Anti-torture protest

Antitorture activist (and US Navy veteran) Joe Tougas undergoes simulated waterboarding on the UC Berkeley campus.
Although organizors later revealed that Tougas had plastic over his face to prevent water from filling his lungs , he still described the sensation of confinement and suffocation as among the most terrifying of his life.
"I wanted people to understand what waterboarding is, how horrendous and horrible and torturous this is," Tougas told me. "And it being done in our name... Right now, as we speak, someone is being tortured by the U.S. in a dark prison, and they're never going to see their family again. I get to go home tonight, but they're never going to get to go home again."
There's also a not-very-good video I shot at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Q-TdrjBXA& eurl=http://arabi...

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items are from 14 Nov 2007.