Hellboy and Tux Torture
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07/21/2004 02:30 AMCollectible figure stands atop your door hinge and easily becomes
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Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
06/12/2004 04:45 AMSeymour Hersh Talks of Child Torture, Looks Frightened .. The scariest
part .. getting E-mail .. How low? ..
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"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"
"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"
06/08/2004 08:23 PMThieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6
Thieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6
05/06/2004 10:04 AMBush Privately Chides Rumsfeld (washingtonpost.com) .. The Washington
Post
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More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6
More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6
05/06/2004 04:44 AMwashingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5623-2004May5.html
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Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture
Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture
06/04/2004 03:58 PM
Torture and Truth
and
The
Logic of Torture--Mark Danner writes about
Article 15-6
Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (The Taguba
Report) and
Report of the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of
War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq
During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation in the former and
concludes thusly in the latter:
Behind the exotic
brutality so painstakingly recorded in Abu Ghraib, and the multiple
tangled plotlines that will be teased out in the coming weeks and
months about responsibility, knowledge, and culpability, lies a simple
truth, well known but not yet publicly admitted in Washington: that
since the attacks of September 11, 2001, officials of the United
States, at various locations around the world, from Bagram in
Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba to Abu Ghraib in Iraq, have been
torturing prisoners. (More Within) Torture Inc.
Torture Inc.
04/04/2005 11:14 PM
Torture
Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted
With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse
inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in
Iraq? Warning: tiny, NSFW, embedded Windows Media file.
Regarding the Torture of Others
Regarding the Torture of Others
05/25/2004 08:50 PMIf you haven't already: read Susan Sontag's piece on the images from
Abu Ghraib, published in this past Sunday's
New York Times
Magazine.
There is more and more recording of what people do, by themselves. At
least or especially in America, Andy Warhol's ideal of filming real
events in real time -- life isn't edited, why should its record be
edited? -- has become a norm for countless Webcasts, in which people
record their day, each in his or her own reality show. Here I am --
waking and yawning and stretching, brushing my teeth, making
breakfast, getting the kids off to school. People record all aspects
of their lives, store them in computer files and send the files
around. Family life goes with the recording of family life -- even
when, or especially when, the family is in the throes of crisis and
disgrace. Surely the dedicated, incessant home-videoing of one
another, in conversation and monologue, over many years was the most
astonishing material in ''Capturing the Friedmans,'' the recent
documentary by Andrew Jarecki about a Long Island family embroiled in
pedophilia charges.
An erotic life is, for more and more people, that which can be
captured in digital photographs and on video. And perhaps the torture
is more attractive, as something to record, when it has a sexual
component. It is surely revealing, as more Abu Ghraib photographs
enter public view, that torture photographs are interleaved with
pornographic images of American soldiers having sex with one another.
In fact, most of the torture photographs have a sexual theme, as in
those showing the coercing of prisoners to perform, or simulate,
sexual acts among themselves. One exception, already canonical, is the
photograph of the man made to stand on a box, hooded and sprouting
wires, reportedly told he would be electrocuted if he fell off. Yet
pictures of prisoners bound in painful positions, or made to stand
with outstretched arms, are infrequent. That they count as torture
cannot be doubted. You have only to look at the terror on the victim's
face, although such ''stress'' fell within the Pentagon's limits of
the acceptable. But most of the pictures seem part of a larger
confluence of torture and pornography: a young woman leading a naked
man around on a leash is classic dominatrix imagery. And you wonder
how much of the sexual tortures inflicted on the inmates of Abu Ghraib
was inspired by the vast repertory of pornographic imagery available
on the Internet -- and which ordinary people, by sending out Webcasts
of themselves, try to emulate.
Link "Regarding the Torture of Others"
"Regarding the Torture of Others"
05/24/2004 08:36 PMBut it's not torture?
But it's not torture?
06/23/2004 04:53 AMFrom the Washington Post report on the torture memos released today:
On Oct. 11, 2002, for example, the commanding general at the
Guantanamo Bay detention center, Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey, asked his
commander to approve the use of death threats against detainees and
their families, wrapping a detainee in wet towels to "induce the
misperception of suffocation," stress positions, exposing them to cold
weather and water, and using dogs. These techniques had been reviewed
and deemed legal under the Geneva Conventions by Dunlavey's legal
adviser, Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, who wrote that they would be
permissible "so long as there is an important governmental objective"
and the tactics are not used "for the purpose of causing harm or with
the intent to cause prolonged" mental or physical suffering. Maj. Gen.
