Freepery coworker thought water-boarding was something like wind-surfing

[nam78_two]

I am series...

He was under the impression that its an "aggessive interrogation technique" where you make people physically tired by either simulating wind-surfing or possibly by actually wind-surfing....He even said there are nice beaches near Gitmo.


:yoiks:

[Nicole]

1. What an idiot

I didn't know what it was when I first heard it but I was sure it wasn't a day at the beach.

[nam78_two]

2. Yeah he is not the brightest tool in the shed ;-)/nt

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. Either that, or wakeboarding. n/m

[BlueJazz]

4. Oh Please tell me nobody is THAT stupid. On the other hand..

...I've heard that "Coercive Surf-Boarding" is a real Bitch...

[nam78_two]

9. He is a graduate student in Physics-go figure

Very bright when it comes to science-but proud of the fact that he doesn't follow the news or politics. He is conservative because his family is very conservative.

He is a fundie who is constantly trying to reconcile his Christian beliefs with science.

He wrote an algorithm that "proves God exists"...whatever that means :shrug:-I feel bad for him mostly.


He is a proof of how upbringing can skew even fairly intelligent people -this kid has great grades and he is doing a PhD in Physics at a highly ranked U. But he won't question any of the beliefs he was raised with :eyes:...
How does that happen?

[BlueJazz]

20. Wow..I've got a Physics Degree myself ...Just a Masters....but ....

..I swear..I don't know Anybody that was in my class that was a Conservative Christian.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that) :)

[peekaloo]

5. funny yet sad.

I would have pointed out that John Kerry approves of this tactic. :sarcasm:

Let's go surfin' now, everybody's learning how, come on water boardin' with me.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. Send him the links from this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2270546

[nam78_two]

12. He wouldn't look at a pinko site like DU ;-)

But I'll try...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. Don't send the DU links, send the links from inside. And if he wouldn't

read a pinko site like DU, why would he even have a conversation with you?

[nam78_two]

14. I think its because I am one of the few females

In a department full of men ;) to be honest.

He hates my politics and keeps trying to have discussions about politics & "convert" me. And the thing is I hate discussing this stuff with people who are *completely* ignorant and just have opinions.
But, I will send him the links-I did actually explain what water-boarding was briefly.

But met with the usual "they did much worse to our soldiers" blah blah...No need for specifics of course when you are just making shit up :eyes:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

7. Oh please tell me they can't be that stupid

O.K. that's it, we have to have laws that require a certain intelligence level for one to be qualified to vote. The well being and future of our country depends on it. That is if we ever get ourselves out of the hole these people have buried us in.

[nam78_two]

10. I wish I was making this up! Its scary /nt

[Freedom_from_Chains]

17. I know that is just sad. No wonder we are getting our clocks

cleaned in the global labor market.

[evlbstrd]

8. He's also wrong about the GTMO beaches.

I was stationed there, and the surf sucks and the sharks and barracuda aren't much fun. The only halfway decent beach is reserved for the officers.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. I was stationed there too. I actually thought most of the beaches were

nice (Cable, Pebble, Windmill etc.) but none of them are places that prisoners there could ever go to.

No beaches were off limits to enlisted when I was there. Back when we had a real president.

(disclosure: I was there before it ever became a prison gulag)

[evlbstrd]

15. I was there in the seventies.

Sure, an enlisted person might get invited, but, generally, there was definitely an Officers' Country.
And you could hang out at the beaches and feed peanut butter to the iguanas, but the beaches were pebble with little sand, and windsurfing was either unknown at the time or very new and obscure. I saw people try to surf, and it was kinda pathetic.

GTMO even has fast food joints, now. I enjoyed the Q-hut restaurants the Cuban and Jamaican nationals who worked on the base had going in their housing areas. And night fishing for red snapper.

[emdee]

16. This is a great example of what frustrates me the most....

they don't care enough to find out about an issue themselves and just make up a scenario that fits the "my president would never do anything that those unChristian Dems would do" mindframe. Why?!?!

Security is not the only issue - I see it with all of the issues. "Partial-birth abortion" is another one. It is NOTHING at all like what they firmly believe and yet they've never, obviously, even tried to find out a MEDICAL opinion on it.

emdee

[Richard Steele]

18. You should have offered to take him waterboarding some weekend.

[blogslut]

19. I believe it

Blogslut Jr. told me just yesterday that a fellow college student said this:

"You're one of those diagnostics, aren't you?"

No lie.

[sakabatou]

22. Diagnostic? WTF is he on?

[sakabatou]

21. :: head desk ::

I'd love to give him a proper example... I mean, it's legal now, isn't it?

:sarcasm:

[maine_raptor]

23. Maybe what's needed to wake some folks up is a little "Show and Tell".

Let's get CNN, MSNBC, et. al., to put on a little on-air video of what "Waterboarding" is; bring in a big tank, fill it, get a board set up and go at'er.

Maybe have one of the many blond bimbo newsreaders and vapid personality that inhabit those airwaves put on a swimsuit (tasteful one piece, please) and volunteer to be interrogated.

I'd love to hear what Rita Crosby would have to say after a couple of demos. Bet she'd spill the beans on John Gibson right quick.