the tortured torturer
Interesting stuff:
Not long ago in Iraq, he felt "absolute power," he said, over men kept in cages. Lagouranis had forced a grandfather to kneel all night in the cold and bombarded others in metal shipping containers with the tape of the self-help parody "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction," by comedians Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. ("They hated it," Lagouranis recalled. "Like, 'Please! Just stop that voice!' ")
If you are a content producer it may be worthwhile to have your lawyer add a "no torture" clause to your copyrights so you can sue assholes like Mr. Lagouranis.
Labels: Brits, Debacle in Iraqle, fascism
posted by Mary Cheney's Love Child @ 1:25 PM
3 comments
3 Comments:
i love how the article says the debate over the use of torture is going on right now, while Bush has been trumpeting the line "we do not torture" for a couple of years. yep, you can bet the debate is about the need to be sure the torture we have been doing, and still are doing, isn't described or perceived as such.
their tactic seems to be to just re-define whatever they are doing that is wrong. so for example, things like sensory deprivation used to be considered a form of torture. now it's a form of "enhanced interrogation technique". They probably call wiring someones balls up to a car battery "electrically-induced discourse enhancement".
they love Newspeak don't they? here's an interesting fact about our freedom loving leaders: the term "enhanced interrogation techniques" was coined by the frickin' NAZIS.
Post a Comment
<< Home