don't work in the real world.
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