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Since 1985, APA has issued numerous policies condemning torture, which have been reaffirmed and refined over the years. APA’s policies draw upon international human rights instruments and have expressly adopted the definitions of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the [[w:U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment|U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment]]. APA’s policy prohibits psychologists from participating in national security interrogations at detention settings operating in violation of the U.S. Constitution or international law. Jessen was never a member of APA. Mitchell resigned his APA membership in 2006. ~ [[w:American Psychological Association|American Psychological Association]]]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>[[File:A_Clockwork_Orange_-_the_treatment.jpg|thumb|[[w:American Psychological Association|APA]] has a long history of prohibiting torture. Since 1985, APA has issued numerous policies condemning torture, which have been reaffirmed and refined over the years. APA’s policies draw upon international human rights instruments and have expressly adopted the definitions of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the [[w:U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment|U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment]]. APA’s policy prohibits psychologists from participating in national security interrogations at detention settings operating in violation of the U.S. Constitution or international law. Jessen was never a member of APA. Mitchell resigned his APA membership in 2006. ~ [[w:American Psychological Association|American Psychological Association]]]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:11th century unknown painters - Sts Savinus and Cyprian are tortured - WGA19709.jpg|thumb|right|Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of [[love]], or [[friendship]], or [[joy]] of living, or [[laughter]], or [[curiosity]], or [[courage]], or [[integrity]]. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. ~ [[George Orwell]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>[[File:11th century unknown painters - Sts Savinus and Cyprian are tortured - WGA19709.jpg|thumb|right|Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of [[love]], or [[friendship]], or [[joy]] of living, or [[laughter]], or [[curiosity]], or [[courage]], or [[integrity]]. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. ~ [[George Orwell]]]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>[[File:Restraint_chair_used_for_enteral_feeding_-b.jpg|thumb|I was kept awake for many days straight. I was forced to remain in painful positions for hours at a time. These are things I do not want to write about; I want only to [[forget]]. ~ [[w:Lakhdar Boumediene|Lakhdar Boumediene]]]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:У здания Харьковской ЧК.jpg|thumb| At Odessa, the Cheka tied White officers to planks and slowly fed them into furnaces or tanks of boiling water; in Kharkiv, scalpings and hand-flayings were commonplace: the skin was peeled off victims’ hands to produce ‘gloves’; the Voronezh Cheka rolled naked people around in barrels studded internally with nails; victims were crucified or stoned to death at Dnipropetrovsk; the Cheka at Kremenchuk impaled members of the clergy and buried alive rebelling peasants; in Orel, water was poured on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues; in Kiev, Chinese Cheka detachments placed rats in iron tubes sealed at one end with wire netting and the other placed against the body of a prisoner, with the tubes being heated until the rats gnawed through the victim’s body in an effort to escape. ~ George Leggett]]</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Forcefeeding.jpg|thumb|The [[w:American Medical Association|American Medical Association]] and the [[w:Red Cross|Red Cross]] both condemn [[w:force-feeding|force-feeding]] as a form of [[torture]]. And yet, the U.S. government and the United Nations have both force-fed hunger-striking prisoners. The real problem? Most people probably don’t realize how complicated force-feeding is, and how much can go wrong. ~ Esther Inglis-Arkell]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>[[File:Forcefeeding.jpg|thumb|The [[w:American Medical Association|American Medical Association]] and the [[w:Red Cross|Red Cross]] both condemn [[w:force-feeding|force-feeding]] as a form of [[torture]]. And yet, the U.S. government and the United Nations have both force-fed hunger-striking prisoners. The real problem? Most people probably don’t realize how complicated force-feeding is, and how much can go wrong. ~ Esther Inglis-Arkell]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Picard.jpg|thumb|200px|Particularly where it is associated with the more prosperous countries, or those that see themselves as bringers of civilization, torture may wear a humane, almost kindly face. It goes under euphemisms such as 'pressure', 'shock', 'stress' and 'duress'; and the perpetrators themselves will see a distinction between what they do and what they consider to be torture. However, this is as vicious a form of torture as any: it can leave people mentally and physically disabled—indeed, the practitioners acknowledge the potential to render people psychotic, in hours or days. ~ Athar Yawar]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>[[File:Picard.jpg|thumb|200px|Particularly where it is associated with the more prosperous countries, or those that see themselves as bringers of civilization, torture may wear a humane, almost kindly face. It goes under euphemisms such as 'pressure', 'shock', 'stress' and 'duress'; and the perpetrators themselves will see a distinction between what they do and what they consider to be torture. However, this is as vicious a form of torture as any: it can leave people mentally and physically disabled—indeed, the practitioners acknowledge the potential to render people psychotic, in hours or days. ~ Athar Yawar]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 35:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 35:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* I want to make sure that if my government ever does this horrible, terrible, extraordinary thing, that somebody takes responsibility for it and that it be out there in the open and subject to accountability. … Though I understand the danger of legitimating something that should not be legitimated, on balance in a democracy, I prefer accountability.