...under the new policy, interrogation “must not be insulting” and that a “captured person’s attributes must not be ridiculed”. The policy adds that “the questioner must not touch the captured person” and “must not shout into the subject’s ear”. The Challenge Direct approach can only be carried out with prior permission and if the session is being recorded to prevent abuses. “There must be no intimidation of any kind,” state the rules. Judges also found other violations, including a soldier who used “insulting words throughout an interview” and “vulgar abuse” at a captive. They said the “most striking example” of a breach of the policy was when an interrogator “suddenly moved forward from a crouching position so that his face was right in front of the captured person’s. This was physically intimidating.” Lord West, the former First Sea Lord and national security adviser, said: “We have gone too far in letting people take us to court. “While these insurgents are chopping people’s heads off and raping women, the idea they can take us to court because somebody shouted at them is ridiculous.” All this comes from a report in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, outlining the emasculation of operational interrogations by a series of outrageous court rulings on suits brought by far left-wing public interest law firms on behalf of captured terrorists. These forays into utopian insanity are growing increasingly frequent as the administrative state exerts authority over those who actually perform the functions of security, production and innovation. Mind you, these functionaries rarely boast of actual experience in any of these sectors of society, but rather sport advanced degrees devoid of real-world experience. These are the people who bring us ideas like gender identity programs in elementary school, and similarly idiotic and counterproductive programs of purple penguinism. People like these are stealing our future by supplanting reality with utopian fantasy, which is fine for them personally, if they wish to live in a dream-concocted bubble, but deadly and convulsive if pursued as policy applicable to the rest of us under force of government. When a conservative makes an egregious mistake, they resign, or are forced to by their peers. We must hold these buffoons to the same standard to which we hold ourselves, or we will be trying to explain what a purple penguin is to the neanderthal who is preparing to behead us.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:15:03 +0000