A community portal about Torture with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Torture is the infliction of pain intended to break the will of the victim or victims. Any act by which severe pain, whether physical or...
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A community portal about Torture with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Torture is the infliction of pain intended to break the will of the victim or victims. Any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, deterrence, revenge, punishment, sadism, or to obtain confessions for propaganda or political purposes may be called torture. It can be used as an interrogation tactic to extract confessions. Torture is also used as a method of coercion or as a tool to control groups seen as a threat by governments. A moral definition of torture proposes that the sin of torture consists in the disproportionate infliction of pain.
Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on whether to cut funding for the School of the Americas (SOA)/ WHINSEC. This notorious U.S. military training facility has had more than one name, but under its names, torture manuals have been used at the school, hundreds of its graduates of commited crimes including drug trafficking, torture, executions, and forces disappearences, all paid for by U.S. tax-payer dollars. The history is well documented and more information can be found... Read Full Story
W hen George W. Bush was at Yale, he played intra-mural basketball. Decades later, a competitor from those glorified pick-up games could still remember what the man who became our president stood out for most: he played dirty. While most of the other intra-mural players were more interested in a friendly game, Bush threw elbows, shoved other players around beneath the basket and generally evinced a “win at all-costs” attitude that some of the other players found unseemly, according to a... Read Full Story
Israel's UK Ambassador Prosor still silent on Mohammed Omer assault case Press Release, 8 August 2008 http://tinyurl.com/64k4me Friends of Mohammed Omer have reminded the Israeli ambassador, Ron Prosor, that they are still waiting after 5 weeks for an explanation of the vicious assault by Israeli security officers on the award-winning journalist as he returned home to his family in Gaza. Omer had been visiting European capitals after winning the Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism in war... Read Full Story
Torture methods claimed life of US soldier Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:22:30 GMT http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92588§ionid=3510203 A US soldier who worked as an interpreter in Iraq's prisons has shot herself dead after witnessing harsh interrogation methods by the US military . Alyssa Peterson from Arizona shot herself with her service rifle at Tal-Afar air base in northern Iraq on September 15, 2003, the Independent reported on Sunday Peterson had protested to her superiors about the torture... Read Full Story
Allysa Peterson was a beautiful 27-year old soldier assigned to an Iraqi prison where torture techniques were being used on Iraqi prisoners . Allysa had already seen what the Bush/Cheney "regime " wanted done to Iraqi prisoners and it had sickened her. She refused to be a part of the barbaric practice of torturing Iraqi prisoners and committed suicide. For years the Bush/Cheney "regime" and the U.S. military covered up the cause of her death, but now the full story has come out. Allysa's... Read Full Story
Y ou can rack the word anyway you want, torture is wrong.
And mean, vicious, inhumane techniques like forced enemas, confining a person with biting bugs, water boarding, and driving nails into a man’s hands and feet are torture.
If an enemy of our country commits torture against our forces or our allies that is a crime.
If we commit torture against our enemies, that is a crime.
Politicians and pundits will argue from now until the end of time about whether the torture we imposed on a... Read Full Story
Eight-year-old Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli rocket Khan Younis, (PIC)-- The body of 8-year-old Aya al-Najjar was mutilated on Thursday afternoon by a rocket fired from an Israeli airplane while she was playing in the garden outside her house in the village of Khuza'a in the southern Gaza Strip. The little girl had just finished her school exams and went home eager to play as she had no more revision to do. She asked her mother if it was ok for her to play in the garden and the... Read Full Story
Ben Allbright’s story is about a nation I don’t know. It’s about an America that doesn’t know that torture is just plain evil and inexcusable no matter what. It’s about an America where people who expose evil are shunned and threatened. It’s about an America where people can call themselves Christians and really be devils. It’s a bout an America where patriotism is not standing up for what’s right but just doing what the system tells you because the other guys are evil too. It’s about people... Read Full Story
Following up on Digby.. Check it out.. This: http://news.aol.com/article/man-falls-to-death-after-being-tasered/188028 Led to this: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/02/taser.officer.dead.ap/index.html Tazers=uncool. Cops are supposed to use them when suspects do not comply with orders and pose a risk to themselves or the cop, problem is Cops use them to gets suspects to comply more quickly, or they use them in instances where they just shouldn't. It's my belief that once you open up the... Read Full Story
John Yoo just got done with a little editorial on NPR wherein he lays out why we can't possibly allow the prisoners in Gitmo to have a day in court. Problem is, throughout his long idiotic tirade he repeatedly referred to them all as "P.O.W.'s". I kept thinking 'but you're the asshole who invented the term "enemy combatants". See the trick is, call them enemy combatants and suddenly there are no P.O.W. protections for the guys. That's how it works when you just make shit up, you play by your... Read Full Story
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