How it’s done
Posted by Thomas Nephew on October 9th, 2005
Well, with simple masking tape or duct tape, you dilate the eyes, and they you use halogen lamps, and a person is placed in a rigid position where they cannot move. Their eyes are opened and the halogen lamps, you know, they’re producing 40,000 watts. It’s intense. And that breaks them down. High-pressure water — I mean, you’ve heard the term ‘drinking from a fire hose.’ I wouldn’t do that. That generally wouldn’t extract what you want, and usually would drown somebody quickly. But you can use high-water pressure into one ear, and when that first ear drum is broken with, you know, 14 or 15 hundred pounds of water pressure going in, the don’t — they will talk before that second ear drum is broken.
…Caller “Mitch”, speaking to Glenn Beck, a nationally syndicated radio show host — and psychopath:
Mitch, I’ve got to tell you I appreciate your service. [...]
I’ve got to tell you, Mitch, it’s — you know, you tell one of these stories, you — I don’t know. If you’re comfortable telling this kind of — it’s not something that when you first meet — say, “Hey, by the way, for 30 years I tortured people.” I mean, it’s kind of an awkward, weird, kind of thing. But I have to tell you, when all is said and done, I’m glad people like you are on our side.
(Transcript via Media Matters, audio clip here) Whether “Mitch” is telling the truth or not, we’ve got the goods on Mr. Beck. Count it as another cost of the past four years that he’s got an audience that keeps tuning in.
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October 9th, 2005 at 10:52 pm
What a nauseating exchange. How degraded can America get? Young men feel free to discuss barbarism on the open airwaves and a radio show host applauds it?
I cannot undertand why Republican-identified Americans aren’t united against the use of torture. It’s not a tax burden, it’s not sex education, it’s not preserved marshlands. Why their silence, their tacit approval?Where are they when the most fundamental human freedom–freedom from physical aggression–is kicked into the gutter by their own, proud military forces?
Copies of that radio exchange should be milk-pasted on the doors of every church, every gas staion, every chamber of commerce and every military recruiting station in America.
October 10th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
I think those who support this kind of stuff are not and never were freedom-oriented in any sense. They support these acts and those who commit them the way some people support “big dog” football or baseball teams with deep pockets — just win, baby.
At bottom, they’re not pro-US; instead, they’re merely pro-oppression of anyone but themselves, and feel safe because of their boosterism and/or skin color and/or political affiliation.
October 11th, 2005 at 7:58 pm
Jesus.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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