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* I want to make sure that if my government ever does this horrible, terrible, extraordinary thing, that somebody takes responsibility for it and that it be out there in the open and subject to accountability. … Though I understand the danger of legitimating something that should not be legitimated, on balance in a democracy, I prefer accountability.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>** [[Alan Dershowitz]], Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at [[w:Harvard Law School|Harvard Law School]], debating [[w:David D. Cole|David D. Cole]] [http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/10.04/13-hls.html Pre-emption: Preventive, coercive, or both?] (2007).</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>** [[Alan Dershowitz]], Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at [[w:Harvard Law School|Harvard Law School]], debating [[w:David D. Cole|David D. Cole]] [http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/10.04/13-hls.html Pre-emption: Preventive, coercive, or both?] (2007).</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><br /></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>* At Odessa, the Cheka tied White officers to planks and slowly fed them into furnaces or tanks of boiling water; in Kharkiv, scalpings and hand-flayings were commonplace: the skin was peeled off victims’ hands to produce ‘gloves’; the Voronezh Cheka rolled naked people around in barrels studded internally with nails; victims were crucified or stoned to death at Dnipropetrovsk; the Cheka at Kremenchuk impaled members of the clergy and buried alive rebelling peasants; in Orel, water was poured on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues; in Kiev, Chinese Cheka detachments placed rats in iron tubes sealed at one end with wire netting and the other placed against the body of a prisoner, with the tubes being heated until the rats gnawed through the victim’s body in an effort to escape.</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>** George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police, pp 197-198</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><br /></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name don't torture me!" For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you impure spirit!" 9Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." </div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name don't torture me!" For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you impure spirit!" 9Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." </div></td> </tr> </table><hr class='diff-hr' id='mw-oldid' /> <h2 class='diff-currentversion-title'>Revision as of 15:48, 19 October 2020</h2> <div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_Clockwork_Orange_-_the_treatment.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/A_Clockwork_Orange_-_the_treatment.jpg/220px-A_Clockwork_Orange_-_the_treatment.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/A_Clockwork_Orange_-_the_treatment.jpg/330px-A_Clockwork_Orange_-_the_treatment.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/A_Clockwork_Orange_-_the_treatment.jpg/440px-A_Clockwork_Orange_-_the_treatment.jpg 2x" data-file-width="467" data-file-height="700" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychological_Association" class="extiw" title="w:American Psychological Association">APA</a> has a long history of prohibiting torture. Since 1985, APA has issued numerous policies condemning torture, which have been reaffirmed and refined over the years. APA’s policies draw upon international human rights instruments and have expressly adopted the definitions of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.N._Convention_against_Torture_and_Other_Cruel,_Inhuman,_or_Degrading_Treatment_or_Punishment" class="extiw" title="w:U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment">U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment</a>. APA’s policy prohibits psychologists from participating in national security interrogations at detention settings operating in violation of the U.S. Constitution or international law. Jessen was never a member of APA. Mitchell resigned his APA membership in 2006. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychological_Association" class="extiw" title="w:American Psychological Association">American Psychological Association</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:11th_century_unknown_painters_-_Sts_Savinus_and_Cyprian_are_tortured_-_WGA19709.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/11th_century_unknown_painters_-_Sts_Savinus_and_Cyprian_are_tortured_-_WGA19709.jpg/220px-11th_century_unknown_painters_-_Sts_Savinus_and_Cyprian_are_tortured_-_WGA19709.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/11th_century_unknown_painters_-_Sts_Savinus_and_Cyprian_are_tortured_-_WGA19709.jpg/330px-11th_century_unknown_painters_-_Sts_Savinus_and_Cyprian_are_tortured_-_WGA19709.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/11th_century_unknown_painters_-_Sts_Savinus_and_Cyprian_are_tortured_-_WGA19709.jpg/440px-11th_century_unknown_painters_-_Sts_Savinus_and_Cyprian_are_tortured_-_WGA19709.