{"id":4017,"date":"2008-01-03T02:55:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T10:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/03\/description-of-waterboarding\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T02:55:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T10:15:28","slug":"description-of-waterboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4017","title":{"rendered":"First-Person Account of Self-Waterboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there any question that waterboarding is torture? Someone at the “Straight Dope” forums <\/a>decided to investigate this question by waterboarding himself:<\/p>\n

I am incredibly fit and training for a 100 mile endurance run. The main thing about such an event is ability to tolerate pain. I am good at this. I am trained.<\/p>\n

I also have experience with free-diving from my college days. I once held my breath for 4 minutes and two seconds. Once, while training as a lifeguard I swam laps without breathing until I passed out, so that I could know my limits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First he tried out “simple” waterboarding, and then tried it with a wet rag preventing him frmo breating through his mouth:<\/p>\n

I can see where this would get very unpleasant if you lost control, but still, not terrible, not torture, per se in my book. It wasn’t as bad as my vasectomy or last root canal…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then he tried it the way the pros do it, with saran wrap:<\/p>\n

Next up is saran wrap. The idea is that you wrap saran wrap around the mouth in several layers, and poke a hole in the mouth area, and then waterboard away. I didn’t reall see how this was an improvement on the rag technique, and so far I would categorize waterboarding as simply unpleasant rather than torture, but I’ve come this far so I might as well go on.<\/p>\n

Now, those of you who know me will know that I am both enamored of my own toughness and prone to hyperbole. The former, I feel that I am justifiably proud of. The latter may be a truth in many cases, but this is the simple fact:<\/p>\n

It took me ten minutes to recover my senses once I tried this. I was shuddering in a corner, convinced I narrowly escaped killing myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But remember, Republican attorney generals just can’t tell if it’s torture or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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