“Experience indicates that the use of force is not necessary to gain the cooperation of sources for interrogation. Therefore, the use of force is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear.”
-- US Army Field Manual 34-52
It also happens to be against the law.
But what do we expect, what with the police tasering 72-year old grandmothers, and children?
Land of Greed.
Home of the Depraved.
America the Brutal.
What was that dream we once had?
Seemed like it was a good one.
Maybe a great one.
I'm pretty sure that when I was a kid, I was proud of it, not because it had come true, but because we kept dreaming it and kept trying to make it come true.
I can't recall, anymore, what that feeling was like.
And I wonder if I'll ever feel it again.
I miss it.
sj
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I remember what that feeling was like.
I still feel it sometimes.
And then I remember why I shouldn't.
And I grieve for it again.
T
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