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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (8983)	1/14/2007 9:43:31 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

While torture was technically unlawful in England, he used various methods of browbeating to extract confessions from some of his victims. He used sleep deprivation as a sort of bloodless torture. He also used a "swimming" test to see if the accused would float or sink in water, the theory being that witches had renounced their baptism, so that all water would supernaturally reject them. Sounds like he must have got his training at the Rumsfeld-Cheney School of Pseudo-Torture.