Is Torture Good Or Bad

9/11, the Madrid train Bombings, New Delhi bombing, the London bombing and even the lindt café siege, what do they all have in common… They were acts of terrorism. What is terrorism? Terrorism is defined as the unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims, but how does the media portray terrorism? The media portrays terrorism as bad people doing bad things and show those fighting it as good men doing good things but when do they talk about the “good Men” doing bad things?
Most of you would have heard of Guantanamo bay and what happens inside the barbed wire fences, a regular cell at Guantanamo Is extremely plain and has a slit for a window with flickering florescent lights with a bed too short for me to lie on. In 2002 the international committee of the red cross inspected the camp and stated "the construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture." That brings us the word torture. Torture can be used for many things and has many different forms but why use torture? The biggest reason torture is
This form of torture is waterboarding. It has been widely reported that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was using waterboarding on extrajudicial prisoners, Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, are, in the context of the early twenty-first century War on Terrorism, foreign nationals the United States detains outside of the legal process required within United States legal jurisdiction. This means that they the CIA are keeping people detained and putting them through their own “justice system” even though they have the right to be tried in front of a jury of their