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Saturday
Apr252009

"Pain" And "Suffering" As Distinct Concepts: The Waterboarding Memo Set To Music

What starts of as a novelty music video quickly becomes much more. In setting the waterboarding memo text to music, Jonathan Mann makes plain the linguistic gymnastics required to separate the "pain" and "suffering" of waterboarding from the "pain and suffering" of regular torture. Remember, "The waterboard is simply a controlled acute episode,/ lacking the connotation of a protracted period of time/ generally given to suffering." All clear?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSXbA9j0Js&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]


[via Boing Boing]



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