Playboy Journo Bets He Can Endure 15 Seconds Of Waterboarding (VIDEO)

Playboy.com journalist Mike Guy underwent waterboarding by a trained member of the U.S. military in the site's new Lab Rat feature.

Guy bet that he could endure 15 seconds of the interrogation technique used by the Bush administration on al Qaeda chief Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.

Watch the results:

Comments

[CheshireCat 2]

I am trying this tomorrow. I want to know for sure what it feels like.

[notwaff]

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ARE DISNEY THEME PARKS "TORTURE"
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People pay money to get the adrenaline rush of being literally scared to death.
Let's face it, theme parks, such as Disney, are full of experiences meant to scare you. So are Disney theme parks "torture"?

[mattwg440]

if they take you there against your will, in an intimidating manner, naked, hooded, in the middle of the night after being denied sleep for 2 days, strap you into something you have never seen, AGAINST YOUR WILL ( pretty much the part where the argument you posited reeks of stupid) and send you on a terrifying ride. Disclaimer: i hate roller coaters, but that kinda puts me in the right place to call it a terrifying ride, you might enjoy it, but if someone forced me to ride one, It would scare the crap out of me.

Not that the argument needs even that much dissemination

[scottmk]

"Playboy.com journalist Mike Guy underwent waterboarding by a trained member of the U.S. military..."

The question is: WHY is a member of the U.S. military trained in this "technique?" Who trained him? Who authorized it? Who is responsible for this, and who will hold them accountable?

It looks like the People will have to demand that Obama bring these international criminals to justice. I'm not optimistic.

[ChicagoTed]

No terrorist is safe from Chicago Ted!

[AmbivalentGuy]

If Liz Cheney would do this, say 183 times in 30 days,
and still defend "daddy",
then she'd have an informed basis for
today's lunacy.

[Madbunny]

How about just twice?
Stick a bag on somebodies head, march them into a scary room and waterboard them, twice.
See how much they defend it then.

This guy knew he had nothing to lose, he had a stop now signal, he talked to the guy doing it beforehand and he was still shaken up by it.

If this is what we've spent millions training people to use; a bottle of water, a board and a rag I want my goddam money back.

[AmbivalentGuy]

Well for what Bush did,
i think he owes us more than than that.

[in4success]

i'll take that bet if he endures it 186 times in thirty days.

[thecommonsense]

We should get rid of waterboarding. Its soooo cruel. we should do what other country’s do and cut off their heads and rip their finger nails out. Cut off their toes and fingers, burn the skin, cut out their eyeballs. That way no one would ever have to indur having water poured on them

[verdantbeast]

You're right, we should all the awful things to "those people" too so that we can be just as bad as they are and fulfil a juvenile desire to see them suffer. We can be the moral global equivalent of an 11-year-old and as a bonus perpetuate a tit-for-tat mentality that will inflame international tensions and make us look even more like a gang of thugs than we already do.

I like it.

[Rubicks]

Brilliantly stated - thank you :)

[saturnine maniac]

Or we could just stop inflicting the fear of death on people, like, you know, every other non "axis of evil" country does.

[mattwg440]

YEAH BRO!! this country has gotten way too lax, we need to get back to the good old days, witch burning and such. maybe we can ship in some foreign torture artists to show us how to really inflict some pain. hey, while we are at it lets justify the stupidity of christian religion by pointing out that islam is more violent.

whassamattawichyou

[jules23]

Is this who you want to keep company with? Y'know the rest of the western world doesn't torture. The USA are the only ones doing this. Do you really want to keep company with the despots, facists and failed states that employ these techniques? Pointing out that despots and failed states behave even worse, isn't really much of an argument. Is the USA a rat hole failed state, or is it a democracy, that claims to be a beacon of freedom? You want to live up to your own hype, try practicing what you preach. No torture. Right to trial.

