[lbo-talk] For Woj

[Dennis Perrin]

> > ...So, if torture doesn't work, since a prisoner in
> > agony will say pretty much anything, then what is
> > the point of it? Revenge? Fun & sadism?...
>
> Come on, Dennis, you know the answer to that as well as I; the point of it 
> is, what did that guy say, "pour encourager les autres," to scare _other_ 
> potential opponents into, if not cooperation, at least inaction. Why else 
> would the CIA have revealed the existence of these so-called "secret" 
> gulags at all?


> Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net

Of course. My question was somewhat rhetorical, though remember that many of 
my readers don't come to this material the way we do at LBO. So sometimes I 
state things in a more general way in an effort to guide people to topics 
they may not be familiar with. Then again, sometimes I get so pissed off 
that my rants might have the opposite effect. It's sorta like Good Cop/Bad 
Cop played by one person.

Dennis