NON-COERCIVE "INTELLIGENCE INTERVIEWING"

 

The problem with Intelligence personnel trying to elicit information from a prisoner or a detainee, effectively using a non-coercive manner, is that the real unspoken purpose of "interviewing" is to demonstrate power and control. 

From the back rooms of Chicago precinct stations to the out houses in Alabama, bullies have taken delight in beating "confessions" out of hapless victims. 

For the bully boys there is far more satisfaction in a good beating than there is in gaining useful information. 
Their objective is not aimed at protecting the rights of citizens, or even "getting at the truth".  The goal is to prove dominance.  Just as we do on a larger scale in Iraq or Afghanistan in fighting what we call a "just war".  We all know the results of beating up either another individual or an entire nation.  The result is hatred.  We never gain long term cooperation.  We never "free the people".  We simply turn loose our bully boys to vent their anger and perversion.  Because war, whether conducted on one individual in a back room, or by thousands on a battle field, is nothing more than that.  Perversion.  Abnormal behavior.  License to vent our rage. 

We are not so stupid that we do not know how to gain people's confidence and cooperation.  We have knowledge in methods of "getting at the truth", if we really wanted to do that. 

We need to open our eyes and stand up and object to what we are allowing to go on in the name of "Justice". 

If we do not, we are no more than cowardly Terrorists. 

 

Curious Carl