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Title: We Tortured Some Folks
Published: 2014-08-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq18m-n93-U
Title: We Tortured Some Folks
Published: 2014-08-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq18m-n93-U
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which recorder rooms by any other word puts mantis so Romeo would we not Romeo quarters tame that fear action which he only see without Pat type a rose is a rose is a rose and torture is torture is torture in the immediate aftermath of nine eleven we did some things that were wrong we did a whole lot of things that were right but we tortured some2/20
folks Obama's remarks delivered at a White House press conference on August first have already passed through infamy to become part of the internet lexicon but why he did not tell us anything new did not impart any information that added to our understanding of the sexual assault sleep deprivation mock executions forced medications temperature extremes or waterboarding that the US military and CI a have admittedly deployed on3/20
their captives in the year since nine eleven yeah has apparently misled the U. S. government and the public for years about aspects of a controversial interrogation program concealing details of harsh treatment of detainees this is all according to a report released by the Washington post's that reveals the thoughts of U. S. officials who have already seen a forthcoming Senate intelligence committee report expected to expose the4/20
program according to US officials who remain anonymous the sixty three hundred Steve three hundred excuse me page report includes what they described as disclosures regarding a sprawling network of secret detention facilities or black sites the sights were ultimately dismantled by president but before then prisoners were allegedly subjected to harsh interrogation techniques even when analysts were sure there was no information no more information prisoners could reveal5/20
no we already knew that this is not why Obama's words are so remarkable less than one week after the speech New York times executive editor dean back what came out with a remarkable statement of his own over the past few months read the statement reporters and editors of the times have debated the subject that has come up regularly ever since the world learned of the CIA's6/20
brutal questioning of terrorism suspects whether to call the practices torture when the first revelations emerged a decade ago the situation was murky the details about what the Central Intelligence Agency did in its interrogation rooms were vague the word torture had a specialized legal meaning as well as a plain English one while the method set off a national debate the justice department insisted that the techniques did7/20
not rise to the legal definition of torture the times described what we knew of the program but avoided the label that was still in dispute instead using terms like harsh or brutal interrogation methods the times claims that it's sudden abandonment of the English language over the past decade in favor of torture was concocted phrases like enhanced interrogation methods itself first coined by the Nazi Gestapo in8/20
nineteen thirty seven to describe their own identical torture techniques was necessary to preserve the distinction between common usage of the word torture and it legal definition this is a lie the new standard that the times is using to employ the term incidents in which we know for sure that interrogators inflicted pain on a prisoner in an effort to get information it's almost word for word identical9/20
to the definition under U. S. law specifically eighteen U. S. code twenty three forty and acts committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering the definition was always what the times is now claiming they have discovered it to be but they are now going to call torture torture should not be remarkable I get10/20
these things are remarkable why because words language names have been used to obscure political realities for so long that when facts are simply described in plain language it is nearly unfathomable the phenomenon of doublespeak is nothing new as Orwell wrote in his classic essay politics and the English language in our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible things like the continuance11/20
of British rule in India the Russian purges and deportations the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan can indeed be defended but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties that's political language has to consist largely of euphemism question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness defenseless villages are bombarded from the12/20
air the inhabitants driven out into the countryside the cattle machine gunned the hot set on fire with incendiary bullets this is called pacification millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers in fact historians tell us that this phenomenon occurs almost as far back in13/20
history as we are prepared to look back even to the fifth century BC is there any example in history I mean really ancient history %HESITATION and literature of double speak yes I wrote one eye sight just as a passing example is through cities in the office century BC in the Peloponnesian War during the war there was so I'm very vicious civil war in Athens at that14/20
time and the city's points out that at that time the very language itself became corrupted to their own and %HESITATION acts of cowardice became acts of great bravery out dot traitorous needs towards friends became patriotic acts and he cites the whole list and it's interesting that Thucydides sites this corruption of language is the ultimate in order that occurred during the civil war but in our current15/20
age when virtually every act of the criminal and almost universally reviled political class requires this reality inversion any speaking of the plain truth is a revolutionary act it is sometimes said that words are merely words and that carrying no wait they have no relevance in the real world on the contrary as the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein noted nearly a century ago the limits of my language mean16/20
the limits of my world what is not expressible is not conceivable if the victims of US aggression are always and everywhere described as terrorists and human shields and war criminals let alone kooks were nips or sand niggers then defenders of those populations are at a disadvantage before they even begin their defense their opponents are defending heroes and patriots and freedom fighters so how can they lose17/20
the argument merely putting a word in the form of a derogatory phrase creates in the mind of the listener the impression of something unsavory people who care about the truth are mere true thurs after all tenth amendment supporters are ten thurs those who prepare for the future are preppers want to deny someone who does good things call them a do gooder the language is the great18/20
tool of the tyrants it always has been and always will be patriots are expected to abide by a patriot act that destroys their bill of rights support surgical strikes against enemy combatants by the department of defense and cheer the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to those who wage war our language has been weaponized against us taking our cue from or well then we might observe19/20
that telling the truth is a revolutionary act and calling things by the right name a revolutionary idea yes a rose is a rose is a rose and torture by any other name is still torture down with Big Brother NBI was brought to you by the subscribers of boiling frog postdoc on for more information on this and other topics please go to boiling trucks pose dot com