Freedom Tickling

for those of you who don't know what Freedom Tickling is, it was the name Jon Stewart gave to torture so that it wasn't torture.

Anyway on the NPR today, they were talking to the ACLU about their Freedom of Information Act probing into the memos and orders to what was allowed at the prisons for terror suspects. Showing that in fact in documented memos and cases that the US did in fact tell it's soldiers to do what they said they didn't tell them to do in the leaked prison photos.

ACLU - whether or not it's torture is academic, but no matter which way it goes the fact remains that it is deemed cruel and inhumane treatment, and illegal by both US and international law.

So their reasoning was it's not torture, because in order to train troops in the special forces; they are subjugated to the same treatment.

The way I break that down is:

In order to train our troops to resist torture
We subjugate them to the acts that might happen to them if they're captured
In essence what we would call torture
However it is not torture, because we are doing it to them instead the enemy.

That's right, it's not torture, because it will be torture, and to prepare you for being tortured, we are going to show and do to you torture techniques, but just remember, because it's friendly it's not torture, but rather freedom tickling......