Bruce Anderson (columnist)
Bruce Anderson is a British conservative political columnist. Formerly political editor of The Spectator and contributor to the Daily Mail, he wrote for The Independent, although his political position was typically different from the paper's editorial line, from 2003 to September 2010. He is now a freelancer.
[edit] Advocacy of torture
Bruce Anderson has been an advocate of torture in ticking time bomb scenarios, even before the 9/11 terrorist attacks brought the question to greater public prominence. In February 2010 he wrote a column for The Independent, arguing that the British government would have not just the right, but the duty, to torture if there was a ticking bomb, and that they should torture children if they believed that doing so would yield information that would avert a terrorist attack:
| “ | It came, in the form of a devilish intellectual challenge. "Let's take your hypothesis a bit further. We have captured a terrorist, but he is a hardened character. We cannot be certain that he will crack in time. We have also captured his wife and children". After much agonising, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one answer to Sydney's question. Torture the wife and children.[1] | ” |
[edit] References
- ^ We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty, Bruce Anderson, The Independent, 16 February 2010
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