Bradley in DC
12-05-2007, 03:15 AM
http://www.techcentralstation.com/
Torture and the Nation
...Americans would do themselves a service to take note. For in Argentina, torture devastated not only thousands of individual lives but society as a whole. Twenty-four years after the restoration of democracy, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo—mothers of the disappeared, tortured and killed—still protest every Thursday afternoon demanding the truth about their children. The torturers, for their part, remain haunted by the barbaric acts they committed; they feel betrayed by the nation in whose service they made their careers. Even daily vocabulary has been scarred: words as innocuous as 'a grill' or 'to move' among many others are tattooed in Argentineans' minds as euphemisms for torture devices or murder, as Marguerite Feitlowitz demonstrated in her A Lexicon of Terror...
The Logic of Torture
During the past few years, in the wake of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, much has been written about torture, almost none of it, regrettably, philosophically edifying. May I help? ...
Torture and the Nation
...Americans would do themselves a service to take note. For in Argentina, torture devastated not only thousands of individual lives but society as a whole. Twenty-four years after the restoration of democracy, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo—mothers of the disappeared, tortured and killed—still protest every Thursday afternoon demanding the truth about their children. The torturers, for their part, remain haunted by the barbaric acts they committed; they feel betrayed by the nation in whose service they made their careers. Even daily vocabulary has been scarred: words as innocuous as 'a grill' or 'to move' among many others are tattooed in Argentineans' minds as euphemisms for torture devices or murder, as Marguerite Feitlowitz demonstrated in her A Lexicon of Terror...
The Logic of Torture
During the past few years, in the wake of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, much has been written about torture, almost none of it, regrettably, philosophically edifying. May I help? ...