Re: Idaho Killer Holds Encryption Key to Laptop Mystery

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 10/20/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:19:29 CDT, Brian Loe said:
> > Its not a matter of how long you're going to live but how long its
> > going to take for you to die.
>
> You're missing the point - if the alleged terrorist knows you'll resort to
> torture, why should he expect you *not* to lie when you tell him that the
> torture will stop as soon as he spills the beans?  There's *zero* reason for
> him to expect better treatment if he cooperates.

You miss the point of life - the shortcoming of every human walking
the earth and the reason you'll give up your mom to die today rather
than be tortured for two more days. HOPE.

> Remember - if we're *in* this situation, he *already* hates you enough to have
> done something so evil that you're willing to torture him to get the details.
> And all you're accomplishing by torturing him is proving that he was *right*
> about us - making it *more* likely he can draw on that as a source of strength
> and last until 5:03PM Tuesday.
>
> After that, who cares?  He's already qualified himself for martyrdom.

Only if he dies with honor... Put a pig on the bar-b-q while you
torture him... for one kind of wannabe-martyr.
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