Riots in France and torture in America

So the riots in France have continued night after night for almost 2 weeks now. My question is what do the rioters do during the day? I mean do they spend the day "preparing" for the next nights rioting, and if so how? It seems like if the riots aren’t day and night then they are rioting because they know they can’t be stopped. I am sure that is not news, but it puts America’s problems in perspective. Doesn’t it?

Now then the president (after the CIA got caught running secret prisons) says that America doesn’t torture. That is a lie, of course we torture, every country tortures. A successful interrogation requires torture (why else would the person talk, the interrogators charming personality?) but before you freak lets consider what constitutes torture.

The definition of torture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain or grief as an expression of cruelty, a means of intimidation, deterrent, revenge or punishment, or as a tool for the extraction of information or confessions.

So now that you are aware of the meaning of torture, you see that not all torture involves bamboo and thumbscrews. The police torture suspects all the time that is not a secret, they just don't beat them to a pulp, they don't need too. Torture abounds in society, our civilized society just has gotten better at it, there is no need to roast people alive any more. Pain is something the mind and the body can be taught to endure psychological torture on the other hand is much less noticeable and much harder to endure, so it works much better.
Banning torture is a useless gesture, it is already illegal. I am not saying torture is right, I am saying that it is part of human nature, and as long as there are people who don't just offer up information when requested, torture isn’t going to go away.
Believe me America is taking the high road here, the prisoners at camp X-ray are calling the Red Cross to complaint about the food, or that the prayer rugs are too small. If we weren’t they wouldn’t be getting food, or sleep or medical treatment, they would be locked in a cage that’s too small to stand or lie down, in total darkness, except when they were being beaten like a piñata, and everyday they would be told was their last on this earth. See the difference? That isn’t even bad torture that is relatively benign as that sort of thing goes. (I didn’t make that example up, that is a heavily edited for graphic content version of a story told to me by a former Vietnam POW.)