No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide the Gitmo Detainees – The Atlantic, April 26, 2011 – by Andrew Cohen Whatever else the latest Wikileaks dump says about our nation’s inapt (and inept) handling of the terror-law detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the newly-revealed documents remind us again of the wide gulf
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Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: March 24, 1980 – Conservative Archbishop Romero assassination
1977: Oscar Romero, a conservative priest, appointed Archbishop of San Salvador1979: Bloodless coup by reformist army officers backed by the United States. Military-civilian junta installed in El Salvador. Torture, assassinations, kidnappings intensify…
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: March 24, 1980 – Conservative Archbishop Romero assassination
1977: Oscar Romero, a conservative priest, appointed Archbishop of San Salvador 1979: Bloodless coup by reformist army officers backed by the United States. Military-civilian junta installed in El Salvador. Torture, assassinations, kidnappings intensify. Feb 1980: Romero visited Rome and argued that it was problematic to support the Salvadoran government because
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: March 24, 1980 – Conservative Archbishop Romero assassination
1977: Oscar Romero, a conservative priest, appointed Archbishop of San Salvador 1979: Bloodless coup by reformist army officers backed by the United States. Military-civilian junta installed in El Salvador. Torture, assassinations, kidnappings intensify. Feb 1980: Romero visited Rome and argued that it was problematic to support the Salvadoran government because
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” | The Cable
March 11, 2011 – by Josh RoginArticle at:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/11/state_department_spokesman_calls_treatment_of_bradley_manning_ridiculous_and_counte””I spent 26 years in the air force. What is happening to Manning is ridicu…
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” | The Cable
March 11, 2011 – by Josh Rogin Article at:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/11/state_department_spokesman_calls_treatment_of_bradley_manning_ridiculous_and_counte “”I spent 26 years in the air force. What is happening to Manning is ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid, and I don’t know why the DoD is doing it. Nevertheless, Manning is in the right place.” There are leaks everywhere in Washington
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” | The Cable
March 11, 2011 – by Josh Rogin Article at:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/11/state_department_spokesman_calls_treatment_of_bradley_manning_ridiculous_and_counte “”I spent 26 years in the air force. What is happening to Manning is ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid, and I don’t know why the DoD is doing it. Nevertheless, Manning is in the right place.” There are leaks everywhere in Washington
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: No more "shame" – SEXING TORTURE
Sexing in the “slow torture”, “no-touch”: The torturer’s psyche and “protected umpunity”
“… But stripping is also sexually laden. It transposes sexual gestures, acts and innuendo from a strip club to the torture chamber. Thus sex is always present in the torture chamber whether the victim is a man or a woman. The sexing of torture is deeply grounded in the recesses of the torturer’s psyche.
Marnia Lazreg, Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algeria to Baghdad
“From 1950 to 1962, the CIA became involved in torture through a massive mind-control effort, with psychological warfare and secret research into human consciousness that reached a cost of a billion dollars annually – a veritable Manhattan Project of the mind.” This research produced “a new approach to torture that was psychological, not physical, perhaps best described as ‘no-touch torture.’“ It has also been referred to as “slow torture”.
Alfred McCoy – “A Question Of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War To the War On Terror“
Sexing torture in the “stealth, “slow”, “non touch” American Torture” hits the news and “SO WHAT?”
As torture, event after event, seems to be an integral part of American standard operating procedures and obviously goes unpunished in the United States, except for cases involving “few bad apples”, an article on the “slow torture” of 22 year-old man accused of leaking documents:
The National Shame of the US Military’s ‘Slow Torture’ of Bradley Manning
by John Grant – March 5 2011
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/494
“… All right! Enough of the PR-flak Orwellian crap. Everyone with a modicum of sense knows why the Quantico jailers are stripping Bradley Manning. They are stripping him because they have the power to strip him and they want to strip him. And they know that the majority of Americans and the mainstream press don’t give a damn what happens to this young man.
A friend asked me, “Why don’t they just water-board him?” It’s simple: They would if they could, but they can’t. Manning is an American and he has advocates. They can’t get away with the sorts of torture we used in the past in places like the Philippines and Vietnam and that the French used during their war in Algeria. The French experience is broken down and analyzed by Marna Lazreg in her book cited above based on archival research, diaries and interviews with torturers.
But do not fear: Our very resourceful and secret CIA learned from the French and, over the years with your tax dollars, added their own research on the topic. Here’s Alfred McCoy from his great book A Question Of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War To the War On Terror:…”
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/494
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Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: No more "shame" – SEXING TORTURE
Sexing in the “slow torture”, “no-touch”: The torturer’s psyche and “protected umpunity” “… But stripping is also sexually laden. It transposes sexual gestures, acts and innuendo from a strip club to the torture chamber. Thus sex is always present in the torture chamber whether the victim is a man or
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: No more "shame" – SEXING TORTURE
Sexing in the “slow torture”, “no-touch”: The torturer’s psyche and “protected umpunity” “… But stripping is also sexually laden. It transposes sexual gestures, acts and innuendo from a strip club to the torture chamber. Thus sex is always present in the torture chamber whether the victim is a man or
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Destroying the Evidence" …in Egypt
Egyptian Protesters Seize Evidence of Torture after storming secret police office
Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the headquarters of the nation’s secret police, seizing secret documents and evidence of torture.
Activists say documents found inside the building contain evidence of phone tapping, election rigging and torture.
A full report by McClatchy newspaper:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/05/109887/egyptian-protesters-storm-state.html
Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Destroying the Evidence" …in Egypt
Egyptian Protesters Seize Evidence of Torture after storming secret police office Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the headquarters of the nation’s secret police, seizing secret documents and evidence of torture. Activists say documents found inside the building contain evidence of phone tapping, election rigging and torture. A full report by McClatchy
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Destroying the Evidence" …in Egypt
Egyptian Protesters Seize Evidence of Torture after storming secret police office Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the headquarters of the nation’s secret police, seizing secret documents and evidence of torture. Activists say documents found inside the building contain evidence of phone tapping, election rigging and torture. A full report by McClatchy
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