[lit-ideas] Re: Is torture wrong by definition?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:07:49 -0400
Like I heard someone say about importing Moroccan workers into France: we
wanted workers, and we got people.
> [Original Message]
> From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/6/2006 12:30:48 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is torture wrong by definition?
>
> Instead of definitions of torture, look at its consequences.
>
> The US now has several thousand CIA and military persons who have learned
how to torture.
> What happens with those people after Iraq? Where will they go? Back to
work as a manager at
> Pizza Hut?
>
> They're like the military mercenaries: a large pool of men who live in a
world without laws,
> who kill for pay. If they come back to the USA, we'll have people here
who know how to
> torture and run death squads.
>
> What are the consequences of that?
>
> This isn't just speculation.
>
> Back in the 80s, the CIA funded and trained a large group of mercenaries
to fight a guerilla
> war. Those mercenaries fought viciously and they won. The CIA lost
interest and walked away.
> But the mercenaries continued their war. They called themselves The Base.
You know what
> happened next.
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
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