Would The Torturers Go to Jail If They'd Been Smoking Joints?

[MannyGoldstein]

Poll question: Would The Torturers Go to Jail If They'd Been Smoking Joints?

It's pretty clear that brutal torture is not considered to be a prosecutable crime. But what if the inquisitors had been smoking joints while breaking joints? Would that rise to the level of prosecutable crime?

[lamp_shade]

1. Not if the POTUS had given them the go-ahead.

[MADem]

4. And the DOJ had written a "torturously" detailed treatise telling them why it was legal for them to

so do.

No wonder John "Let The Eagle Soar" Ashcroft got the hell out of there. He had more integrity than most people credited him with.

[ixion]

2. They do what they want, when they want, and we pay for it

with our money or our lives.

That is the game.

[Echo In Light]

3. Perhaps if more got high they'd realize joining the military isn't such a good move?

Maybe? Some of em?

[Hubert Flottz]

5. We could save money if we would let the pot smokers toke

up and then jump out the window, like the people who invented the "War On Drugs" claim they all do. Then we wouldn't need to hire more bad cops, bad judges and more insane lawyers like the ones Bush made bad judges out of.

[Bandit]

6. How do you know they weren't?

:shrug:

[Echo In Light]

7. True. Although, having known a gazillion potheads throughout my life...

...and being one myself, it's been my experience that potheads usually aren't very keen on militarism and/or violence in general.

[MikeE]

8. Isn't that shoplifting

Afterall, if they are smoking the product that they have kept illegal so they can sell it to fund these kinds of things, isn't that like an employee stealing from the store?

[L0oniX]

9. Chances are they could rape a co-worker while torturing and still not be prosecuted.