[Marxism] When Great Britain tortured Communists (3)

[Brian Shannon <brian_shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was originally posted by Louis Proyect, who thanked Lenin's
Tomb. Since then it has been posted by truthout.org

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/B040306Y.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1745489,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1745662,00.html

This should now be retitled "When Great Britain tortured Communists
and why this is being withheld by the U.S. media."

I am sure that some on this list follow the www.news.google.com. You
would never had seen this article there. I used it to search for
Cobain Germany Torture in the search line of the site. The first
couple of days, there were 8 hits. Popular science stories get from
20 to 100 hits, unless it is a little bit sensational about the fish
that may have been evolving into a land creature. Ordinary political
stories go for 200 to slightly under 2,000. A really important story
about golf may get over 3,000. (Don't shake your head, it's not my
fault.)

But 8 hits. So I waited. It went down to 6. Now it is at 2. Even when
it was at 8, every paper was either British or some part of the old
empire.

If you try Google itself, you will get the same results. There are
only 35 hits and they are overwhelmingly of the old British Empire.
The first hits get many more, but filtering out by putting in
negatives for "Kurt Cobain" and pre 2006 articles by Ian Cobain
brought it down to a legitimate number:
"ian cobain" torture germany communists -suicide  -"kurt cobain"
-2005 -2004 -2003 -2002

Of course, this must go beyond media reticence. There has to be a
psychological aspect. Absolutely no one wants to confront the idea
that British intelligence, at the very end of WWII, well before the
Cold War is reputed to have started, engaged in torture as degraded
as that of the enemy--both Germany and Japan--with photos that
resemble those of the concentration campus that were being liberated.

It is not possible to allow it, and in the political sphere as in the
individual, such concepts must be repressed.

Brian Shannon



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