Torture for bomb criminals

Introduction

Torture is considered the act of deliberately causing serious hurts either psychologically or physically to a person with the aim of getting the person to talk or respond accordingly to the questions asked during an interrogation. Torture was considered to be the method of dealing with individuals who caused dangers to the United States especially after the Second World War. Torture is a method that continues to be used in both the democratic states and nations and the dictatorship states and nations. This method is considered by many to be an evil method but which causes the state of a nation to be secure and more peaceful (Wahl, 2017). For example, in the United States the method was considered to be very unethical and undemocratic which was used highly by the CIA but the Obama administration ruled it out of the options of interrogations[1]. This was a move that was highly appreciated by the human rights groups since some methods were very ruthless and which no human being should be subjected. However, during the Trump tenure, the program has been reinstated and is used to make sure that the offenders mostly the bombers talk (Zgonec-Rožej & Foakes, 2013). Saving lives is very important and when it comes to the use of torture, everyone agrees that losing one life to save many can be an important action.

Torture is a brutal method that can cause pain and suffering to the subjects but it is an important method which can reduce the activities of terrorism in the United States[2]. Extracting information from people who are suspected to be criminals with the capability and wiling of killing other people is very vital and in such cases, torture can be used. Many gang members and especially terrorist gangs are well trained to not disclose any information at all making it hard to question the person using the book method (Wahl, 2017). At such a time where there is a ticking time bomb, perpetrators should be tortured to ensure that the pain they feel makes them talk and reveal where the bomb has been set to explode. The perpetrators should be subjected to an immense pain that will ensure that they are made to be responsible for their action. It is during this torture that the individual or criminal involved has the chance to either save or kill lives and so torture should be the ultimate option. The interrogation process can be speeded up by use of torture to make sure that the time left is used to the best level[3]. In most cases such as the one in our case, the bomb is just less than 2 hours to exploding and the millions of lives at stake make it even harder for the authority to wait any longer.

 Today, there is a numerous number of terrorist groups which show no mercy when they attack where they live millions of people at the risk of death and others without their limbs while others are left homeless. With this ideology, it is impossible and not even making sense to talk about human rights or civil rights (Bloom, 2017). Any perpetrator arrested being related to the killings should be tortured in the best way possible to ensure that what he knows is also known by the security group. For example, the city of Seattle has more than a million people who are at the risk of being killed with a bomb and the only way to get the actual location of the device is through the individual said to be the one holding the trigger (Zgonec-Rožej & Foakes, 2013)[4]. It is impossible to relocate everybody from the city in less than 2 hours and this means that everything possible has to be done to ensure that the person gives the actual location of the life-threatening device.

A Certain technique such as the one famously known to be used by the CIA which is waterboarding does not cause any physical harm to the prisoner but ensures that they are intimidated to talk. This is a method that should be used in cases where the prisoner shows some level of pain and wants to give out information. In case no moves made by the prisoner to talk, then it is the high time to use other methods such as chopping off the figure nails or using electricity to instill pain in the prisoner. Many lives have been saved before through the use of torture to make the prisoners respond and this makes it a good method to deter an attack.

When it comes to the terrorist's groups, they all use various brutal methods to make their prisoner talk and some of these methods are very harsh that no police agency would use on a prisoner of a bomb. These are the same kind of people that slaughter and crush the heads of innocent people in the name of revenge to either a nation or a government (Wahl, 2017). Such methods used by terrorists are worse than being in prison without light or a door[5]. With this idea in mind, it makes it even impossible not to torture any criminal found guilty of something like bombing to prevent a similar attack. The methods used to torture the prisoners are better since they do not cause death or close to physical disability of the person. It is due to such a reason that torture should be used to make sure that the expected attack does not happen.

Any kind of damage that is done to a prisoner by the security agencies is a justified kind of harm since the main goal is to save the lives of other people. Punishing the prisoners of bombing by giving them torture is a qualified move and those who use the method are supposed to do it with caution not to kill the prisoners before they give out the information. However, prisoners and especially those who are suicide bombers in most cases will prefer dying with the information then saving lives. In such cases, there could be fatalities since the bomb is only less than 2 hours and nothing seems to be working to make them give information (Bloom, 2017). People suspected to be criminals can also not be criminals making it a torture on innocent lives[6]. Individuals who are suspected to be criminals can be given the torture while they are just innocent people and this makes it even harder to use torture in interrogations. Such cases are highly investigated and the true identity of the person is known even before the tortures begins and if the names and the information were given coincide with the suspected individual, then there is no chance to waste other than starting the torture. Psychologically, people can experience some consequences due to the torture did on them but if it is for the benefit of the society, then it is not a harmful thing.

Conclusion

The ticking bomb requires no mercy shown on the prisoners and therefore it requires strategy and techniques to break the prisoner and give out the locations. In the war against terrorism, one thing that should never be undermined is information[7]. At this point, the only concern is making sure that every tip is used which could finally lead to the revelation of the bomb. In many cases, individuals who are inclined to term torture as a bad method of punishment should be questioned based on the many attacks which countries have suffered under terrorism. For example, if anyone got a chance to get the information regarding the attack on the world trade centers, then it would have helped prevent the loss and lives which were lost under the attack (Wahl, 2017). If torturing was the method to be used to ensure that the gang members talked, then it is most definitely the method to be used to ensure that another attack does not happen again. Torture should be used to make the prisoner talk as if that is the only possible way to talk, then it should be used. Pain and suffering of one person can be used to make sure that the lives of many others are saved. Sometimes it is a brutal way which seems inhuman but it surely assists in making sure that they provide with the necessary information required to prevent further attacks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Bloom, P. (2017). Against empathy: The case for rational compassion. Random House.

Conrad, C. R., Haglund, J., & Moore, W. H. (2013). Disaggregating torture allegations: Introducing the ill-treatment and torture (ITT) country-year data. International Studies Perspectives, 14(2), 199-220.

O'Donohue, W., Snipes, C., Dalto, G., Soto, C., Maragakis, A., & Im, S. (2014). The ethics of enhanced interrogations and torture: A reappraisal of the argument. Ethics & Behavior, 24(2), 109-125.

Wahl, R. (2017). Just violence: Torture and human rights in the eyes of the police. Stanford University Press.

Zgonec-Rožej, M., & Foakes, J. (2013). International Criminals: Extradite or Prosecute?. Chatham House.

       

 

[1]  Torture ruled out since it was a method that was considered to be inhuman and at times mistaken identity made it harsh for those who had not committed the crime presumed to commit.

[2] United states is targeted by most terrorist since they view it as a source of their problems or their solution to be in the position they are so making a revenge seems the best option for them.

[3] Torture is harsh but the level of danger and damage the terrorist influence when committing such crimes is very high and so it is not a harsh way of dealing with terrorism.

[4] Evacuating is an impossible method so dealing with the problem of terrorism through torture is a valid method.

[5] Methods used to make sure that the prisoners are subjected to horror which will act as a punishment for them.

[6] At times, torture is a bad move since some of the people tortured can be innocent but due to the state of emergency, they are not spared.

[7] Information should always be used with the highest level of intelligence to ensure that it is used correctly.