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1150" data-file-height="770" /></a><figcaption>Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Friendship" title="Friendship">friendship</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> of living, or <a href="/wiki/Laughter" title="Laughter">laughter</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Curiosity" title="Curiosity">curiosity</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Integrity" title="Integrity">integrity</a>. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Restraint_chair_used_for_enteral_feeding_-b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Restraint_chair_used_for_enteral_feeding_-b.jpg/220px-Restraint_chair_used_for_enteral_feeding_-b.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Restraint_chair_used_for_enteral_feeding_-b.jpg/330px-Restraint_chair_used_for_enteral_feeding_-b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Restraint_chair_used_for_enteral_feeding_-b.jpg/440px-Restraint_chair_used_for_enteral_feeding_-b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1062" data-file-height="776" /></a><figcaption>I was kept awake for many days straight. I was forced to remain in painful positions for hours at a time. These are things I do not want to write about; I want only to <a href="/wiki/Forget" class="mw-redirect" title="Forget">forget</a>. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakhdar_Boumediene" class="extiw" title="w:Lakhdar Boumediene">Lakhdar Boumediene</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Forcefeeding.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Forcefeeding.jpg/220px-Forcefeeding.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Forcefeeding.jpg/330px-Forcefeeding.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Forcefeeding.jpg/440px-Forcefeeding.jpg 2x" data-file-width="544" data-file-height="792" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association" class="extiw" title="w:American Medical Association">American Medical Association</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cross" class="extiw" title="w:Red Cross">Red Cross</a> both condemn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/force-feeding" class="extiw" title="w:force-feeding">force-feeding</a> as a form of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">torture</a>. And yet, the U.S. government and the United Nations have both force-fed hunger-striking prisoners. The real problem? Most people probably don’t realize how complicated force-feeding is, and how much can go wrong. ~ Esther Inglis-Arkell</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Picard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Picard.jpg/200px-Picard.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Picard.jpg/300px-Picard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Picard.jpg/400px-Picard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="689" data-file-height="516" /></a><figcaption>Particularly where it is associated with the more prosperous countries, or those that see themselves as bringers of civilization, torture may wear a humane, almost kindly face. It goes under euphemisms such as 'pressure', 'shock', 'stress' and 'duress'; and the perpetrators themselves will see a distinction between what they do and what they consider to be torture. However, this is as vicious a form of torture as any: it can leave people mentally and physically disabled—indeed, the practitioners acknowledge the potential to render people psychotic, in hours or days. ~ Athar Yawar</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_inside_of_a_jail_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition,_with_a_prie_Wellcome_V0041650.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/The_inside_of_a_jail_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition%2C_with_a_prie_Wellcome_V0041650.jpg/200px-The_inside_of_a_jail_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition%2C_with_a_prie_Wellcome_V0041650.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/The_inside_of_a_jail_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition%2C_with_a_prie_Wellcome_V0041650.jpg/300px-The_inside_of_a_jail_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition%2C_with_a_prie_Wellcome_V0041650.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/The_inside_of_a_jail_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition%2C_with_a_prie_Wellcome_V0041650.jpg/400px-The_inside_of_a_jail_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition%2C_with_a_prie_Wellcome_V0041650.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3071" data-file-height="2280" /></a><figcaption>The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate <a href="/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political">political</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy. ~ <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan" title="Andrew Sullivan">Andrew Sullivan</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture" class="extiw" title="w:Torture">Torture</a></b> is any act by which severe <a href="/wiki/Pain" title="Pain">pain</a>, whether <a href="/wiki/Physical" class="mw-redirect" title="Physical">physical</a> or <a href="/wiki/Psychological" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychological">psychological</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Intentionally" class="mw-redirect" title="Intentionally">intentionally</a> inflicted on a <a href="/wiki/Person" class="mw-redirect" title="Person">person</a> as a means of <a href="/wiki/Intimidation" title="Intimidation">intimidation</a>, a deterrent, <a href="/wiki/Revenge" title="Revenge">revenge</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Punishment" title="Punishment">punishment</a>, or as a method for the extraction of <a href="/wiki/Information" title="Information">information</a> or <a href="/wiki/Confessions" class="mw-redirect" title="Confessions">confessions</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2></div> <ul><li>Torture, encouraged from above, became a fact of life <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_post-invasion_Iraq" class="extiw" title="w:Human rights in post-invasion Iraq">[in occupied Iraq]</a>. Perhaps some good <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">liberal</a> apologist for Blair will soon explain how democratic torture is much nicer than authoritarian torture. