Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Calling a Spade a Spade: Ventura on Torture

Doug tipped me to this blog entry and video about Jesse Ventura discussing torture. Sometimes it's useful to have a guy who is not distracted from unpleasant truths.
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  • 7 comments
xiphias

xiphias

May 19 2009, 19:37:24 UTC 12 years ago

When Lis first told me about that, I sorta nodded.

A couple minutes later, I turned to her.

"Wait," I said. "Jesse Ventura was a SEAL, wasn't he?"

"Yup."

"That means that he went through SERE, doesn't it?"

"Yup."

"So he's actually BEEN waterboarded, hasn't he?"

"Yup."

"You mean there's someone who's actually talking about this issue who actually knows what he's talking about?"
ysabetwordsmith

Yes, and...

ysabetwordsmith

May 19 2009, 20:05:24 UTC 12 years ago

... there is at least one more. Back toward the beginning of the ruckus, some guy waterboarded himself and then blogged about the experience in some detail, describing why it is torture.
yotogi

Re: Yes, and...

yotogi

May 19 2009, 21:42:19 UTC 12 years ago

There've been several. I have yet to see anyone go through that and not say it wasn't torture.
anthony_arndt

anthony_arndt

May 20 2009, 07:32:46 UTC 12 years ago

Strictly speaking, he was a Navy frogman, but not one of the SEALs. But they get waterboarded too.
wetdryvac

wetdryvac

May 20 2009, 01:28:48 UTC 12 years ago

*nods*

Got pointed at that just before you linked. Glad to see he's still making some good points.
wetdryvac

wetdryvac

May 20 2009, 01:53:58 UTC 12 years ago

Or, alternatively, someone found it here and pointed me to the destination, so you turn out to be the source.

*chuckles*

"It's from... oh! Neat!"

*sighs*

This is my day for source checking, it really is.
the_vulture

the_vulture

May 20 2009, 01:37:35 UTC 12 years ago

That was cool! Thanks for posting the link.