The Torture Letters - harrowing tales from secret US prisions

Ingenious Crobb, ingenious....

just have been reading a book about torture in Guantanomo...its shocking to get to know that Pakistani security services sold off foreigners to US military for $5000 each, same with the gangs in Afghanistan, who basically picked up any male foreigner they could find to make money, even teachers and human rights activists.
Even worse that for example in the prison at the airport, it might have been just the US military torturing, but many of the interviewees described British, German, French, Canadian etc. forces passing, well knowing what's going on, and not interfering.

To be fair there are MANY examples throughout history where in torture was critical to national security concerns.

I direct you to the following exchange that occurred in a news conference in 1600’s between Priest Judas Mayfair and a hostile (and probably liberal) press corps that was questioning the morality of using “aggressive interrogation” techniques on the witch-detainees he held in custody.

“First of all let me assure the colonists that we do not ‘torture’ any of the witches we have in our state of the art detention facilities. We do, on rare occasions, employ aggressive interrogation techniques. Some may claim that stretching a witch on the Rack or burning the witches with hot irons is torture. I hold in my hand a legal decision from my chief counsel that clearly explains that neither of these interrogation techniques can legally be defined as torture. They are simply colony defense tools critical to our well-being and safety from witches. Already our investigations have yielded a wealth of actionable intelligence. It seems every time we interrogate one witch they immediately implicate another witch! Not even the liberals can argue that these techniques aren’t effective. We haven’t had another witch attack or drought since we began, have we?”

I would also direct any naysayer who doubts the effectiveness of torture to another press conference (chiseled in stone for posterity) held by Aztec tribal chieftains who had come under fire from the LIBERAL media in regards to their practices of ripping the hearts out of virgins to appease the terrorist Sun gods.

“Let me assure the assembled tribe that the Aztec nation does not engage in torture! What we are doing is better described as aggressive weather management. We can’t deny that this nation experienced a terrible, terrible drought a decade ago. Once we implemented the tool of ripping the still beating heart out of virgin volunteers we can’t deny that there has been a correlating absence of drought. The rains have been plentiful! In order to keep this tribe safe from droughts it is critical that I, as Chief, have these emergency virgin sacrifice powers made permanent! Those the question the wisdom of ripping the hearts out of people in order to appease the Sun gods are obviously either ill-informed or are simply evil-minded ‘Blame Aztec First’ terrorist sympathizers. It’s as simple as that.”

And how can we forget another brave leader, Stalin! He too was the victim of a liberal hate campaign that tried to distort his national security measures (through the liberal owned media) into something evil!

“Let me assure my comrades that the Soviet Union does not torture. What we are doing is helping people better understand our political philosophy in our state of the art Education Facilities in Siberia at no cost to the students! The liberals tend to leave that part out. It doesn’t cost our, uh, students anything. We fly them to Siberia free of charge and provide all of their gruel at no expense to them. Sometimes these students are sent to our re-education facilities involuntarily, but we have a duty to help them learn about how awesome it is to live in this wonderful communist country! No, we don’t torture. Our re-education philosophy does embrace a rather, uh, vigorous physical education while we explain how great the Soviet Union is, but we don’t torture.”

yet another story, for which we can do absolutely nothing. who ever wrote this article might be on a rendition flight as I type. eek.

Americans should be up in arms about what atrocities to human dignity our greatest allies in the global civil war commit in our names.

Maybe torture cells should be renamed as the John Adams electrotherapy center, or George Washington waterboard park, etc., so they can never forget our names.

All this talk of rendering people makes me think of video or animation programs. These people participating in all this activity must be thinking that they're living in a movie or something. Remember "Marathon Man" with Dustin Hoffman & Laurence Olivier? "Is it safe?"

It will never be safe for anyone while we allow this kind of unbridled power to be in the hands of such savages.

Who's inflicting terror now?

wow. gooood quote, crob.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." -Friedrich Nietzsche