Sometimes I think, hey, you know, conservatives aren't that bad. Really we all want the same thing they just have a different way to achieve them. Then I see something like this:
[Scalia] said it was "extraordinary" to assume that the ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" - the US Constitution's Eighth Amendment - also applied to "so-called" torture.
"To begin with the constitution... is referring to punishment for crime. And, for example, incarcerating someone indefinitely would certainly be cruel and unusual punishment for a crime."
Yeah, you see that "so called torture" isn't "cruel and unusual" because it isn't "punishment." So it's terrible terrible to punish someone by waterboarding them, that is, if you know they did something wrong, they've had due process, and been convicted, etc, no waterboarding. If, on the otherhand, you just THINK that they did something wrong, or maybe know people who might due something wrong in the future, then it's OK to waterboard them. Because it's a ban against cruel and unusual PUNISHMENT, not INTERROGATION! This guy is on the Supreme Court.
AAaaagggghhhhh!
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