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Demonstrations of U.S. Torture Tactics

posted by jakethorn on May 8, 2007 - 2:06am

Tags:

• Alberto Gonzales
• Amnesty International
• Bush
• Guantanamo Prison
• torture

Amnesty International UCSB chapter is going to be demonstrating waterboarding and stress positions as used by U.S. military personnel at places like Guantanamo Prison. We won't be doing the things for the length of time and with the same intensity, though because we don't want anyone to get hurt, obviously. We'll only do enough to show how it works and why it qualifies as torture. I tried waterboarding tonight for about 5 seconds ---it sucks--- I can't imagine doing it for 2 or 3 minutes.