BUSH ADMINISTRATION LEGACY’S OF TORTURE is a FORESHADOW OF THE FUTURE 23 AUG 2013

BUSH ADMINISTRATION LEGACY’S OF TORTURE is a FORESHADOW OF THE FUTURE. For your amusement if you ever get interrogated by Americans, here are the steps. Step 1 you get a chair. Step 2, they ratchet up the pressure by humiliation (like stripping you) and sensory deprivation. They will manipulate your phobias (do you have arachnophobia? Or is it cracks in the sidewalk?) to stress you. They will also begin to falsify the records about you at this stage. Next comes step 3 in the torture….If you can manage, you may amuse yourself with the realization that you’ve made it that far, congrats, now you get straightforward torture like electroshock, beatings, food deprivation (starvation—instead of daily bread, they give daily dread), & attempts to kill you (like the perception of drowning). Usually they don’t kill you…although they aren’t consistent…sometimes American interrogators actually kill the person they are torturing, due to ineptness or sadism or both….hey, that is one way to get out of it. And sometimes, they give the dirty work to proxies, foreigners expert in torture so you get a change in accent; that kind of “sub-contracting” has also been documented.
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Carl Jung said it is the tortured who become torturers; these sadistic people are creating a cycle of abuse. People like Dick Cheney show their true sadistic psychopathic natures by advocating torture, the same nature that allows them to abuse trauma-based mind control victims. Their demonic thinking obviously allows them to forget that God sees & will hold them accountable, what goes around will come around, even if they are able to babble about God in their speeches. In reality the same lack of concern for others, is also being shown towards themselves for when God’s patient judgment falls.
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Victims of torture have their thinking seriously damaged…they lose meaning for life, empathy & desire to connect with others, & have other permanent problems. In the past, countries that practiced widespread torture shredded the fabric of their own societies. Human rights advocate Andrea Prasow pointed out that the Bradley Manning case (who was disgusted w/ the torture in Iraq) sets a chilling precedent, rather than supporting the whistle blower & deterring crime, our govt. is trying to deter people from coming forth w/ info on crimes. She asks shouldn’t we deter crime?
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It has only been in the last few centuries that humanity has tried to progress beyond torture. In WW II, the U.S. military starved millions of German POWs to death after they surrendered. American military personnel & intelligence assets have had a long quiet history of torture, so what was behind the Bush admin. making it official policy decreed from its top policy makers?? That was rather unnecessary. Anyone remember the military/CIA School for the Americas in the 1980’s teaching Latin American allies how to torture? Did the PTSNB anticipate that the Bush administration’s policy of torture would leak out, and calculate it would instill fear & obedience in the rest of us? Obviously, they had no fear of the International Criminal Court, which if it truly functioned would have indicted & convicted all the members at the top of the Bush admin. w/ war crimes, like we did in part with the Nazi leaders. Different times, same crimes.
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While the approval for torture came from the top (according to King George II), the actual mechanics were that Maj. Gen. Mike Dunlavey head of interrogation at Guantanamo requested the freedom to torture. A memo in line with that was written by William J. Haynes II (General Counsel Def. Dept.) and sent to Sec. of Defense Rumfield who signed “approved”. This then was sent to Guantanamo and was signed off by Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, the JAG’s Staff Judge Advocate (JTF-GITMO). By this time, Dunlavey was replaced at Guantanamo by Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, also infamous for Abu Ghraib, and cont. his calling in life to torture at GITMO. So all kinds of people who should have known better (i.e. that torture is illegal by U.S. law, U.N. and International law, and 3rd & 4th Geneva Conventions) acted like all those laws did not exist. When questioned about the U.S. policy to torture detainees, King Bush (a victim himself of trauma-based mind control) replied, “We’re a nation of laws…and that might provide comfort for you.” When I heard this, I wanted to ask him, When was the last time you told the truth? Don’t lie to commit aggressive war, murder people & torture people & then try to tell me you are a defender of rights & the savior of America. Telling us torture is “enhanced interrogation technique” is like calling rape “enhanced seduction technique”.
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Recently victims of Abu Ghraib torture brought a war crime lawsuit against their abusers, & a U.S. judge denied it on the technicality that the prison wasn’t on American soil…that’s quibbling, because it was territory under our occupation. A few days ago the security contractor involved in the torture, CACI, is now suing the victims for having brought a war crime case against them! It can be disgusting how upside down this world has become. Many of the alphabet soup agencies got involved in the torture at Guantanamo & Abu Ghraib including: DIA, CIA, NSA, DHS, & the FBI. How big of a man does it take to beat, electro-shock & torture a defenseless gagged & bound victim who can’t even give feeble resistance?
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Why should Americans care about torture of prisoners?? America has lost its good name…and like Germany it will take a long time to regain the admiration & respect of the world. What made Americans proud of the Amer. way of life was that we were a nation of laws regulating our govt., where the rule of law prevailed, not some dictator or king. Our constitution forbid cruel & unusual punishment…the acronym for cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment is CID. Even CID is illegal before it becomes torture. Wherever Americans travel they are now going to receive what others perceive we give to our enemies, i.e. torture! Americans are in danger worldwide. Why should anyone who hates us treat us better than how we treated our detainees? Amer. Govt. misconduct sets the standard for others to flaunt international law, misbehave & torture. Anyone who believes in America, who agrees w/ the ideals professed by our Founding Fathers, should be disgusted by a govt. that openly ignores international & national law, & the progress of civilization to torture its prisoners (not to mention their own children). Just because it hasn’t happened to you doesn’t make it right….O.K. now I’ll get off my soapbox.