Follow the narrative on this Huffington Post item, either I'm missing something, or there is an element of dishonesty at play here.
A fellow name of Kaj Larsen is touting an upcoming video item during which he was water boarded. But look at the time frame. Given his stated narrative, it seems he was ultimately spurred on by something he witnessed overseas in March 2007, right? So how come this waterboarding video first appeared in September of 2006? That would appear to make the March Cambodia trip irrelevant, unless he sailed there with John Kerry and they both wore magic hats? Either that, or water boarding is something of a hobby for him, in which case, I guess it isn't all that bad. Either way, it hardly qualifies as billed - "Current TV."
By April of 2006 the debate about coercive interrogation and its most controversial technique, water-boarding ... But, like many Americans, the pre-occupations of everyday life, for me the pressure of mid-terms and exams, pushed the controversy to the back of my mind.
Then, in mid March I traveled to Cambodia for Spring Break. While there I visited the Tuol Sleng (also known as S-21) prison in Phnom Penh. The Tuol Sleng prison had been converted to a museum and memorial for the victims of the Cambodian Genocide under the Pol Pot regime. As I walked through the museum and saw the photographs of the victims of the genocide, I was shocked to see a picture of the Khmer Rouge Water-boarding a Cambodian villager. At that moment I saw a throughline between the debate we were having domestically and the picture I was standing in front of. I was spurred into action, and upon my return to the United States, I decided to have myself water-boarded, this time on national TV, as a public service, so that this controversial technique could be judged in the court of public opinion.
The real waterboarding isn't anything too egregious! Why, Mukasey mentioned that he does it himself all the time!
http://www.humblenarrator.com/2007/10/31/mukasey-supports-waterboarding-as-100-adrenaline/
Posted by: Michael Parkatti | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 07:28 PM