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tariq_Ali" title="Tariq Ali">Tariq Ali</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1445964,00.html">For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem </a></i> (March 26, 2005), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychological_Association" class="extiw" title="w:American Psychological Association">APA</a> has a long history of prohibiting torture. Since 1985, APA has issued numerous policies condemning torture, which have been reaffirmed and refined over the years. APA’s policies draw upon international human rights instruments and have expressly adopted the definitions of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.N._Convention_against_Torture_and_Other_Cruel,_Inhuman,_or_Degrading_Treatment_or_Punishment" class="extiw" title="w:U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment">U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment</a>. APA’s policy prohibits psychologists from participating in national security interrogations at detention settings operating in violation of the U.S. Constitution or international law. Jessen was never a member of APA. Mitchell resigned his APA membership in 2006. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychological_Association" class="extiw" title="w:American Psychological Association">American Psychological Association</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/08/torture-settlement.aspx">"APA Reaction to Settlement of Torture Case Against Psychologists"</a>, (August 17, 2017).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The American Medical Association and the Red Cross both condemn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/force-feeding" class="extiw" title="w:force-feeding">force-feeding</a> as a form of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">torture</a>. And yet, the U.S. government and the United Nations have both force-fed hunger-striking prisoners. The real problem? Most people probably don’t realize how complicated force-feeding is, and how much can go wrong. <ul><li>Esther Inglis-Arkell, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-really-happens-when-you-force-feed-someone-1699078018">"Here's What Really Happens When You Force-Feed Someone"</a>, <i>IO9</i>, (4/21/15).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If I were not an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>, I would believe in a <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their <a href="/wiki/Lives" class="mw-redirect" title="Lives">lives</a> and not the pattern of their <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>.</b> I think he would prefer an <a href="/wiki/Honest" class="mw-redirect" title="Honest">honest</a> and <a href="/wiki/Righteous" class="mw-redirect" title="Righteous">righteous</a> atheist to a <a href="/wiki/TV" class="mw-redirect" title="TV">TV</a> <a href="/wiki/Preacher" title="Preacher">preacher</a> whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. <br /> I would also want a God who would not allow a <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a>. <b>Infinite torture can only be a punishment for <a href="/wiki/Infinite" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite">infinite</a> <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>, and I don't believe that infinite evil can be said to exist even in the case of <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a>.</b> Besides, if most <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Governments" class="mw-redirect" title="Governments">governments</a> are civilized enough to try to eliminate torture and outlaw cruel and unusual punishments, can we expect anything less of an all-<a href="/wiki/Merciful" class="mw-redirect" title="Merciful">merciful</a> God? <br /> I feel that if there were an afterlife, <a href="/wiki/Punishment" title="Punishment">punishment</a> for evil would be reasonable and of a fixed term. And <b>I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>, <i>Asimov: A Memoir</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1911).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I was kept awake for many days straight. I was forced to remain in painful positions for hours at a time. These are things I do not want to write about; I want only to <a href="/wiki/Forget" class="mw-redirect" title="Forget">forget</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakhdar_Boumediene" class="extiw" title="w:Lakhdar Boumediene">Lakhdar Boumediene</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay" class="extiw" title="w:Guantanamo Bay">Guantanamo Bay</a> Detainee <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/18/the-dark-ages">NewYorker "The Dark Ages"</a>, (2013/03/18).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a>, at the Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948); reported in <i>Resistance, Rebellion and Death</i> (translation by Justin O'Brien, 1961), p. 73.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Question</b>: <a href="/wiki/Films" class="mw-redirect" title="Films">Films</a> like <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Games_(film)" class="extiw" title="w:Funny Games (film)">Funny Games (2007 films)</a></i> have a strong streak of sadism in them, with psychological as well as physical torture. For me, it’s one of quite a few ‘blow your brains out’ movies of the last eighteen months [Carpenter laughs]. Are we trying to rationalise and digest events in the middle-east?