Scalia's twisted mind

Scalia: Does Torture Violate ‘Cruel And Unusual Punishment’ Provision? ‘No.’

Think Progress
Monday, April 28, 2008

Last night, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia granted his first broad-based television interview, to Lesley Stahl on CBS’s 60 Minutes. There he explained that the torture of detainees does not violate the 8th Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” because, according to Scalia, torture is not used as punishment:

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This guy is a supreme court justice? Another sign of the moral bankruptcy of the American elite. Scalia's statement that we torture "to get information" is a lie.
It is well known, except to the worshipers of the cult of intelligence, that torture
does not elicit reliable, truthful, accurate information. The truth is that torture
is a form of terrorism that the morally corrupt elite want permitted to themselves and their all powerful corporatist state. Scalia, like many apologists for torture
use the extreme unusual case example of Las Angeles or some other city being under
threat and the "terrorist" being questioned is in possession of the specific and
crucial information needed to avert the tragedy, yet in practice torture is not
reserved for such unusual and extreme cases. In fact in practice once torture is allowed for the imaginary extreme case, torture becomes routine, ordinary, and usual in actual practice. The allowing of torture in imaginary extreme cases is not a slippery slope - it is a step off the precipice into the pit of hell.

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