Steve

“I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?"—Job xii. 3.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“SWIGERT provided a list of 12 SERE techniques for possible use by the CIA: (1) the attention grasp, (2) walling, (3) facial hold, (4) facial slap, (5) cramped confinement, (6) wall standing, (7) stress positions, (8) sleep deprivation, (9) waterboard, (10) use of diapers, (11) use of insects, and (12) mock burial.136”
― Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Complete Standard Reflowable Flexible Ebook Edition

“I can't bear that they,and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!It is really these opinions that make the best intentioned people reckless, and actually become immoral!”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“although minute quantities of chlorine are life-saving, if too much is inhaled in its gaseous form, it can cause death in under thirty minutes. Recently, the Syrian government has used chlorine directly against civilians as a chemical weapon. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has thus transformed a principal element of public health into a tool of both disease and terror.”
― Anonymous