The epitome of euphemism to deceive the public is when torture to get information only results in "maybe it worked" or "there is no reliability" in unendurable pain." Would anyone feel secure if told by the brain surgeon, "Well, sometimes it works and other times it doesn't!" Most people would look for an alternative. When prisoners will lie to stop cruel, heartless bestiality that even stops them from breathing, they will plead for death instead of torture.
Dear Ones,
One can't help but be aghast to hear men who have never suffered through torture say it is "only discomfort." Even War Hawk John McCain deplores torture since he was a prisoner of war himself, He should know more than blowhards mouthing off to get them off the hook themselves.
To prove the serious behavior of men authorizing torture should be for them to experience the "inconvenient interruption" to their lives, to feel what torture really is. To save the false-faces of the those responsible for illegal torture, it is critical to know American Indian women were tortured through forced sterilization and genocide supported the Indian Health Services (formerly under BIA) in the 1970s–where government under a CIA president funded these atrocities that went undercover for years.
Something no one is emphasizing that this device to make pain so excruciating affects the heart and mind, with the victims often and not recorded why they also die from the ordeal. When the body is put through such barbaric measures the heart is greatly affected physically as torture raises blood pressure in anyone to badly beaten and twisted in painful positions–as well as murder–what absolutist religions do to make people convert.
The mind is also badly abused when prisoners are put through this ordeal. When a person gets no respect, is sexually abused and made to stand naked for long times or forced to lie down on cold concrete chained to prison wars, he is condemned as subhuman.
War constantly causes wounded warriors to have mental as well as physical problems all their lives, with a great percentage of them committing suicide remembering in nightmares of horrible treatment that was reality. The extreme stress of war as well as imprisonment is the result of the brutality and the atrocities they've been put through on battlefield warfare where anything goes, why some soldiers go berserk. It used to be called shell shock but now has a long abbreviated term to lessen the harsh blow.
The present administration has made history in attempting to over come wars and sending young people over seas to endure the worst of Pandora's Box chock full of killing devices and toxic ammo.
Temporary war drones represent the first step in weaning away the CIA and Pentagon to make a change to help others instead of kill and maim them for life. Wars kill massively, while killer drones are merely a step in the progress of human evolution. Eventually they will only be used for good purposes, and the historic machines of war will fill museums as cannons and cannon balls now do as reminders of archaic human behavior just as the London Tower museum are shades of the tortureous Christian Inquisition and military tribunal representing inequality and biased religion.
The United States exports more torture devices than any other country, according to the ACLU a number of years ago.
Mahatma Gandhi, trying to make his friends–the Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims of India and Pakistan more humane spent his life to improve the world through peace and health reforms. When he was murdered, Muslims and Hindus and all came forth to honor him with rose metals and honor him as the most highest ranking human being they had ever known. Prime Minister Jawahar Nehru, along with the millions of people wept tears of grief.
In 1947 Indian gained her freedom from colonizing England. But it was British Viceroy Governor General Lord Mountbatten, who supported a United World College, who also helped his dear friend Mohandas Gandhi achieve his dreams–India making its own sea salt (read Pearl Bucks, The Good Earth) and spinning its own cotton, education on health and cleanliness, improvement of the environment, water and food conservation and attempts to decrease or eliminate needless industrial production, especially radioactive bombs and missiles, such as US and other nation's atomic bombs–what that peace-loving man deplored.
General Louis Mountbatten said about his close friend, "Mahatma Gandhi will go down in history on a par with Buddha and Jesus." And the little defender of peace instead of war never carried a knife or a gun until he was old and dying. Yet he walked among the poor and oppressed in the "black hole of Calcutta" and with great masses of Hindus and Muslims. Nearly on his dying bed, a conspiracy of his own people–the elite–politically assassinated him. He would never had condoned torture of any human being.
Mame,
helenesmith1.blogspot.com senior co-author with Mickey Coyote of The Second Century of Dishonor (Apsaalooka) by the government, following Helen Hunt Jackson's The First Century of Dishonor of the government 100 years before–with both titles presented to all members of Congress who ignored it
