[lbo-talk] Torture Re: Nietzsche: Free will

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 9 16:50:08 PDT 2007


Carrol Cox wrote:

"I want torture to stop -- but it's incidental to me whether someone is made morally responsible for its occurrence."

Carroll and others,

Below is an edition of Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" that I found profoundly disturbing -- an interview with two US torture -- er, I mean "interrogation" -- experts who describe exactly how folks held overseas are tortured, how the Bush admin. exploits loopholes in int'l law, or just plain hides the tortured in far off places where no one knows about them.

It's an extremely sickening portrait of American int'l power at its ugliest & most brutal:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13

To me this is "Why aren't there riots in the streets about this shit???"-type info. (And, yes, there's a lot of other reasons to riot, but still.) But this isn't getting any traction in the mainstream press right now.

-B.



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