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I realize that you have moved on to other things, but I feel examples of torture will give further insight as to what true suffering is.
I have studied torture for decades and watched films of it as well as interviewing some who have been tortured, or have seen their families murdered and arrested on mass.
Even I, a dyed in the wool Anglophile was sickened by the scars from beatings and rubber bullets pock marking the body of my friend in the I.R.A. He loved green Life Savers and Guinness.
1. V. I Volgin....Russian Agronomist.....1939I was placed in Cell Number 47. His cell was 35 Meters in area. There were upwards of 50-60 men per cell. The only air came in dribble ts from the cracks in the floor. There was no place to sit nor lay down. Food came in a rusty basin and the stench of rotten groats and cabbage sickened one. It was so crowded that the dead had no room to collapse.
2. V. Shalumov. It took 20 to 30 days to turn a man into a wreck. Work was a 16 hour shift in a mine. There were no days off, systematic starvation and ragged clothes. They slept in a ripped tent in temperatures downwards of 60 below zero. Beatings were the norm and they never ceased.. By the end of the mining season all the prisoners had been killed.
3. The Burma-Siam Rail Way. Instructions to supervisors....."There are some forces who show compassion to workers who need rest. Why should we waste compassion upon a crafty enemy who has killed thousands of our comrades? They should be treated as Cantonese coolies are." (Quote Abridged) The unfortunates chosen to build the rail way were greeted with these words "You are the remnants of a decadent white race and fragments of a rabble army. This rail way will go through even if your bodies become used as sleepers." Brutalized Korean guards (Korea had been seized by Japan in 1910} ruled by the club, fist, and bayonet. Prisoners were placed in groups of 10 or 20, if one escaped the others were instantly shot. Please note the film "The Bridge over the River Kwai" is not accurate.
4. Wansee Conference.....1942. Reinhard {Hang Man} Heydrich. "The Jews in the course of the Final Solution be brought to the east...for use as labor. in big labor gangs, with separation of sexes, the Jews capable of work will be brought to these areas and put to work employed in road building, in which task undoubtedly a great part will fall through diminution" "The remnant that is finally able to survive all this-since this is undoubtedly the part with the strongest resistance -must be treated accordingly, since these people, representing a natural selection, are to be regarded as a germ cell of a new Jewish development" Essentially they were to be worked to death and the rest shot or gassed.
5. Concentration Camps were invented by the English during the Boer War. The purpose was meant to cut into the supply of rebel forces who were humiliating the army. During the Cold War, in America, that idea was morphed into Strategic Hamlets. See Vietnam and Central America. Further examples of extreme torture
1. The rape of Nanking by the Japanese in 1937.
2. The hideous regimes, including cannibalism, of Idi Amin in Uganda and General Jean Bedel Bakossa in the Central African Republic. He declared himself Emperor and the cost of his "Napoleonic" coronation was the G.N.P for an entire year.
3. Caligula, Nero, Ivan the Terrible,[ he had a giant frying pan set up, for he was fascinated by the idea of cooking people. The army would force terrified citizens from their hovels to watch.], 4.Vlad the Impaler, it just never ends........
Have a little compassion for McCain when he came out against torture. only one who experienced it can truly understand.
Many years ago an African friend of mine from Eritrea witnessed, as he hid, his entire family beaten, arrested, and murdered by the Ethiopian Army. He became a guerrilla fighter at the age of 13. His hands so covered in blood and his heart hollowed out.....he was unable to bear the sight of people.My friend Samson's eyes were blinded by tears and demonic memories. He was only able to sleep or eat if he smoked marijuana to drown out the pain. I still do not know why he chose to tell it all to me.
There is a fine line between proper interrogation and torture. It s all in the mind. Some Americans get so hysterical from propaganda that they feel they are living in a Stalinist mode of operation...."Arrest...Try...Shoot".
Politicians and the media are again corrupting words for petty careerist and ideological ends. in conclusion...a member of the Japanese Secret Service Organ in Manchuria gave this definition of torture during the mid 30's. "When you fish...do you feel compassion for fish? Prisoners are like fish." This was told to an expatriate Blackshirt [Italy} whose family was kidnapped and he was forced into intelligence work. What he witnessed was so sickening he fled Manchuria. His family, unbeknownst to him, had been murdered..
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I had never heard of her until American Idol. 
His San Clemente home, La Casa Pacifica
La Casa Pacifica is a mansion located on the beaches of San Clemente, California, 
overlooking the Pacific Ocean. 
The home is known as President Richard Nixon's Western White House, used while working away from the official presidential residence, the White House.
.Short bio on President Nixon below the fold. 
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