"Motivational Waterboarding"

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/motivational-torture-by-digby-doing.html

Motivational Torture

by digby

Doing what it takes:

No one really disputes that Chad Hudgens was waterboarded outside a Provo office park last May 29, right before lunch, by his boss.

There is also general agreement that Hudgens volunteered for the “team-building exercise,” that he lay on his back with his head downhill, and that co-workers knelt on either side of him, pinning the young sales rep down while their supervisor poured water from a gallon jug over his nose and mouth.

And it’s widely acknowledged that the supervisor, Joshua Christopherson, then told the assembled sales team, whose numbers had been lagging: “You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales.”

What’s at issue in the lawsuit Hudgens filed against his former employers -- just as in the ongoing global debate over the CIA’s waterboarding of terrorism suspects -- is the question of intent.


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What has happened to us? Really, what the fuck has happened to the U.S.?

[niyad]

1. there are no words

[The Traveler]

3. Sure there are words

But most of the applicable terms that leap to mind are far too coarse for so genteel an environment as DU. :evilgrin:

(The insanity of Bush ... who would have thought it would be so infectious?)

[sutz12]

2. New meme, I guess....

"Waterboarding will continue until morale improves."

:shrug:

[kestrel91316]

4. Oh dear. Provo. These freaks wouldn't possibly be LDS?

You know, the church that swears up and down that it has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the FLDS infant waterboarders down in TX??

Why am I not surprised after I sit down and mull this over for a second?

[negativenihil]

5. ...

this has to be from the onion...

[ProgressiveFool]

6. Holy shit, those fucks need to have their membership in the Human Race revoked. /nt