Michael Dunlavey and Lt. Col. Diane Beaver should have been
involuntarily retired on October 12, 2002. Kudos to Gen. James T. Hill
for not going along with the worst of these abuses. Still, is it any
wonder why the whole world is suspicious of what is happening at the
prison in Guantanamo?...
Torture
Torture
05/10/2004 01:49 AMI’m one of the small minority of Canadians who thought invading Iraq
was a good idea. But if I’d had to write a one-liner as to why, it
would have been something along the lines of “to stop the torture
and brutality in the Baghdad hellholes.” Well, so much for that...
What is torture?
What is torture?
05/05/2004 11:24 AMI was driving east down Sunset Boulevard with a friend last night. We
stopped to let some AMWs (
actress-model-whatevers) cross the
street from SkyBar toward Chateau Marmont, and my friend turned to me
and said, "What exactly is torture? How do you define it? Does hooking
up fake electrodes to a prisoner's hands, and telling them they're
real -- is that torture?" When the be-botoxed cosmetic engineering
specimens reached the other curb, we drove on. "Yes," I replied, but
I couldn't provide the more thorough answer he wanted.
So, coincidentally, BoingBoing reader Tony sends in this timely
reminder that real definitions of torture do exist. Here is one of
them -- from the UN Convention Against Torture, which the US
government ratified along with 70 other countries. Tony says, "Every
time I turn on the TV or radio, the media and the government itself is
talking about US military 'abuses.' Let's be clear: what's happening
at Abu Ghraib is not 'abuse' but 'torture.'"
If I were thinking clearly last night, I'd have told my friend, "It's
torture when they do it. It's abuse when our guys do it."
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Torture and Mayhem
Torture and Mayhem
04/02/2005 01:16 PM
The Mysterious Torture Jet: This
story about a jet owned by a Red Sox executive that has apparently
been used for secret flights, abductions, 'renditionings'
and expulsions, transport of VIPs under the radar screen, and many
trips in and out of Guantanamo, and which recently had its markings
changed when private plane-watchers began logging its trail, appeared
a
couple of weeks ago. Since then, I have seen no follow up. Anyone
heard
anything new?
More
Intrigue in the Kazemi Torture-Murder Case: Today Canadian PM
Paul Martin acknowledged
that he knew Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi had been brutally
tortured and murdered by Iranian authorities two years ago for daring
to photograph a protest demonstration in Teheran. But this information
was withheld so that the doctor who could refute the Iranian
assertions
that her fatal head wound was caused by 'a fall' (that was the
official
Iranian court ruling), could safely sneak out of Iran and not face a similar fate
himself. That has now happened and the details of the torture are
gruesome, even by Iranian standards. It is now likely that the Iranian
ambassador to Canada will be expelled and Canada will cut off
diplomatic relations with the barbaric government of that country.
Civilized world we live in, eh?
US
Conservative says Bush is No Conservative: An interesting
speech by conservative historian John Lukacs argues
that Bush, Reagan and other neocons are not true conservatives, and
have abandoned basic conservative principles in favour of lazy,
psychopathic imperialism and dangerous populist nationalism.
Interesting reading.
US
One-Way 'Free' Trade Policy Draws Global Reprisals: Canada, the
EU and six other countries this week launched
countervailing duties against US goods in protest against continuing
US
non-compliance with the WTO ruling that the Byrd Amendment violated
'free' trade agreements. Under the Amendment, the US has illegally
imposed billions of dollars in phony 'anti-dumping' duties against
goods from all its trading partners and paid over the proceeds to the
industry oligopolies supposedly hurt by the dumping actions. Watch
this
one -- it signals the end of NAFTA and the demise of 'free' trade.
Nothing is ever as it seems.
Apologies to those upset by yesterday's April Fools' post.
The graphic is, of course, from Hu
gh Macleod.