</li></ul> <dl><dd><b>John Carpenter</b>: Yeah, that’s partially it. All the torture movies…well, you know where that came from. That’s not a mystery - look at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib" class="extiw" title="w:Abu Ghraib">Abu Ghraib</a> photos. ‘Oh yeah? Well we’ll get even with you’…Of course, it’s a big deal, it’s a part of our government now, torture. Please! So if they’re gonna do it, we can show it. It just became that. <b>The <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> is grim; all war is grim.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Carpenter" title="John Carpenter">John Carpenter</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="HTTP://WWW.DENOFGEEK.COM/US/MOVIES/HALLOWEEN/13379/THE-DEN-OF-GEEK-INTERVIEW-JOHN-CARPENTER">"The Den of Geek interview: John Carpenter"</a>, <i>Den of Geek</i> (June 3, 2018).</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>I want to make sure that if my government ever does this horrible, terrible, extraordinary thing, that somebody takes responsibility for it and that it be out there in the open and subject to accountability. … Though I understand the danger of legitimating something that should not be legitimated, on balance in a democracy, I prefer accountability. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz" title="Alan Dershowitz">Alan Dershowitz</a>, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" class="extiw" title="w:Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a>, debating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Cole" class="extiw" title="w:David D. Cole">David D. Cole</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/10.04/13-hls.html">Pre-emption: Preventive, coercive, or both?</a> (2007).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name don't torture me!" For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you impure spirit!" 9Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Mark</a> 5:5-9</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are one or two rules of thumb which are useful in distinguishing sadism from exciting adventure in the comics. Threat of torture is harmless, but when the torture it’s self is shown it becomes sadism. When a lovely heroine is show bound to the stake, comics followers are sure that the rescue will arrive just in the nick of time. The readers wish is to see save the girl, not to see her suffer. A bound or chained person does not suffer even embarrassment in the comics, and the reader, therefore is not being taught to enjoy suffering. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston" title="William Moulton Marston">William Moulton Marston</a> as quoted in Olive Richard Bryne's, "Don't laugh at the comics", <i>Family Circle</i>, (Oct 25, 1940).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We will not torture... We will not torture people... It doesn't work, my friends. It doesn't work. If you inflict enough pain on somebody long enough, they're going to tell you whatever they think you want to hear to have it stopped... There are accomplished interrogators who can gain the confidence of the suspect and gain all the information that they could possibly want. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a>, regarding U.S. president-elect <a href="/wiki/Donald_J._Trump" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald J. Trump">Donald J. Trump</a>'s intention to reintroduce the usage of torture by U.S. authorities, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10154266695396939/">"John McCain attacks Donald Trump's torture stance"</a> (21 November 2016), <i>Channel 4 News</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Stripped of its bizarre excesses, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron" class="extiw" title="w:Donald Ewen Cameron">Cameron</a>'s experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a>'s two-stage psychological torture method. <ul><li>Alfred W. McCoy, as quoted by Klein, N., "The Shock Doctrine", p. 41, Metropolitan Books, New York, (2007)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Yeahhh, torture, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherfucker" class="extiw" title="w:Motherfucker">motherfucker</a>, <a href="/wiki/What" title="What">what</a>? <br /> Torture, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigga" class="extiw" title="w:Nigga">nigga</a>, what? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_Man" class="extiw" title="w:Method Man">Method Man</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Tang_Clan" class="extiw" title="w:Wu Tang Clan">Wu Tang Clan</a>”, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_Man_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:Method Man (song)">Method Man</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-side" class="extiw" title="w:B-side">B-side</a> to the single "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_Ya_Neck" class="extiw" title="w:Protect Ya Neck">Protect Ya Neck</a>", (May 3, 1993); featured on the album <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Wu-Tang_(36_Chambers)" class="extiw" title="w:Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)">Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)</a></i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Look, torture works on 24 and in movies because it has to. It’s a dramatic device to move the plot along, but ask terror experts and they’ll tell you it’s one of those movie tropes that’s got no basis in real life. Like a wedding being interrupted, or someone this handsome [Brad Pitt] feeling sad, or this character [Emma Stone in Aloha] being part-Asian. It works because it just says it does and we’re supposed to take it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Oliver" title="John Oliver">John Oliver</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/15/john-oliver-and-helen-mirren-take-the-u-s-and-24-s-jack-bauer-to-task-over-torture.html">"John Oliver and Helen Mirren Take the U.S. and ‘24’s’ Jack Bauer to Task Over Torture"</a>, <i>Last Week Tonight</i>, (06-15-15).