19 December 2005
Torture
Torture's Long Shadow by Vladimir Bukovsky, who spent 12 years in soviet prison:
Even talking about the possibility of using CID [cruel, inhumane or degrading] treatment sends wrong signals and encourages base instincts in those who should be consistently delivered from temptation by their superiors. As someone who has been on the receiving end of the "treatment" under discussion, let me tell you that trying to make a distinction between torture and CID techniques is ridiculous.
......how can you force your officers and your young people in the CIA to commit acts that will scar them forever? For scarred they will be, take my word for it.
We're a sad, sick country, who allows a born-again Christian to convince us that we have God's blessing to torture others.
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