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Tasers are torture, says the UN.  But waterboarding?  What's that?  "We 'ave not 'eard of zees waterboarding.  Should we be concerned?"  (You may know it by its older name, "Chinese water torture".)

When people elect a bunch of mendacious fools to lead them, you get governments.  When governments elect a bunch of mendacious fools to lead them, you get the UN.

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Re: Just a point of detail

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They may very well have--it is, after all a...uh...logical form of torture. But the specific name "Chinese water torture" refers to the more subtle version.

It's a point of detail that I've seen cause misconceptions about the seriousness of this situation.