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Friendship" title="Friendship">friendship</a>, or joy of living, or <a href="/wiki/Laughter" title="Laughter">laughter</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Curiosity" title="Curiosity">curiosity</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Integrity" title="Integrity">integrity</a>. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, Winston Smith's torturer in <i><a href="/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" title="Nineteen Eighty-Four">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a></i> (1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" title="Nineteen Eighty-Four">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a></i> (1949), Part III, Chapter V.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are relieved that James Mitchell and John ‘Bruce’ Jessen abandoned their ill-advised effort to fight the lawsuit alleging that they were responsible for harming three men who were imprisoned and tortured in a secret CIA <a href="/wiki/Prison" title="Prison">prison</a>. However, this settlement in no way absolves them of <a href="/wiki/Responsibility" title="Responsibility">responsibility</a> for violating the <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a> of their profession and leaving a stain on the discipline of <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a>. We hope that the settling of this case gives some solace to the three plaintiffs and others who endured similar treatment. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_E._Puente" class="extiw" title="w:Antonio E. Puente">Antonio E. Puente</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/08/torture-settlement.aspx">"APA Reaction to Settlement of Torture Case Against Psychologists"</a> <i>American Psychological Association</i>, (August 17, 2017)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Porto Ricans (sic) are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever to inhabit this sphere… I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more… All physicians take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Rhoads" class="extiw" title="w:Cornelius Rhoads">Cornelius Rhoads</a> as quoted by Truman R. Clark. <i>Puerto Rico and the United States</i>, 1917-1933, (1975), pp. 151-154.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I mentioned to one of the gaolers my sense of this hardship, as an obstinate guilty person might deny the truth, whilst an innocent one, less courageous, might very readily, to relieve himself from such a state of misery, make a false confession. His answer was laconic: <i>"Lago confess"</i> … "They soon confess." <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sampson_(attorney)" class="extiw" title="w:William Sampson (attorney)">William Sampson</a>, writing of his experience under torture, quoting an inquisitor on its futility as a means of obtaining information <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rewinn.com/8017.html">Memoirs of William Sampson, 2nd Edition</a></i> (1817), Letter XVII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Jean-Paul Sartre</a>, "A Victory" (1958).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Antonin Scalia</a> citing the television program <a href="/wiki/24_(TV_series)" title="24 (TV series)">24</a> to support torture. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/15/john-oliver-and-helen-mirren-take-the-u-s-and-24-s-jack-bauer-to-task-over-torture.html">"John Oliver and Helen Mirren Take the U.S. and ‘24’s’ Jack Bauer to Task Over Torture"</a>, <i>Last Week Tonight</i>, (06-15-15).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate <a href="/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political">political</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan" title="Andrew Sullivan">Andrew Sullivan</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/imaginationland.html">"Imaginationland"</a>, <i>The Daily Dish The Atlantic</i> (2007-10-25).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On <a href="/wiki/9/11" class="mw-redirect" title="9/11">9/11</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Cheney</a> immediately thought of the worst possible scenario: What if this had been done with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMD" class="extiw" title="w:WMD">WMDs</a>? It has haunted him ever since - for good and even noble reasons. This <a href="/wiki/Panic" title="Panic">panic</a> led him immediately to think of <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam</a>. But it also led him to realize that our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intelligence" class="extiw" title="w:Military intelligence">intelligence</a> was so crappy that we simply didn't know what might be coming. That's why the decision to use torture was the first - and most significant - <a href="/wiki/Decision" class="mw-redirect" title="Decision">decision</a> this administration made. It is integral to the intelligence behind the <a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror">war on terror</a>. And Cheney's bizarre view of executive power made it easy in his mind simply to break the <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> and withdraw from Geneva because torture, in his mind, was the only <a href="/wiki/Weapon" title="Weapon">weapon</a> we had. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan" title="Andrew Sullivan">Andrew Sullivan</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/imaginationland.html">"Imaginationland"</a>, <i>The Daily Dish The Atlantic</i> (2007-10-25).