tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974893846640978769.post853548475206592107..comments2023-09-26T07:35:33.224-07:00Comments on daggatt blog: the anti-torturersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974893846640978769.post-20417255536070186572009-01-12T21:11:00.000-08:002009-01-12T21:11:00.000-08:00People don't see the OLC torture memo as a big dea...People don't see the OLC torture memo as a big deal because America is now saturated in torture. Police <A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71096" REL="nofollow">torture innocent citizens with tasers</A>, typically <A HREF="http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7p1sv/virginia_teen_tasered_to_death_in_his_own_home_by/" REL="nofollow">torturing them to death</A>, hundreds of times a year -- and the <A HREF="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/2008/04/list-of-337-people-tasered-to-death-by.html" REL="nofollow">rate of taser death is accelerating</A>, growing <A HREF="http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=ENGUSA20060328001" REL="nofollow">exponentially</A>. The average citizen who has done nothing wrong knows that s/he is now as likely as not to be tasered to death during a routine traffic stop by some thug cop, and they're far more worried about this than about what happens to some brown-skinned guy at Bagram airbase or in Gitmo.<BR/><BR/>Moreover, America's love affair with torture continues to intensify. The U.S. army now deploys pain rays (in plain language, torture rays) using teraherz microwave frequencies for "crowd control." Translation: protestors will now be tortured in public with microwave blasts that make their skin feel like it's on fire.<BR/><BR/>Of course this sounds so demented it seems like something out of a lurid 1930s FLASH GORDON serial with Ming the Merciless cackling and rubbing his hands with glee as innocent victims get tortured with a pain ray...so here are <A HREF="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-482560/Run-away-ray-gun-coming--We-test-US-armys-new-secret-weapon.html" REL="nofollow">some links</A> to the <A HREF="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/army-ordering-p.html" REL="nofollow">documentated facts about the deployment of pain rays</A>.<BR/><BR/>Oh, but wait...it gets worse. The <B>big</B> problem with torture, as the Israelis discovered when they started using it only on a few "high value" terrorist targets in their prisons, is that once torture becomes socially acceptable, it spreads like wildfire. Soon the Israelis discovered that <I>every prisoner</I> was getting tortured, not just the terrorists. Which mirrors exactly the experience at Abu Ghraib. That's why the <A HREF="http://www.addameer.org/detention/torture.html" REL="nofollow">Israeli high court banned torture back in 1999.</A><BR/><BR/>Right on schedule, <A HREF="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/pain-beams-go-i.html" REL="nofollow">proposals have now surfaced</A> to allow <B><I>police</I></B> to <A HREF="http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article4176537.ece" REL="nofollow">use handheld pain rays.</A><BR/><BR/>Once Western society reaches that point, it's game over. Police will obviously start using their handheld pain rays to torture false confessions out of innocent people on the streets. If you think tasers are horrific, just wait...you ain't seen nothin' yet.<BR/><BR/>Given the rapidity of this descent into wild insanity, no wonder the public doesn't give a damn about the OLC's torture memo. America is about to become a nightmare from hell where the thug cops who stops for a broken headlight will torture your child to death with a pain ray just because he feels like it...and, as always, the review board will declare "the use of force was appropriate and necessary under the circumstances."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com