17 April 2009

torture away

torture listings

Following along, it's funny to see how the right-wingers are only pissed about themselves being inconvenienced. And not the sort of behavior being used to conveniently side-step international laws or basic human rights. Ok, so these were terrorists. What exactly did we get out of them with immediacy of actionable intel that we could only get using torture methods? When I can see that this was indeed "effective" methods of coercing information, then we can discuss keeping these as options. Until then, the Faux news cheer leading section of "real Americans" can get ready to fear for themselves for a while. They seemed so willing to permit the rest of us to live that way, apparently never thinking the tables to turn.

This one in particular was pretty 1984 sounding : "One technique approved but never used involved putting a detainee who had shown a fear of insects into a box filled with caterpillars." Remember the rats about to chew his face off? We're so creative at being creepy apparently.

Oh and keep coming up with sexual acts to refer to your protests as and which are fundamentally no different or no more coherent than the last 8 years of protests from the other side. At least the names are funnier this way. Watching various MSNBC hosts get in a glib variety of scrotal humor and innuendo was at least, good for a couple laughs. I'm sure it will get old. Hopefully by then we'll have found some other position to protest in.

2 comments:

Bazarov said...

What blows my mind is that all this took place before conviction. They did all that shit on suspicion. Would these people condone these practices if their children were suspected on something? All on suspicion? Of course it's torture. Sick fucks.

Sun Tzu said...

Did you read the memos yet (ACLU website has them)?

I kept seeing "O'Brien" talking. "You have told us he has a fear of insects. You have told us that you intend to tell him that you will put a stinging insect in the confinement box with him...." Stuff like that.