Torture by Bush: Bullies, batons & beating s*** smeared prisoners...
As can clearly be seen by the photograph of US uniformed servicemen overseeing the torture, humiliation, and degradation of Iraqi prisoners, these actions, in violation of the Geneva conventions, were without_a_doubt enacted only with ORDERS_FROM_ABOVE.
The TORTURE and DEGRADATION photos indeed conform with what we already know about the widespread dissemination of the "GUANTANAMO METHODS", exported from the US prison facilities at Guantanamo, Cuba, to US prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
TORTURE is now SYNONYMOUS with the US military, because GEORGE W. BUSH WANTS IT THAT WAY.
For more on how the cowardly Mr. Bush ran KANGAROO COURTS for low-level female privates and male non-coms (NCOs, or non-commissioned officers) to convict THEM of "abuse" while Mr. Bush DEMANDS the powers to TORTURE, indefinite incarceration, and even SUMMARY EXECUTION of prisoners, see the site of Sgt. Granger's lawyer, Guy Womack, here.
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006503.html
For Joan Baez's clear and informative compilation of US TORTURE photos and articles, see here.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torture/
Far from being "COMPASSIONATE," civilized, and "moral," much less expressing the higher attributes of a Christ figure or almighty being, Mr. Bush and his reactionary supporters fit into the template or archetype of PRIMATE BULLYING and VIOLENCE at a "low" or animal level.
Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees in Africa's wild Gombe forest taught her that chimpanzees-
<< Frequently tender and compassionate, humanity's closest living relatives are also capable of scheming, deceiving, and waging war. It came as a shock to Jane in 1974 when patrols of chimpanzees from the Kasakela community--one of four groups in the 20-square-mile park--began attacking chimps from the Kahama community to the south. She was stunned by reports of stealthy warriors moving through the forest in single file, hair bristling from fear and excitement, stepping from stone to stone to avoid making noise in what came to be known as the Four Year War.
. By the end of the conflict, the Kahama community--seven males and three adult females and their young--had been annihilated. Researchers witnessed five of the attacks, in which Kasakela chimps tore at their victims' flesh with their teeth as if they were common prey. >>
Apart from the violence inherent in being carnivorous (meat-eating) hunters (which requires chimp troupes to plan in advance to lay an ambush against smaller, prey monkeys or deer), the level of VIOLENCE and TERROR (fear) in a chimp troupe is to a large degree determined by which male dominates the troupe. It turns out that at times a troupe will be led (or dominated) by a "kinder, gentler" (but still dominate) alpha male, but at other times an especially malicious, bullying, ferocious male will dominate the troupe, instilling fear (terror) in all the others. FRODO was exactly such a violent, malicious alpha male. His attacks and bullying were so frequent and brutal, that Jane Goodall stopped studying the troupe to avoid seeing it subjected to so much violence and constant, pervasive terror.... What we humans might call, "EVIL."
For more on Frodo's reign of terror see:
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/goodall.html
For more on how chimpanzee violence, bullying, brutality, warfare, and murder are almost certainly the templates or archetypes for similar behavior in humans (that is, how our primate behavior may account for our own human wars, turf wars, power struggles, and other social behaviors both violent and 'civilized') see:
- PrimateInfanticide.blogspot.com
posted by verifi at 6:14 AM
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