Word: dershowitz
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More recently, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has stated while being interviewed on MSNBC that non-lethal torture would be acceptable to force information from a prisoner where there is “very good evidence” that the prisoner has information that would save innocent lives and refuses to give it. Although he stated that he was not advocating torture, Dershowitz suggested a clinical method of torture using sterilized hypodermic needles to be inserted under the recalcitrant’s fingernails, which he and the interviewer agreed would be excruciating...
Demonstrating his constitutional expertise, Dershowitz said that a judge’s authorization would be needed for a specified method of torture—a mere police official could not authorize torture. Dershowitz reached into his knowledge of our collective subconscious and explained that everybody wants torture to be used in such circumstances and would be glad that torture saved innocent lives. He stated that torture is used in such circumstances and that in a democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have...
...have expected the interviewer to at least quibble a bit, but he was satisfied with his scoop that a liberal Harvard professor of constitutional law would agree to torture. Indeed, they had quite an amiable chat, as though Dershowitz had uttered a seminal thought that had not been thought previously or put into practice by Caligula, Torquemada, Hitler, Stalin...
...Genocide? It was self-defense,” Dershowitz said, citing a passage in Exodus. He then alleged Esther’s sexy clothing constituted entrapment...
...legal system is only as good as it defends the worst,” Dershowitz said in the trial’s closing arguments...