The Darkest Corner Of The Mind...
Found at Fallenmonk's place...a must read!
US interrogators have devised a new form of torture. It debases the democracy they claim to be defending.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 12th December 2006.
After thousands of years of practice, you might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But you should never underestimate the human capacity for invention. United States interrogators, we now discover, have found a new way of destroying a human being.
Last week, defence lawyers acting for Jose Padilla, a US citizen detained as an “enemy combatant”, released a video showing a mission fraught with deadly risk – taking him to the prison dentist. Finish here...it's not long...it's shocking though.
This is the man responsible for any of those incarcerated men that ARE innocent that their lives have been torn apart...and perhaps have indeed gone mad in the process. One can only hope that this man for all seasons will one day feel those very seasons himself...so he can have a better understanding of the process...you know...the deprivation and all.
President Bush maintains that he is fighting a war against threats to the “values of civilised nations”: terror, cruelty, barbarism and extremism. He asked his nation’s interrogators to discover where these evils are hidden. They should congratulate themselves. They appear to have succeeded. And I leave you with a BIG amen!
cross-posted@Blanton's & Ashton's
That is really sick. Especially coming from what are supposed to be civilized nations..
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:16 AM
ditto that!
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:24 AM
Torture has always been used as an intimidation and power-over tool. The users just CLAIM that it's to gain information. It's all about bullies who have been allowed to go as far as they want against defenseless victims. Oh, I could go on and on about the horrible, evils of torture. Any sane human being ought to realize that it's just plain wrong wrong wrong.
Posted by
PBS |
4:31 AM
This administration is a sick as it can get and that worries me to say that because they get worse every time I do.
Posted by
Peacechick Mary |
6:16 AM
The erasure of Padilla's memory dovetails with conspiracists who insist the he is the "John Doe #2" spotted with Timothy McVeigh shortly before he blew up the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in OKC.
Posted by
Lew Scannon |
5:50 PM
A war always has a brutalizing effect on the humans. The standards of behaviour and ethical codes will go down lower longer the war lasts.
All our war crazed leaders, through out the history, have sold us an idea of the noble war and we have always bought it. However, these megalomanical, narcissistic, sociopaths, whether we call them kings, emperors, or presidents, are starting to have a harder time of selling it to us. The information is not as easilly controled as it used to be, giving us a better handle about the truth and thus giving us at least a better chance to stop senseless mayhems for their personal clory.
It is just too bad, that too many of us still swallow the official line without bothering to think for themselves or relying on broader sources of the information that is out there. Based on that, wars and thus also torture is going to be with us a long, long time... maybe forever.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:38 PM
My imagination couldn't take me to that special place to realize they could or would do things like this to people. Madness may be worse than inflicting wounds. You can get over wounds even though they may have a psychological effect with memories. But, deliberately robbing a person of their mind goes beyond-the-pale in my opinion.
I guess the more civilized a nation is...the more sophisticated their methods may beto work on that person for whatever reason.
I don't know where I've been, but I hadn't heard about Padilla and Tim McVeigh. Pity if it were true.
Well if the standards go down (obviously) as the "war" carries on...then we are in for it I guess. We grow up learning about the fall of the Roman Empire...I guess it's time again for the world to witness a crash like it again. What a shame and waste of human life.
Posted by
sumo |
11:53 PM