A U.S. soldier has been accused of ‘waterboarding’ his four-year-old daughter because she couldn’t recite the alphabet. Joshua Tabor admitted to police that he used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry. As his daughter ‘squirmed’ to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face – upwards – three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.
Tabor, 27, admitted to investigators that his daughter was terrified of water and he had deliberately chosen the punishment. Tabor, a soldier at a base in Tacoma, Washington, flew into a rage after his daughter was unable to recite her ABC’s.
As his girlfriend looked on he grabbed the child and placed her on the kitchen counter before submerging her face upwards into a bowl of water. Police Sgt Rob Carlson said the punishment was carried out because the girl would not recite the alphabet. When police spoke to the girl they noticed she had bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat. When asked how she got the bruises, the girl replied: ‘Daddy did it.’
During a police interview Tabor admitted holding his daughter underwater. The child has been taken into care by social workers..
Torture has always been about abuse of power and not about getting at truth. This just highlights it in a way more people can somehow understand it’s abuse. Albeit, I have my doubts this generation of so called “Americans” really do understand their own history.
How things change from one generation to the next:: For instance lets compare Prez Dwight D. Eisenhower to draft dodging Bush’s Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
“From the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend — or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there with-out charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The Constitution doesn’t say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus.”
Alberto Gonzales
Attorney General
He should have done it 82 more times, everybody knows that nobody talks on the first water board.
Uncle Sam needs a few good men and this guy is not one of them.
If a license is required to drive, it should also be required to parent. Unfortunately it’s not, and so a great number of children suffer abuses from the people they depend upon.
During the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, I WARNED and WARNED AGAIN my conservative friends about the inevitable “blow back” from war.
War ALWAYS hurts even the winning country. Just think about the thousands of Vietnam vets who never fully recovered from that war. Think about all the refugees from that region that we had to take into America.
The conservative respnse? They called me a Saddam loving terrorist lover who hated troops and loved those gay Dixie Chicks but also loved WMDs and would love America to be nuked by bin Laden. (or some other equally dumpth variation on this.)
But, mark my words, the price we will pay for this insane Iraq war is not just he crippling debt.
Whats the problem? This is good way to instil discipline in today’s doritos dust farting, video game playing, Michelin man like kids.
# 26 Santa Maria, you got it right! What we got here is… failure to communicate!
What we need in our panzie wanzie country is more DISCIPLINE!
I guess we can ask, did the military let this “mental deficient” into their ranks or did they make this normal guy in this “mental deficient”. Even Ronald Reagan said that water boarding was torture, but I guess Cheney and his gay daughter are the brain trust on this lie that has been perpetuated onto the American people and signed off by the GOP.