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echo: pol_inc
to: Dan Ceppa
from: Earl Croasmun
date: 2009-06-05 19:30:08
subject: RE: Re-reexamining Torture ...

~>  -> Yeah, it's easy:  According to you, Scalia and Cheney, you can
legally beat
~>  -> the living shit out of anyone if you call it
"interrogation".  
 
~>  EC> That is an obvious lie, since I said exactly the opposite.  There are
~>  EC> laws on police brutality.  There are also laws on torture.  Scalia's
~>  EC> point (and you would have known this if you had bothered to READ his
~>  EC> words that were posted here) is that such behavior is covered by
~>  EC> criminal laws but not by the Eighth Amendment.  From that same blog I
~>  EC> directed you to yesterday:
 
~> The point is that it is against the law.  A jurist such as a SC judge
should 
~> be aware of that.  

This is getting sad.  Scalia said "we have a law against torture."  You
called him an idiot.  And you say that it is illegal.  Just for the sake of
consistency, shouldn't you now call yourself an idiot?


 
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