* the video is HERE.
* hitchens' article about the experience is HERE.
obviously, this is disturbing stuff, so consider yourself warned.
July 2, 2008
journalist christopher hitchens is waterboarded
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Henri Alleg, an 86-year-old journalist subjected to waterboarding by French troops during the war for Algerian independence, says no civilized country should allow it. :
"They didn’t want me to die at once, and I knew afterwards, a long time afterwards, that many of the people who went under that waterboarding, as you call it, after having had some moments of fainting, some of them would die, drowned, “asphyxier,” as we say in French. It’s completely—it’s impossible to breathe, so they die, as if they were drowned, and this kind of “accident,” as they call, was very frequent."
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/5/french_journalist_henri_alleg_describes_his
steve powers is doing this event at coney island about waterboarding. my friend will is working for him there and he said that ron kuby wrote the waiver you have to sign to participate
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/any_lawyers_want_to_get_waterb.html
sheeeit, i don't even let people use my boogie board without a waiver.
speechless here...
for tc: not sure how i feel about waterboarding as "art." i typically find that stunts like that reinforce the stereotype that social justice causes belong in the domain of some kind of avant-garde... which inevitably leads to stereotypes of "the looney left," etc.
in hitch's case, the incentive seems simpler-- he was skeptical of the argument against it, sought some empirical evidence, and changed his mind, accordingly. i worry that the prankishness of the powers project might override its political use-value?
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