Protesting for Tibetan freedom make you look like a hero in United State but doing it in China is just asking to be water boarded.

Here's an idea for his next project. Why don't he put on a robe and turban, then burn a few American flags and yell death to America in the middle of New York Time Square?

Bill O'Reilly needs to get tasered while being water-boarded. Your snark is ugly, and every comment I've read by you leads me to believe you're a fucking sociopath, hell-bent on shredding our constitution.

Say whatever snark you want about how she dressed or whatever other grade-school nonsense, but police brutality is not fucking funny. And these power-trippers should be in jail, being assraped by the very people they locked-up.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Absolutely, I feel like the Internet is already putting it through torture - or at least that's what all the reality TV programming is like to me.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Can I water board TV before you suffocate it? Please, please, please!

In reply to this comment by dag:
When TV is on its death bed, I'll be happy to put the pillow over its face.

What - too dark?

Can I water board TV before you suffocate it? Please, please, please!

In reply to this comment by dag:
When TV is on its death bed, I'll be happy to put the pillow over its face.

What - too dark?

torture is watching monkeys in the U.S. and elsewhere, chatter on about the symptomology of a much larger problem, while continuing to believe in such fantasies as free elections, human rights, or justice for any formidable criminals...all involved in this are team players in an international charade, and the issue of torture referenced here.....more diversion. Slapping, pushing, water-boarding??? Those detainees have a light-weight mind-fuck compared to the one perpetrated upon others, who with bleeding heart, post vids like this-Haven't you figured it out yet, meatbots????

Its because the political establishment using the cornerstone of fear over a possible terrorist attack has been allowed to set the dialog.

I agree with you, its about detainment without charge or due process, but the establishment has picked the tree from the forest, is water boarding torture? has formed the conversation in Washington for months now, in fact it was one the key points of Mukasey nomination for AG.

The American people are not presented the topic as a whole but piecemeal, then you have people like jeremy1967 asking if we would torture if we knew everything for 100%.

It's fucking stupid.

Torture was implemented to secure the US but all its doing is creating more Bin Ladens because now the world can point out exactly how morally corrupt and unethical the US is.

The world you kids speak from is insulated....the the fact that you have free time to peck away here lauding and heaping praises and niceties on humanity in a world hostile to humans "being....well, try this on for size-....the torture most Americans experience comes from within. The amount of actual physical "torture" perpetrated by the US government (excluding the blackest of ops, because, quite frankly, all you have is Hollowwoood-type scenarios to cull your world-view from, that and a few leaks and personal stories from ex-operatives) is minute compared to that of Asian countries, terrorist factions in countries that have had no reformation-type history, and dictatorships that NOBODY with a bleeding heart for some water-board victim(wrong place, wrong time, bad karma), seems to demand action against......back to Kim Dung Ill, "torturing" entire generations of N. Korea with indoctropropaganda....."The people of N. Korea, fucked from birth, fucked for life"

Torture for most folks in the US means truck-stop coffee and no fucking Wi-Fi, give me a goddamn shoulder to cry on Human Rights First!!!

How to combat such atrocious behavior???? Ethnically homogeneous communities should be left the fuck alone, Muslims and all their petty points of contention with their brethren need to have enemas forced upin them until they calm the fuck down, and the countries who use and abuse the most black gold, need to slow their long draws off the nipple to a creep, and perhaps become heroic in a new quest, to eradicate sick, dumb motherfuckers from the planet.....
Like Maaaackmoood Handjob, LIKE Kim Dung Ill......Ethnic tension should be punishable by water-boarding (pulling folks behind fast-boats on a sheet of plywood)

Me??? Moving inland, growing my own food, and hoarding ammunition and gold.....
AND, driving paid for shit, as little as possible. Fuck all if some president can do jack nor shit to change anything-we will probably end up embroiled once again in some clash in the Balkans before it's all said and done, hell, WW1 started with some "damn fool thing" there.......and Thank fucking God, Otto Von Bizzy was right when he mused.."
"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. "

oh, and what about the serbs?...all the gypsies, etc-they are getting fucked again as well. Not that the serbs are w/o their "atrocities"....but hey, thank Bill Clinton, and the Nato Goonsquads for playing on human weakness......Politics are for people who have their head shoved so far up their ass they can only see from that limited perspective......

>> maatc:
Same here. Dag, it is the link in your own profile that is supposed to link to "your" last comments. ("Browse" next to comments on member page)

The comment "browse" link on your own member profile has been fixed.

>> joedirt:
There may be a bug in the code for gold & diamond can submit any site. Also, I see a bug in the quote function if you look at the comment above this one.

Fixed and fixed. Smilies in quoted comments are simply vanished.

>> Thylan:
Re joedirt's "Best not to view vids you know and like" comment, i imagine that is only true if you can click to upvote, "without" having registered as a view.

