“You Will Not Leave This Place Innocent”
You don’t get much bare linkage from this site. I decided a long time ago to keep quiet unless I felt I could bring something new to the blog table. For raw links there’s the klog and for quick asides there’s twitter.
One major exception to the rule is the slow emergence of the facts surrounding the USA’s torture policy, which generally means linking to Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. Its already clear that Sullivan’s next book will be about the USA’s spiralling into a torture nation (even if he doesn’t realise it himself, yet). His latest series of posts note the fact that at least one terror suspect was tortured after his interrogators knew he was innocent.
From a Court Memorandum, detailing the coversation between a US agent and a detainee, Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah, who was detained at Guantanamo in 2002.
There is nothing against you. But there is no innocent person here. So, you should confess to something so you can be charged and sentenced and serve your sentence and then go back to your family and country, because you will not leave this place innocent.
Utter madness.
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
Madness? That’s not the word I would have used, and I don’t think it’s a word that does justice to the victim(s).
It isn’t madness, it’s perfectly sane behaviour for a criminally sadistic, aggressive, racist, megalomaniac group of people. Let’s not imply that this was done out of anything other than unrestrained malice.
October 12th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I agree Claire. I think we easily use the work madness when perhaps we mean inexplicable . But sadly it is explicable as you describe. As a psychiatrist I think I might also object to the word madness as being offensive to some of my patients. Of course we do often confuse badness and madness and there is such a concept as moral insanity which is perhaps the problem here so coming full circle the word madness is the right one!