[chicago25624]

Nickbergan­ddanielper­l would applaud your efforts, but they didn'tsurvive theirtor ture

[maddie0001]

Actually Marianne Perl doesn't believe in torture either. That's why the rest of the Perls don't speak to her.

[chicago25624]

Total number of deathsfrom­waterboard­ing 0

Survivorsfrom headsawedoff 0

[Raleigh Dave]

You are such a small man Chicago,

Torture is not meant to kill, it is meant to extract confessions or information while inflicting serious pain and fear of death, it is banned by the Geneva Convention and after WW2, we executed Japanese Officers who were convicted of only water-boarding.

POW's are suppose to be treated with respect and dignity until the war is over, but this is not a war, so Bush makes up a new term Enemy Combatant.

So how long do we hold prisoners without due-process, is that not the back-bone of our society.

Will not the Somalian pirate brought to the US be given council when he is charged and tried for piracy

Chicago, you are small small sad man.

[dontvote4him]

Hey RD. Put your family on a flight to LA.

[zelduh]

I understand that there were Iraqis who died as a result of being detained as "enemy combatants." Lawrence O'Donnel mentioned them on TV. I wonder how they died in our capable hands . . . I wonder how many died...

[theone718]

"I have been doing yoga this year."

"That won't help you here"

LMAO!

[HelloooCanada]

ha ha, totally, dude, i was thinking "what stupid last words" when he said that.

he might as well have said "my therapist thinks i'm the toughest bed wetter in southern california" to the guy.

[SteveDenver]

I think this will become popular in frat houses, maybe using beer and panties. GO PLAYBOY!

[hilaritee]

i was just thinking that this will become the next backyard wrestling....

[JayinPhoenix]

This is what our leaders were willing to put into print. Just imagine what was done that they all decided NOT to commit to ink and parchment. I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Personally, I am not so sure America has a moral leg to stand on anymore. The fact that we have to convince people that this is not a road America wants to go down is just sad. We are freaking cave men at best if this is acceptable to us...

[dontvote4him]

Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can drag women by their hair again.

[Cunningham]

Then don't ever fall asleep again.

[booker52]

Sounds like the guy doing the waterboarding has had it done to him or he has studied up on it very well.

[LeftRight]

Probably had it done to him. I know that we basically torture our SpecOps guys when they are in SERE training so that they can better withstand it if it happens to them for real....

[jfrye]

SERE isn't just for Special Ops. I was required to attend as an aircrewman.

[theyearofasking]

as far as i know, no real waterboarding victim gets a nice chat beforehand explaining what will happen, and a "how are you doing" sort of conversation afterwards. waterboarding for playboy may not technically be torture, but waterboarding as an interrogation technique certainly is.

[LeftRight]

Not to mention the fact that a man walked in, got that nice chat, KNEW that he was only going to be waterboarded for 15 seconds, had an easy out, and STILL couldn't last more than 5 seconds!! I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that's not torture has no idea what they are talking about!!!

[SamFrancis007]

Was this suppose to be a joke? If that was torture, then the word no longer has meaning.

[lungfish]

I am a freediving instructor. I dive underwater below 100ft without tanks. I can hold my breath for over 6 minutes and can do repeated, back to back, 5min plus breathholds - its part of what we call tolerance tables(google it if you want to know more).
If I am below 100ft and I lose my mask, or dive without it, and am pressured to, say, four atmospheres (140ft - a daily dive depth) I can maintain the composure necessary to return safely to the surface. Heck I can do it at almost twice that depth. And that involves long dives of over two minutes...

I can't do it with someone punching me in the stomach while they pour water up my nose, I am sure of it. The sense of suffocation IS torture. I have been deep too long and that feeling is torture....

Those who promote this kind of treatment have no idea what they are doing to someone and it is undoubtedly torture.

[Rosewren]

Not only the waterboarding but the combination of other techniques with it would be intolerable. Imagine going thru it 183 times in 30 days, plus all the other stuff.