Re: [Pen-l] torture chic

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
> 
> from SLATE's news summary:
>  
> I think it was a "perfect storm" of "more macho than thou" posturing
> by Bushwhackers wielding worst-case scenarios (suitcase bombs landing
> at Laguardia) to push their cases. In addition, it is the logical
> extension of an organization that runs on coercion (the state) in a
> socioeconomic system that requires it while striving to treat people
> as mere objects (capitalism).

I think it is merely that the Bush Administration did not practaice
"deniability" as carefully as did the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, &
LBJ administrations. Torture has been standard operating procedure in
all anti-guerilla suppression campaigns. And as Paul Wright, formerly a
Washington State prison inmate, editor of Prison Legal News, and now a
resident of Vermont, points out, nothing that happened at Abu Ghaib
would have surprised anyone who had spent time in U.S. prisons. And the
Indiana police chief kidnapped and executed in Uruguay some decades ago
was there for the prupose of training police there in methods of
torture. And the Shah's SAVAK learned their torture methods from the
CIA.

It is absurd to attach special blame to the Bush Administration.

CArrol

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