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But torture gives false information. And the worst scenarios that tortured detainees coughed up - many of them completely innocent, remember - may well have come to fuel US national security policy. And of course they also fueled more torture. Because once you hear of the existential plots confessed by one tortured prisoner, you need to torture more prisoners to get at the real truth. We do not know what actual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intelligence" class="extiw" title="w:Military intelligence">intelligence</a> they were getting, and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Cheney</a> has ensured that we will never know. But it is perfectly conceivable that the torture regime - combined with <a href="/wiki/Panic" title="Panic">panic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paranoia" title="Paranoia">paranoia</a> - created an imaginationland of un<a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> and half-truth that has guided US policy for this entire war. It may well have led to the president being informed of any number of plots that never existed, and any number of threats that are pure imagination. And once torture has entered the system, you can never find out the real truth. You are lost in a vortex of <a href="/wiki/Lies" class="mw-redirect" title="Lies">lies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fears" class="mw-redirect" title="Fears">fears</a>. In this vortex, the actual <a href="/wiki/Threats" class="mw-redirect" title="Threats">threats</a> that we face may well be overlooked or ignored, as we chase false leads and pursue non-existent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Mass_Destruction" class="extiw" title="w:Weapons of Mass Destruction">WMDs</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan" title="Andrew Sullivan">Andrew Sullivan</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/imaginationland.html">"Imaginationland"</a>, <i>The Daily Dish The Atlantic</i> (2007-10-25).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Particularly where it is associated with the more prosperous countries, or those that see themselves as bringers of civilization, torture may wear a humane, almost kindly face. It goes under euphemisms such as 'pressure', 'shock', 'stress' and 'duress'; and the perpetrators themselves will see a distinction between what they do and what they consider to be torture. However, this is as vicious a form of torture as any: it can leave people mentally and physically disabled—indeed, the practitioners acknowledge the potential to render people psychotic, in hours or days. <br /> The victim is typically subjected to physical punishments that do not leave obvious scars, and this means that, should the case ever come under legal scrutiny, physical evidence of torture may be lacking. However, many ways of causing extreme pain remain possible. The subject will be tightly handcuffed and restrained, often in a way that damages nerves and muscles; he may be suspended in painful postures, or forced to assume them himself, with damage to muscles and joints; he may be subjected to electric shocks. Typically, he will be kept in a <a href="/wiki/Small" title="Small">small</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dark" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark">dark</a>, bedless cell, with inadequate <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a> and variable <a href="/wiki/Toilet" title="Toilet">toilet</a> facilities, so that his own <a href="/w/index.php?title=Filth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Filth (page does not exist)">filth</a> stains the floor and dampens his <a href="/wiki/Clothes" class="mw-redirect" title="Clothes">clothes</a>. He may be exposed to <a href="/wiki/Extreme" class="mw-redirect" title="Extreme">extreme</a> <a href="/wiki/Heat" class="mw-redirect" title="Heat">heat</a> or <a href="/wiki/Cold" title="Cold">cold</a>, and perhaps forced to stare at the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a>. Beatings with rifle butts and kicking with military boots can cause lasting damage; lashing on the soles of the feet can make walking painful for years. A <a href="/wiki/Doctor" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor">doctor</a> may well be present, persuading the <a href="/wiki/Prisoner" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoner">prisoner</a> that he is in the <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a> and that all he must do is recant. The doctor may even provide medication—as a symbol of civilization, or to keep the patient alive (deaths in custody can be inconvenient), or to cause <a href="/wiki/Pain" title="Pain">pain</a> or <a href="/wiki/Disability" title="Disability">disability</a>. <ul><li>Athar Yawar, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079554/">"Healing in survivors of torture"</a>, <i>J R Soc Med.</i> 2004 Aug; 97(8): 366–370.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How can people do this to one another? In society, few people are actively <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sadistic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sadistic (page does not exist)">sadistic</a> or <a href="/w/index.php?title=Psychopathic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Psychopathic (page does not exist)">psychopathic</a>. To impose one's <a href="/wiki/Will" class="mw-disambig" title="Will">will</a> on another, particularly with <a href="/wiki/Brutality" class="mw-redirect" title="Brutality">brutality</a>, is possible only if one views oneself as <a href="/wiki/Wiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiser">wiser</a> or more <a href="/wiki/Valuable" class="mw-redirect" title="Valuable">valuable</a>; and this notion is fostered by creeds that exalt certain groups and denigrate others. People torture in the name of <a href="/wiki/Ideals" class="mw-redirect" title="Ideals">ideals</a> that, in their <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>, would be held to be unassailable—<a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>. What counts is the label, not the reality of these doctrines. Milgram demonstrated the power of labels when, in his experiment, men in white coats persuaded volunteers to deliver what they thought were lethal electric shocks to screaming individuals (who were acting the part). The quiet priestly authority of 'progress' outweighed the volunteers' own consciences. <ul><li>Athar Yawar, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079554/">"Healing in survivors of torture"</a>, <i>J R Soc Med.