Filed under: Books, Bush Administration, Civil Rights, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Torture, Word-Smithing
International law,and the ICC is for everyone else.Particularly brown skinned others from impoverished and under developed states.
Because when the U.S violates basic human rights & commits war crimes…
Serious People understood — and still understand — that our leaders made complex and weighty decisions for our own Good and that terms like “lawbreaking” and “war crimes” and “prosecutions” have no place in respectable American political circles. Hence, our political leaders operate in a climate where they know they can do anything — anything at all, including flagrantly breaking our most serious laws — and they will be defended, or at least have their behavior mitigated, by a virtually unanimous political and media establishment.
Yep they go together and more so than many would have guessed,including yours truly….
An exhaustive study of…’clean tortures,’ or tortures that leave no permanent scars. Electrotorture, water tortures, stress and duress positions, beating, noise, drugs and forced exercises all make an appearance. The book is a towering achievement, a serious work of social science on an urgent topic that is too frequently surrounded by assumption and myth. It should be read and disseminated widely…The book is devoted to exploding one myth in particular: that clean tortures can casually and reliably be traced to the ancients, or, failing that, to the Nazis. Rejali’s provocative thesis is that most clean tortures were actually born in democracies, especially imperial Britain and France.
arius RejaliSupport alternative lit & also help to make shopping at Amazon guilt free.
Although I try to buy from independent book stores it is not always possible,so the next best thing would be to try and encourage Amazon to do the right thing…
A petition has been started to encourage Amazon.com to have an “alternative” or “small presses” category in its pull down menu under “books”.
