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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (34710)	10/21/2001 12:36:11 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

That is not going to be an easy course to navigate, especially when the law enforcement people have a series of successes. Can you imagine giving prisoners LSD, then while they are tripping giving them imagery of very disturbing stuff like computer simulations of the destruction of Mecca or erotica mixed with blasphemous images? This could get really ugly because once you start doing this to people who have never been found guilty of anything, where is the 'presumption of innocence'?

To: Lane3 who wrote (34710)	10/21/2001 1:32:24 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 82486

Just read the article on the four terror suspects being held. He said there was a difference in employing a "truth serum," such as sodium pentothal, "to try to get critical information when facing disaster, and beating a guy till he is senseless." FWIW, in the early to mid nineties when the diagnoses of early childhood sexual trauma and dissociative disorder were running rampant, it was no unusual for patients to volunteer to undergo sodium pentothal treatment in order to get at their repressed memories. I knew a number of women who went through this and found it helpful. Of course it would undoubtedly be used differently in this situation, were psychological pressure tactics would likely be employed in the process. I'm not commenting on it either way, just something else to chew.