Is the determination of whether or not someone is a terrorist sort of like witch dunking in the Middle ages?

You take the terrorist and put him on a large scale with a duck. If the duck and the terrorist weigh the same, the terrorist must be made of wood, and should be able to float..thus he is a witch and should be..wait a second.

Maybe we should just get out the comfy chair and pointy cushions...

A lot! I've long said that if they could they would bring back the burning times. It has long been touted that the Holocaust was the worst crime against humanity ever committed but people love to forget the fact that a much greater loss of like was during the burning times. Most were not even witches. If your neighbor got mad at you you were accused of witchcraft and then executed. A lot of the killing were to gain property and land cause whoever was accused of witchcraft and convicted, there property was forfeit and so there family, wife, husband,parents,children, were out of the street.

Waterboard again and he will confess to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The most reliable use for torture is to force confessions or statements. Information obtained through torture is notoriously unreliable. Anyone who wants to argue with that needs to look at how many confessed witches were put to death. If torture is a reliable way to get factual information then witchcraft must be real.

Yes I believe it is, witch dunking was done because people needed others to blame for their mistakes, so that the witch hunters could make a quick profit and to explain things that happened whicth they couldnt explain through science or common sense. The same thing happens today with terrorist's and the way they pick out and discriminate arabs and label them as terrorist is very similar to how they picked out woman and labeled them as withces.

Absolute NOT!

It's exactly like...Witch hunting"...in 2007!

This to be done, of course, by exactly the same type of mental retards as before!

God save us from fundies in government.

Sorry for the pun!

There are ways to tell if she is a witch

Do witches burn ...yes

What else burns ? Wood

Does wood float in water ? yes

What else floats in water ? A duck

Therefore is she is made of wood she would wiegh as much as a duck and thereore be a witch

See - it all makes sense now doesn't it

The term "terrorist" can and is used by all sides. It all depends on who's eyes you're looking through.

Pentagon says nineteen thousand from al-Qaida killed. No offense lil kim but if your neighbors from the north invaded and occupied our country to liberate us, what would Americans do? I work with an ex navy seal, we torture people, he tells me they always confess to whatever we ask. One of my best friends is a Vietnam combat vet, he tells me we torture people. I presume with enough persuasion I would confess to being Attila the Hun.

Don`t knock dunking witches, it worked.

Don`t see any witches around anymore do you?

Flawless logic, check and mate

Far worse. At least back they could claim ignorance or superstition. Today, they can only claim hate and fear.