This was the intended functionality (it's also how the votes-to-views system works) and has been corrected. Now when you vote, the unique member view counter increments.

>> oxdottir:
I feel like I've been dumped by my boyfriend.

I hope you feel better about the situation after reading around. We didn't at all intend to discard everyone's posts to clean out the queue. I take full blame for the oversight. Just as I realized it was going to happen and hurriedly tried to auto-requeue everyone's queued videos SiftBot did his automatic clean-up thing. I fixed the two videos you linked and if you have any others we can fix those as well. You haven't been dumped by us. We don't just wanna be friends. We do love you and are still in love with you.

>> Thylan:
Can there be an *unpromote that can only be called by the original submitter?

That's not a bad suggestion. However my initial concern is that people will be able to just promote for a few minutes, unpromote to get their power back, promote another post, etc. Perhaps if you unpromote you still have to wait 1 day from the initial promote to invoke it again... ?

>> videosiftbannedme:
only about 1/3 of the videos I've submitted have ever made it to 10 votes within 2 days.

I know what you mean. Though I think this will just be a benefit to those of we Sifters who are a bit more active. The nonchalant video submitter who doesn't really care will have their video disappear in two days, but the rest of us can requeue every 12 hours. Let's give it some time, but I think this new system will work great. Again, most calls for a decrease in queue lifetime all agreed two days would be best.

>> raven:
Instaban: I don't know how or why you guys came up with this but I don't like it... I think it will be too easily abused.

The InstaBan feature can only be exercised once every two days (and, no, there's no countdown timer because you shouldn't be looking forward to your next InstaBan). This is needed because there have been lots of situations lately where a spammer just posts spam comments all over the place. There's no way to invoke *ban because you have to do that in a comment (IOW, you can't comment an invocation about another comment). This power must be used with care and we will be informed via email any time someone uses it. If it is abused action will be taken against the abuser. (Think water boarding or bamboo shoots and fingernails.)

I guess some people are too afraid to believe their eyes when authority tells them otherwise.

There was a cover up of what happened on 9/11 from the very top.

For the buildings to collapse that fast, the lower floors would have to have the resistive factor of thin air.

Bush blocked the 9/11 investigation at every turn, and evidence was destroyed almost immediately.

Most of the "experts" who "debunk" conspiracy theories are basically professionals who are too afraid of losing their jobs or being attacked if they openly raise questions. They pull numbers out of their butts to justify the "official" explanation which was handed to them by the Bush administration.

The NYFD was placed under gag order.

If it's so obvious what happened, why was there such a great effort to hide everything?

They didn't have to destroy that steel so quickly.

(and there really were WMDs in Iraq, and Bush didn't steal Florida in 2000, and he didn't steal Ohio in 2004, and water-boarding isn't torture, and Dick Cheney is an honest man)

Your statement is rather self contradictory Doc_M, at first you state that someone undergoing water boarding would give the interrogator ANYTHING in order for it to stop, then you claim that it means the torture method is effective.

Five Reasons Torture Doesn't work by Joe Navarro, one of the F.B.I.’s top experts in questioning techniques:

1) Talk can't be confused with truth. A torture victim will say anything, true or false, to get the pain to stop.

2) The stress pain confuses the subject and he simply can't remember details well enough to produce good intelligence.

3) The torture subject may die or go into shock, in which case no information can be obtained from him.

4) The torture victim, if he tells the interrogator anything at all, is likely to give one piece of information, or very little information, whereas a cooperative source will talk and continue talking.

5) Torture strengthens the resolve of the detainee, citing Senator McCain, who after having his shoulder torn from is socket by interrogators in Vietnam, was more determined than ever to keep his silence.

Well, guess what, legal is legal when the sleeping masses say no....silence gives consent, and in our paradigm, the players are polished......and the apathy, served cold in every home, bar, and theater...Fuck the Dumbshits!
You folks who scream foul??? Your parents let it happen, and you cry the alternative, like Bolshevik blueprints.....this path is a mirror of the predictable recent past.

This beast has many, many heads-pointing fingers is as effective- considering the lack of information, as chasing a fly down with a Popsicle stick....

the "banning" of water boarding represents the ripping off of a band-aid, from a sucking chest wound.....

So fuck all the snide comments that will follow, about who did what and why to who......

Sorry, I didn't laugh one time. In fact, it was a bit heart-breaking as the kitty is put in there and he's looking around, a little curious...trusting that his humans wouldn't do anything mean to him. Then they break that trust.

It's just cruel. You know, water-boarding doesn't really hurt or kill you...so maybe we should do that to all you that liked this and just say "I laughed my ass off...look at him squirming like he's drowning! Oh come on, he's not REALLY being hurt....I LOL'ED!"

Fucking morons.

Water boarding for pets.

Water boarding is low pressure water too.