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If Mr. Parsons really believes that that’s the extent of interrogation techniques at Guantanamo, he’s a fool.

Jeez. I have no idea what goes on at Guantanamo but I would like to point out that the use of sleep deprivation, temperature controlled techniques, interrogation, blared white noise and other stress inducing methods are highly effective ways of getting prisoners to do/say/believe whatever you want — except for getting the clear truth. But in many cases, it’s more than enough and physical abuse isn’t necessarily required.

I would assume that of all the countries in the world, the United States is the most likely to use the kind of “interrogation” that doesn’t leave physical marks. In other words, Mr. Parsons may not be too far off the mark about the “extent of interrogation techniques” being used.

Regardless of the kind of torture going on at Guantanamo, it’s far more likely that whatever form is being employed it isn’t getting better answers than spy networks do, so they’re better off simply legally detaining prisoners and keeping them in good health until the law can dole out some justice — if such a thing is possible.

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If only you’d posted that a week ago, before I transfered my domain to them :-)

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This reminds me of something the Daily Show had on last week, where a guy in the government (I think someone from the House) kept insisting that the detainees at Gitmo got two different fruits for meals, even going so far to hold a basket of food up to the reporters. Don’t know if GoDaddy watched it or not to realize how ridiculous this is becoming.

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Who called for a boycott? All I see is people expressing their opinions.

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Anonymous - the one thing bleeding hearts like myself tend NOT to tolerate is the intolerance of others.

Anyone who thinks that U.S. soil is the most sacred on Earth is clearly a neo-conservative loon, one of the many who is making America a sad shadow of it’s former ‘freedom-loving’ self.

Avoiding such loons, or seeking alternate partners with which to do business is hardly the mark of hypocrites.

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I think Mr. Parsons is being incredibly unpatriotic by suggesting that U.S. torture methods are anything less than the best in the world. And to think he calls himself a patriot!

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Hey Namelesswonder,

I remember when Oprah was being sued by the beef mongers of America because she dared express a distaste for beef. Their argument was that because she was famous and that people did what she did that she was responsible for their suffering sales in beef production. There was one element of pure beef to that kind of logic — it’s called bullshit.

I’ve disagreed with Darren dozens of times on his blog and on my own. It isn’t about courage, it’s about having an opinion and I’ve never felt the need to hide my name to do it. So stay anonymous all you want but you aren’t lending any credibility to your already preposterous argument. Not to mention, the mere fact that anyone here (including myself) has wasted time discussing this with you proves that ‘us people’ are all for free speech. Calling other people morons is just a bonus.

So as to not hijack this topic I’ll gladly return with the following question: Should business owners refrain from making controversial statements like Parsons did or is this a good way of letting your customers know what you stand for?

I operate my own freelance design business but on my blog I’ve made many posts about my disapproval of Quebec’s language laws and social policies. I’m certain that there are people who won’t do business with me because of what I’ve said but to a degree maybe that’s a good thing.

Thoughts?

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Mr. Parsons’ ‘opinions’ on U.S. foreign policy amount to hate speech in my opinion. “protected at all costs” and “first to destroy them” in this case is in reference to persons whom have been charged with no crimes and are held on suspicions not even revealed to the prisoners, in a jail outside of any proper jurisdiction.

If someone holds the belief that human rights violations are A-Ok just so long as it’s Americans doing the violations, well they’re inciting their own gov’t to act like terrorists themselves. Damn straight I’ll boycott the business of such a person.

Think my beliefs are an extreme? To me that just shows how crazy ass backwards this whole situation has become.

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Paolo: I wish more people would talk about their politics on their website. It would increase a company’s transparency, and help me in choosing which companies to do business with.

I’ve always believed that if somebody doesn’t want to hire me because they read something on the Web about me, then I probably don’t want to work for them. The anonymous poster in this thread is a good example. He could be a Fortune 500 CEO, but it doesn’t sound like we’d get along very well.

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Courage Jeff, comes in the fact that I am the only person who has said anything different. Everyone who has commented on Darren’s post has been saying the same, old & tired left-wing bullshit. Don’t you people have any thoughts of your own?

As for examples of Darren’s persecution tactics, if Mr. Parsons’ were a homosexual, Darren wouldn’t have said a thing against him.

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Fortunately, Google has an older (hard to say if it’s the original) version of the June 19 posting cached at

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:nT0LQe93WYwJ:www.bobparsons.com/june2005.html+%22just+to+be+politically+correct+with+our+sworn+enemies%22

aka http://tinyurl.com/csaao

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You left-wing scum will never be satisfied until 100,000+ Americans are dead as a result of terrorist attacks, which, by the way, ARE coming, as you well know. Or, being brain-dead as your are, you WOULDN’T know are coming. There have ALWAYS been fellow-travelers, and useful idiots such as yourselves, i.e., sympathizers even within the US re: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc. It will never end. Conservatives are the only thing on earth keeping the world from going into utter darkness under yet another totalitarian dictatorship: Islamofascism. We had to fight the Germans in WWI despite you morons. We had to fight the Germans, Japanese AND Italians in WWII despite you complete tapioca-brained asswipes, we had to dismantle Communism while you cheered the opposition, and NOW we once again have to saddle up and take on the IslamoCommies with you cheering them on from the sidelines. Hey, take a clue, idiots: “A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged”.

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[...] Many might also wonder why GoDaddy isn’t in the list. GoDaddy is probably the most technically proficient registrar but it’s president supports torture. His blog post has been retracted, probably after realizing it could cost him money but it’s been taken up by others. [...]

The more I read on this blog about Go Daddy, the more I want to stay in business with them. I have 32 domains with Go Daddy and all are very successful and lucrative. Go Daddy has treated my businesses very well. I have conservative values. I pay my fair share of taxes. I raised good children. I have a great wife and family history in USA. I am thankful to the One Who Knows for what opportunities in this country have allowed me to do, say, believe, worship, and act. Not easily acquired and not easily kept. Thanks to my dad who fought evil in WWII and died as an injured veteran because he believed his children deserved a country where they could live without repression. I will stand with my fathers beliefs to defend my rights, freedoms, and responsibilities for the best country the world has ever known, and if staying with Go Daddy helps me realize my dreams because they have conservative ethics, then I say to those who want to fight against Go Daddy, be an adult and go get domains somewhere else, if they can’t serve your needs. Stop tearing them down because you don’t believe in their rights, which are just as protected by law and The Constitution as you believe your rights are. If they’ve broken contracts or laws, report them and let the American judicial system work its course. Those who use blogs as a forum to “judge” Go Daddy or me or others can probably expect the same in return, and liberals never seem to like it when conservatives demand the same rights as them. And so you turn to hate speech and gas-lighting companies and people, and you turn to reputation black-balling. You accuse, without a stable mind, that the Go Daddy owner, Mr Parsons, is not deserving of anyone’s business because he has spoken out about his conservative ideals about detainees and other suspected war criminals in Gitmo who are fighting a holy war against YOU and me, but do you not know that most mainstream religions even have conservative gods, either to preserve life by loving your enemies well, or to destroy their enemies by super-natural acts or by war. And make no doubt about it, the extremest terrorist and others who hate free thinking by people hate YOU. You can’t befriend them. You can’t TALK them into liking you. I won’t even try. You must join them to be saved. Or, you must fight them. And if you serve no god, then what dictum do you practice? Love or hate? What god do you serve?

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