I'm guessing Jack Bauer will use one, because you can break pieces off it and use them to torture terrorists.
I see no difference between your view of God and that of the extreme fundamentalists who actually believe their god uses them to torture and kill others.
Using it to torture the loser was especially mean.
Pretend to use this thing to torture them, say "takes out", then "throws".
But similar pools were used to torture Christian missionaries.
You can escalate police toughness as far as you like: arm officers to the teeth, let them use electric shock batons to torture confessions out of prisoners, even turn a blind eye to extra-judicial killings by police death squads.
But generally civilian courts were better, he thought, a bit faster than before the revolution, and the police could no longer simply round up the usual suspects, as they used to, and torture them all until someone confessed.
(Hereafter, I will use 'torture' to mean the more severe, traditional outrages and 'coercion' to refer to torture lite, or moderate physical pressure).
The Salafis have room to roam now, because some of the North African dictators who used to jail and torture them are gone.
He also tells how his objections to using torture led to his being removed from interrogation duty.
