shuamort

Back in High School, I was president of the school's Amnesty International chapter. We went to the locally based Center for Victims of Torture to hear a man speak about his life as a political dissident in Argentina. He and his wife were tortured for speaking out against the governments abduction of people and putting them into prisons. He and his wife were then imprisoned and tortured in front of each other to have them name names of other dissidents. At one point that inserted a glass tube into the man's urethra and broke it with a hammer. His wife, blindfolded, burned with an iron poker, and starved, eventually died in front of him from the torture.

Torture has NEVER been proven to be an effective form of extracting information. Hearing this story and many others similar to that made it quite firm in my mind that no one should EVER be tortured.