May 2, 2008
Of Tongues and Ticking Time Bombs
Governments always insist on keeping their practice of torture secret — as well they should, because torture almost never works. And, in fact, it generally has profoundly negative, unintended, practical consequences. While we intuit that torture is wrong, we only know of its futility thanks to a few intrepid researchers who patiently sift the archives. For a sample of what can be known I turned to Dr. Darius Rejali, author most recently of the encyclopedic (and aptly titled) Torture and Democracy
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Great show, thanks!
One question George:
Darius stated that one of the 'shadows of torture' was that it will affect us domestically in the coming 10/20 years. He said he wrote the book so that people could use it as a reference during this period. That sort of sent chills down my spine. You didn't press him on the issue, as maybe it's more obvious in his book, but was he implying that all these techniques will be applied to us eventually?
Posted by: KevinM | May 8, 2008 8:43 AM
That's exactly what he meant. And that's what he's often found to be true in the past of other methods...
Posted by: George Kenney
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May 8, 2008 1:02 PM
Counterpunch writes about Sexual Terrorism. These 'enhanced interrogation techniques' involve forcing an individual to perform sexual acts, or threatening an individual with sexual humiliation.
Something to look forward to next time you get arrested in the USSA...
Posted by: KevinM | May 14, 2008 11:34 AM