ICRC. The ICRC reports of several activities that, it said, were
“tantamount to torture”: exposure to loud noise or music, prolonged extreme temperatures, or beatings.
It would probably be more realistic to look at this way: that,
if this is something you’re serious about being successful
at, it’s going to take some hard work and – above all – some persistence before you start seeing the kind of results that will satisfy
you on a personal level, get your career in songwriting moving
right along, and bring in some serious cash.
These memos attempted to give legal justification to the torture program and argued that, while the techniques used “may amount to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, they do not produce pain or suffering of the necessary intensity to meet the definition of torture.” Pain severe enough to be considered torture would be “equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death.” Additionally, in 2002 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began the process of greatly expanding the approved list of
interrogation techniques in the Army Field Manual.
While I am not advocating the use of these techniques,
I would caution outlawing them.
