[lbo-talk] CIA torture techniques

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun May 30 22:09:24 PDT 2004


Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> > There's just one huge problem with this theory: even if you do return
> people to the infantile state, there's one thing everyone agrees about
> that theoretically constructed state: that people, when in it, can't tell
> the truth from fiction.
>

True, but not really relevant, because the purpose isn't collecting information but (as I believe Chuck also pointed out in one of his posts) creation of general terror. The search for information for the most part is merely a nominal excuse for scaring the shit out of a whole population by hurting people.

Carrol



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