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New Poll Shows US Citizens in Every Demographic Support Torture


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2014 Dec 16, 2:19pm   8,301 views  24 comments

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New Poll Shows US Citizens in Every Demographic Support Torture (Republicans, Democrats, White, Black, Young, Old)
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-poll-shows-us-citizens-in-every.html
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1   Waitup   2014 Dec 16, 3:28pm  

This is just sad

2   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2014 Dec 16, 10:42pm  

Waitup says

This is just sad

Hey what do you want from me?
It's a "Iye-iye-iye-iye-iye-iye-iye" for an "Iye-iye-iye-iye-iye-iye-iye"
world.

3   humanity   2014 Dec 16, 11:48pm  

Without reading Mish's post or his referenced study, let me guess. The survey question goes something like this:

"If you knew that torture might be the only way that you could prevent a weapon of mass destruction being used in major city, would you support the use of torture ?"

4   anonymous   2014 Dec 16, 11:58pm  

The question was, If the only way that we could continue the pace of police slaughtering the citizenry, while simultaneously eating such a toxic diet, so that we can enrich completely unnecessary health insurance corporations, would you support someone you only marginally cared about, being tortured.

The answer was a resounding, HELL YEA

5   Strategist   2014 Dec 17, 12:43am  

The Professor says

Mish says

New Poll Shows US Citizens in Every Demographic Support Torture

The question was: If you knew your child could be saved if we tortured a terrorist would you approve?

Surprisingly, many did!

And the rest lied.

6   Y   2014 Dec 17, 12:48am  

what's microsoft mail got to do with it??

bgamall4 says

If Americans would quit being blinded by our evil MSM, they would understand that Cheney was a killer of Americans and that the government should hang him in front of everyone.

7   Dan8267   2014 Dec 17, 1:26am  

Strategist says

The Professor says

Mish says

New Poll Shows US Citizens in Every Demographic Support Torture

The question was: If you knew your child could be saved if we tortured a terrorist would you approve?

Surprisingly, many did!

And the rest lied.

And if the question is, "If you knew your child could be saved if we tortured Strategist's children, would you approve?", then the answer would be a resounding yes as well.

That's why we don't base decisions on an individual's personal interest. Think more than one more ahead.

8   Strategist   2014 Dec 17, 1:39am  

Dan8267 says

And the rest lied.

And if the question is, "If you knew your child could be saved if we tortured Strategist's children, would you approve?", then the answer would be a resounding yes as well.

That's why we don't base decisions on an individual's personal interest. Think more than one more ahead.

If my children were terrorists, then they would deserve to be tortured if innocent lives could be saved. Of course, I would be biased at that point and spew the same nonsense as you, by claiming torture never works.
Now it's my turn. Would you be OK with torturing, if it could save your life, and the lives of your loved ones?

9   Peter P   2014 Dec 17, 1:41am  

What is torture anyway?

Withholding candies? Tickling? Waterboarding? Or some creative medieval craft?

10   Dan8267   2014 Dec 17, 2:08am  

Strategist says

If my children were terrorists, then they would deserve to be tortured if innocent lives could be saved.

Ah, but you missed the point. Your children would get tortured even if they were completely innocent. That is the very real price of accepting torture.

Strategist says

Now it's my turn. Would you be OK with torturing, if it could save your life, and the lives of your loved ones?

I would be perfectly OK with everyone else in the world dying to save my family, and just about all human beings would take a similar position. That is why you don't let the selfish interests of any human being take precedent over the good of the many.

I would rape your children to death to save the life of my niece -- and you would do the same. That doesn't mean it should be legal or tolerated by society. Most animals would kill you painfully to protect their own offspring; that doesn't make it moral or a good basis for government.

If we followed the philosophy of "anyone can do whatever they perceive is in the best interest of their family" then we'd have constant warfare within every town of our nation as each family tried to murder every other family before that family got a chance to murder them. That's a really stupid way to run a society.

11   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2014 Dec 17, 2:35am  

I think this means that there's a torture bubble in this country.