</i> 2004 Aug; 97(8): 366–370.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Human beings, regrettably, are easily conditioned to the notion that other sorts of people are different, inferior, intrinsically dangerous. <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">Education</a> is no protection against such conditioning—indeed, the leaders and propagators of <a href="/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political">political</a> <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> are commonly from among the well educated. But an intrinsic <a href="/wiki/Feeling" class="mw-redirect" title="Feeling">feeling</a> of <a href="/wiki/Superiority" class="mw-redirect" title="Superiority">superiority</a>, or necessity, is not enough: the torturer must be placed in an appropriate role. Zimbardo demonstrated the importance of this when he placed students in a mock jail, some as prisoners, others as guards. Within a few days the experiment had to be stopped, such was the treatment meted out to the prisoners by the guards. The torturer may see himself as a <a href="/wiki/Defender" class="mw-redirect" title="Defender">defender</a> of <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a>, when all the while his conduct is dominated by brutality and corruption. In areas where torture is well established, people are swept up off the streets on a <a href="/wiki/Suspicion" title="Suspicion">suspicion</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Word">word</a>; <a href="/wiki/Bribery" title="Bribery">bribery</a> secures release, and maladministration results in detention or even execution of the <a href="/wiki/Innocent" class="mw-redirect" title="Innocent">innocent</a>. <ul><li>Athar Yawar, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079554/">"Healing in survivors of torture"</a>, <i>J R Soc Med.</i> 2004 Aug; 97(8): 366–370.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>’s ruling <a href="/wiki/Justice_and_Development_Party_(Turkey)" title="Justice and Development Party (Turkey)">Justice and Development Party</a> (AKP) came to power 18 years ago pledging "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zero_tolerance" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:zero tolerance">zero tolerance</a>" for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_in_Turkey" class="extiw" title="w:Torture in Turkey">torture</a>. For a while, it seemed sincere. [...] Such hopes now lie in tatters. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amberin_Zaman" title="Amberin Zaman">Amberin Zaman</a> on torture during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%93present_purges_in_Turkey" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:2016–present purges in Turkey">2016–present purges in Turkey</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/07/torture-turkey-rise-erdogan-republic-fear.html">Torture on the rise in Erdogan’s Turkey</a></i> (July 31, 2020), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Monitor" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Al-Monitor">Al-Monitor</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;"> <div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wikipedia"><img alt="Wikipedia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/50px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/75px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/100px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a><figcaption>Wikipedia</figcaption></figure></div> <div style="margin-left: 60px;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article about: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Torture">Torture</a></b></i></div> </div> </div> <div class="noprint metadata" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;"> <div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiktionary-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wiktionary"><img alt="Wiktionary" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/50px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/75px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/100px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="370" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>Wiktionary</figcaption></figure></div> <div style="margin-left: 60px;">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/torture" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:torture">torture</a></b></i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary" class="extiw" title="w:Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>, the free dictionary</div> </div></div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Torture&oldid=2880823">https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Torture&oldid=2880823</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Crime" title="Category:Crime">Crime</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Psychology" title="Category:Psychology">Psychology</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Vices" title="Category:Vices">Vices</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 19 October 2020, at 15:48.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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