Nino Scalia, Your Hairshirt Is Showing, and Your Bishop Has a Message for You

In a speech delivered in Canada last year, Scalia repeatedly cited Fox's "24" and its fictional hero Jack Bauer as the authorities in support of his views about torture. Full Story »

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Stephanie Marie
3.6
by Stephanie Marie - Oct. 1, 2008

Nino Scalia questions, “Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution? How close does the threat have to be? And how severe can the infliction of pain be?” But to what end and at what cost? And once those innocently convicted are set free from Gitmo prison camps, for example, how is America to resolve such spawned, exacerbated global animosity against the very principles that its constitution espouses? Perhaps we need to think a little harder for less-costly alternatives, rather than writing our own death sentence to an already ill-fated future.

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