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More from the torture beat
More from the torture beat
06/09/2004 02:03 PMMore U.S. Torture Detailed
More U.S. Torture Detailed
12/19/2004 03:18 PMCNN: ACLU: Records
show Marines tortured Iraqi prisoners. The abuse of naked Iraqi
prisoners received the bulk of publicity, but those incidents were
just some of many clandestine occurrences in which detainees endured
shock, burns and mock executions, newly released Pentagon records
reveal.
Denials from the Pentagon and White House
aside, no one can plausibly suggest anymore that senior people in the
Bush administration and military did not know about what was going on.
This behavior was too widespread, and too contrary to the fundamental
values this nation is supposed to support, for anyone to believe
otherwise.
There will be no accountability, of course. And too many Americans are
comfortable with the idea of torturing
them, even when the
result is even more loathing of the U.S. and a corrosion of everything
we're supposed to stand for as a nation.
Yesterday I sat in a room with an Army officer who's trying to bring
reconstruction assistance to Iraq, a man with genuinely good aims.
Everything he does will be undermined by the blatant abuses of human
rights portrayed in these military documents.
It's not good enough to say that we should do these things because
we're fighting, in some cases, an enemy who'll do terrible things.
America is supposed to be better than this.
"Legalizing Torture "
"Legalizing Torture "
06/12/2004 09:26 AMDocumenting torture
Documenting torture
05/28/2004 07:47 AMA farmer and peace activist from the American heartland talks about
his frontline battle against human rights abuses in Iraq -- long
before the world learned of Abu Ghraib.
torture is not an american value
torture is not an american value
02/01/2005 09:53 PMI am joining a growing list of Americans who oppose
the confirmation, of Alberto
Gonzales for Attorney General.
As the prime legal architect for the policy of torture adopted by the
Bush Administration, Gonzales's advice led directly to the abandonment
of longstanding federal laws, the Geneva Conventions, and the United
States Constitution itself. Our country, in following Gonzales's legal
opinions, has forsaken its commitment to human rights and the rule of
law and shamed itself before the world with our conduct at Guantanamo
Bay and Abu Ghraib. The United States, a nation founded on respect
for law and human rights, should not have as its Attorney General the
architect of the law's undoing.
In January 2002, Gonzales advised the President that the United
States Constitution does not apply to his actions as Commander in
Chief, and thus the President could declare the Geneva Conventions
inoperative. Gonzales's endorsement of the August 2002 Bybee/Yoo
Memorandum approved a definition of torture so vague and evasive as to
declare it nonexistent. Most shockingly, he has embraced the
unacceptable view that the President has the power to ignore the
Constitution, laws duly enacted by Congress and International treaties
duly ratified by the United States. He has called the Geneva
Conventions "quaint."
[. . .]
With this nomination, we have arrived at a crossroads as a nation.
Now is the time for all citizens of conscience to stand up and take
responsibility for what the world saw, and, truly, much that we have
not seen, at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. We oppose the confirmation of
Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States, and we urge
the Senate to reject him.
While it is vital that we defeat our enemies, we must not become
them in the process. As a nation, we must stand united against Albert
Gonzales and everything he represents. Torture is not an American
value.
The torture memoranda
The torture memoranda
01/06/2005 11:57 PM
Links to the government memoranda on torture and the
Geneva Convention can be found here (sign-up required) or else
through the "featured link" on www.c-span.org. While
Alberto Gonzales will probably be confirmed as Attorney General, the
memoranda were the subject of some stinging testimony by such
heavy-hitters as Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School, at the end of
today's confirmation hearing.
Tales of torture
Tales of torture
08/04/2004 10:10 AMQuestioned at gunpoint, shackled, forced to pose naked. British
detainees tell their stories of Guantanamo Bay.
Another Fan Of Torture Reveals Himself
Another Fan Of Torture Reveals Himself
03/19/2005 02:56 AM
Another Fan Of Torture Reveals Himself Eugene
Volokh, a former clerk to Justice O'Connor and a leading voice in
conservative legal circles has some interesting opinions on
punishment:
[T]hough for many instances I would prefer less painful forms of
execution, I am especially pleased that the killing — and, yes, I am
happy to call it a killing, a perfectly proper term for a perfectly
proper act — was a slow throttling, and was preceded by a flogging.
The one thing that troubles me (besides the fact that the murderer
could only be killed once) is that the accomplice was sentenced to
only 15 years in prison, but perhaps there's a good explanation. Torture’s
Torture’s
03/17/2005 02:49 AMchronicle.com/free/v51/i20/20a01201.htm#torture
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Should torture be legalized?
