Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Dave Drum:

 DC> -> On 10 Jun 09  02:01:00, Dave Drum got back to Dan Ceppa 
 DC> -> Re: Lost messages

 DC>> Due to a power outage, it appears I'm missing a couple of days pkts.

 DD>> Reset your pointers (works on all BBSes I have been/am on).

 DC> That doesn't work with my set up.  

 DD>> Naaaah, you'd just try to defend your indefensible positions on
 DD>> Justice Scalia 

 DC> Scalia stated that torture is not unconstitutional, plain and simple.  

He did not say that it was not unethical, not immoral and not illegal.  In
point of fact I think he did say that torture was illegal.

The Constitution specifies "cruel and unusual *punishment*"
(emphasis mine),
Scalia pointed out that (legally) torture is not punishment and because it is
not (legally) *punishment* it is not unConstitutional.  Legal hairsplitting, perhaps,
but that's what lawyers *do*.

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