12   Ceffer   2014 Dec 17, 3:02am  

"The Constitution is not a death pact."

13   Strategist   2014 Dec 17, 3:13am  

Call it Crazy says

Peter P says

What is torture anyway?

Reading Dan's delusional posts on Patnet!

Even I would not put terrorists through the torturous pain of reading Dan's posts. I would just shoot them to relieve them of an excruciating pain. I have a big heart, you know.

14   Strategist   2014 Dec 17, 3:15am  

Call it Crazy says

Peter P says

What is torture anyway?

Reading Dan's delusional posts on Patnet!

Hey, I have an idea. What if we make Dan read his own posts? He will wish hell existed.

15   Dan8267   2014 Dec 17, 3:48am  

Call it Crazy says

Peter P says

What is torture anyway?

Reading Dan's delusional posts on Patnet!

Strategist says

Call it Crazy says

Peter P says

What is torture anyway?

Reading Dan's delusional posts on Patnet!

Even I would not put terrorists through the torturous pain of reading Dan's posts. I would just shoot them to relieve them of an excruciating pain. I have a big heart, you know.

Way to recycle my jokes. I guess it's true what they say: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I image hell as an eternity of reading Strategist's posts.

16   humanity   2014 Dec 17, 6:14am  

Dan8267 says

I would be perfectly OK with everyone else in the world dying to save my family, and just about all human beings would take a similar position.

I don't really think most humans would do that. They certainly wouldn't be perfectly okay with it.

Dan8267 says

I would rape your children to death to save the life of my niece -- and you would do the same.

Really ?

17   Strategist   2014 Dec 17, 6:59am  

Dan8267 says

Even I would not put terrorists through the torturous pain of reading Dan's posts. I would just shoot them to relieve them of an excruciating pain. I have a big heart, you know.

Way to recycle my jokes. I guess it's true what they say: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Honey, I wasn't joking.

18   Strategist   2014 Dec 17, 7:00am  

bgamall4 says

Strategist says

If my children were terrorists,

Zionism is terrorism. Sandy Hook Hoax was Zionist linked. So was 9/11, so was Lavon Affair, so was USS Liberty, so was Patrick Clawson's speech, so was Operation Northwoods. Lemnitzer was a Zionist who planned Northwoods. The Zionists took a peaceful people and moved them out of Israel, and the governments sent them back, so they languish in a prison of Gaza for 40 years. And Israel is a war criminal of occupier by building settlements.

Damn Zionists, still haven't finished the job.

19   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Dec 17, 7:26am  

Strategist says

If my children were terrorists, then they would deserve to be tortured if innocent lives could be saved.

- Suppose the English called American rebel colonists "terrorists" and tortured them, would you agree?
- Suppose the US army in Iraq called the Iraqi Sunny rebels "terrorists" and tortured them, would you agree?

You can choose to wrestle with pigs or try to stay clean. In the end it doesn't change much, except in 1 case you're very dirty.

20   bob2356   2014 Dec 17, 7:28am  

bgamall4 says

Strategist says

Damn Zionists, still haven't finished the job.

As we debated before, God will finish the job and finish the Zionists on the LAST DAY. And that day is approaching sooner than most believe.

Does this mean I shouldn't buy green bananas?

21   NDrLoR   2014 Dec 17, 7:33am  

Maybe most would rather stay alive than be politically correct.

22   HEY YOU   2014 Dec 19, 1:16am  

All's fair in love & war? So many would be OK with an adversary using the same techniques on Mericans? Because it's all good.

23   HydroCabron   2014 Dec 19, 2:18am  

I always figured part of the mass appeal of the OJ trial was married men.

Who doesn't fantasize about experiencing the greatest pleasure a man can know?

24   bob2356   2014 Dec 19, 2:39am  

HydroCabron says

I always figured part of the mass appeal of the OJ trial was married men.

Who doesn't fantasize about experiencing the greatest pleasure a man can know?

Boffing nicole brown?

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