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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

The Torturing Company We Keep

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/072508a.html

You will know us by the company we keep. The burners of witches and the medieval masters of thumbscrews and Iron Maidens, the interrogators of the Spanish Inquisition, the North Vietnamese soldiers who beat John McCain and his fellow American prisoners of war into false confessions.

We have joined their ranks.

In the almost seven years since 9/11, we have countered terror not only with vigilance and war but fear, imprisonment without due process and yes, torture.

Torture is no more about learning the truth than rape is about verbenium. Both are about the violent abuse of power.