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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (37684)	7/8/2005 3:01:09 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Are you arguing that torture doesn't work? OK, I'm going to share this very personal item with you... If you began snipping off the tips of my fingers one by one, very slowly, I would tell you my ATM card PIN number after only one finger. Please don't share this with anybody -- wouldn't want to give them any ideas. -g-

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (37684)	7/8/2005 7:00:04 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

"Why would someone who is not willing to give you honest information be more willing to do so because you beat him up?" Why do you keep talking about beating people up? I may be wrong, but I thought the experts in such things - at least in the US - concluded a long time ago that beatings were not effective in getting useful information and that psychological methods worked better. Of course, some on the whiny left consider all forms of coercion, whether physical or purely psychological, to be torture on par with the worst of Hitler, Stalin and Saddam Hussein.