Torture

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Confronting Torture

There are some people who have a sexual fetish about torture, deriving some kind of thrill about being dominated and forced to obey through suffering. For the people who endure real torture, there is no such pleasure.

This Squidoo lens is about no fetish. Rather, it is dedicated to confronting torture wherever it exists, seeking to abolish the practice, especially when it is exercised by governments.

The confrontation of torture leads us to disturbing places... such as looking at ourselves in the mirror. Those of us who live in countries that we think of as free, such as the United States, are increasingly mired in new regimes of torture, executed, ironically, in the name of a war on terror.

Angry Banana Reveals Bush Torture Was Done For Politics, Not Security

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News About Torture

Independent news stories about issues of torture

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Nancy Pelosi Lied About Torture

Nancy Pelosi knew what Bush was doing and chose not to resist

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Bumper Stickers Against Torture

Take a stand against torture by putting an antitorture sticker on your car

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Books About Torture

These books detail the history and practice of torture and its effect on American society

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Torture, McCain, Obama and Michael Mukasey

How does the Mukasey Confirmation Vote Inform the 2008 Election?

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Confronting the Military Commissions Act

Original articles about the Military Commissions Act, a pro-torture law from 2006

The Military Commissions Act ought to be infamous all across America, but it isn't. Many Americans have a vague knowledge that the right of habeas corpus was revoked in 2006, but few are aware that the same law that legalized arbitrary imprisonment, kangaroo courts, and legal amnesty for American war criminals also legalized the use of torture by agents of the American government. In order to effectively oppose torture, one must oppose the Military Commissions Act. The following articles from Irregular Times report on the effort to overturn the Military Commissions Act.
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Giant Orange Talks About Medical Doctors And Torture

Why were American physicians taking part in government torture programs?

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Torture Issues in Congress

Articles about torture from That's My Congress

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George W. Bush admits he approved torture

A special report from BNN

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