Torture

Torture

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...

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.

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Vote in Congress TOMORROW!

Written by QuestionMain on
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 on the SOA Watch website . The vote is expected to be very close, so please contact your Representative in Congress and ask that they vote ... Read Full Story

Pick up B-Ball and Torture

Written by pundito on
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 profile I read in the New Yorker or some other “liberal” publication. That image has stuck with me, and, in light of revelations ... Read Full Story

Israel's UK Ambassador Prosor still silent on Mohammed Omer assault case

Written by propal on
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, which was presented to him in London.   The group had asked Mr Prosor to persuade the authorities in Israel to investigate the incident and, if there was any truth in ... Read Full Story

FEMALE SOLDIER COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER WITNESSING TORTURE METHODS IN IRAQ

Written by CORKSPHERE on
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 tactics that were very different from the ones she had known in training and had asked to be reassigned before the incident. The cause of her death was kept secret ... Read Full Story

FURTHER UPDATE ON FEMALE SOLDIER WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE FOR NOT PARTICIPATING IN TORTURE OF IRAQI PRISONERS

Written by CORKSPHERE on
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 untimely death is just another nail in the coffin that hopefully will bring former President George W. Bush and Vice ... Read Full Story
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