UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture

The use of Tasers "causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture," the UN's Committee Against Torture said. "In certain cases, they can even cause death, as has been shown by reliable studies and recent real-life events." Three men — all in their early 20s — died from after tasering in the United States this week, days after a Polish man died at Vancouver airport after being tasered by Canadian police. There have been 17 deaths in Canada following the use of Tasers since they were approved for use, and 275 deaths in the US. "According to Amnesty International, coroners have listed the Taser jolt as a contributing factor in more than 30 of those deaths."

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Claymore Mine

[Enderandrew]

The UN and the Geneva Convention however have no qualms with claymore mines, even homebrew ones made in the field, with any sharp substance you can put in them. Those aren't torture, but tasers are.

Re:Something is wrong here

[ChrisMaple]

Firestone was bought out by Bridgestone.

Re:gah.

[rts008]

I don't currently have mod points for you, but...CLAP!CLAP!APPLAUSE!APPLESAUCE!

Very well done sir!!! You have certainly made my day, and you have my profound thanks! (no sarcasm implied nor intended-really!)

All joking aside, it has been my experience that there can be a spring-steel backbone and a set of cannonballs behind that very proper, polite, and acceptable face that accompanies that stereotypical Brit you 'Monty Python'd' with your reply.

*offtopic-sort of*
I used to love to go tavern/pub diving with both the Brit's SAS and the Aussie SpecWar crowd wherever I was stationed-always entertaining, action-packed, and NEVER boring! Hell, if you couldn't find any 'game' locals to brawl with, you could always break into nationalities and have a 'good-natured', drunken, silly toughman contest...it was great fun, loved by all! Our own SEALs were also of the same 'game' mentality, but we did not run into them often, but the above applies to them the same. Most of the rest of the US military crowd takes itself too seriously to even come close to the same mindset. *sigh* Good Times, back when!