Should torture be legalized?
05/24/2004 09:20 AMAlan Dershowitz, an American Civil Rights and Criminal Defense lawyer,
argues that America should recognize that torture has its place in
investigations, and should legislate to make the practice accountable.
Contract to torture
Contract to torture
08/09/2004 07:59 AMA rare look at the entire Abu Ghraib report reveals that
inexperienced, under-supervised private-sector employees actively took
part in horrifying prisoner abuse.
So Torture Is Legal?
So Torture Is Legal?
06/17/2004 03:44 AMconnects some dots .. brilliant essay .. Anne Applebaum ..
Quote:
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MSNBC - The Roots of Torture
MSNBC - The Roots of Torture
05/16/2004 09:11 PMMSNBC - The Roots of Torture ..
documented
msnbc.msn.com/id/4989481
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MoveOn.org: Responding to Torture
MoveOn.org: Responding to Torture
05/07/2004 04:54 AMPlease join MoveOn.org in condemning these crimes against humanity ..
MoveOn.org: Responding to Torture .. Please sign this petition ..
useful suggestions .. petition you can
moveon.org/torture
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Torture and the chain of command
Torture and the chain of command
05/07/2004 01:26 PMFrank conversation about torture
Frank conversation about torture
05/10/2004 08:54 AMOver at Frank Paynter's there's been an interesting and useful
discussion of my attempt to find a way for the left and the right to
agree on a policy condemning torture. (As I've noted several times
now, I should have talked not about the right wing but about the Rush
wing.) Frank's first blog entry about it is here and his reply to my
reply is here. Be sure to read the comments where I am taken to task
rather severely by some exceptionally thoughtful people. (I reply
there also.)...
Was Abuse and Torture Our Policy?
Was Abuse and Torture Our Policy?
05/16/2004 10:36 AMSeymour Hersh (New Yorker): The Gray
Zone. The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in
the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision,
approved las year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand
a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al
Qaeda, t the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s
decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the
effectiveness of élite combat units, and hurt America’s
prospects in the war on terror.
See also:
Tainted by Torture,
Phillip Carter's explanation of why "evidence obtained through
coercion is undermining the legal war on terrorism."
The administration's reaction to torture
The administration's reaction to torture
05/08/2004 08:55 AM I'm pleased that the Bush administration hasn't tried to defend or
minimize our actions at Abu Ghraib. Not a word that I've heard. Of
course, I wish Bush had apologized earlier; it took about 24 hours for
the administration to decide that this was really really really bad
and not just really bad. And, I'd prefer to see a more sweeping set of
changes that address how this could ever have happened. But I'm
surprisingly not outraged by how Bush reacted once the photos went
public. Will this bring a break between Bush and the DittoHead wing of
the...
DailyKos: Torture came from on high
DailyKos: Torture came from on high
06/14/2004 03:51 AMA lengthy entry
dailykos.com/story/2004/6/13/185254/079
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US Military in Torture Scandal"
"
US Military in Torture Scandal"
04/30/2004 09:52 PM"torture that has happened at
Guantanamo"
"torture that has happened at
Guantanamo"
06/25/2004 03:22 PMTorture Policy (washingtonpost.com)
Torture Policy (washingtonpost.com)
06/18/2004 01:55 AMendorses the Amendment .. Quote: ..
WaPo
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Government silence in torture row
Government silence in torture row
03/24/2005 11:31 PMThe government has been criticised for twice refusing to reveal
whether it uses information extracted under torture by foreign
countries.
America's Problem - How Torture Came
Down From The Top
America's Problem - How Torture Came
Down From The Top
08/27/2004 01:51 PM
How Torture Came Down From the Top The
latest official reports on the prisoner abuse scandal contain a
classic Washington contradiction. Their headlines proclaim that no
official policy mandated or allowed the torture of detainees in Iraq
and Afghanistan, and that no officials above the rank of colonel
deserve prosecution or formal punishment. But buried in their hundreds
of pages of detail, for anyone who cares to read them, is a clear and
meticulous account of how decisions made by President Bush, his top
political aides and senior military commanders led directly to those
searing images of naked prisoners being menaced with guard
dogs. (More Inside)
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