ever heard of slavoj zizek....?
A little intro about him.. he is a colorful lecturer who has written many interesting controversial articles. I've read a few of his writings and I intend to read every one of them. Easy to read and it appears that his work truly hits the reality of what goes on in our sad world. I sometimes feel that the human race will come to an end before judgement day at the way human beings are torturing one another or we will regress and become vultures of all shades, sizes and madness.
I read his article today on "culture of torture". He wrote about Saddam's Information Minister which we all remember as the comical minister. That hero who claimed that the US tanks on their streets was just a hollywood special effects and that he supposedly failed to ever make sense although he did many times especially when he said "they are not in control of anything, not even themselves!". Now keep that in mind as you read the rest of my blof. Funny how some things sometimes hits the hard truth. That line in particular reminds the writer about what went on at Abu Gharib prison last year.
I'm sure many of you have seen the photograps of the Iraqi prisoners being tortured and sexually humiliated.
Isn't it ironic that the US soldiers, the "Americans": who supposedly fight for democracy, freedom and personal dignity conduct themselves in quite the opposite way? Not all Americans, but those US soldiers ... many of them and what they did to the prisoners was like bad cops planting evidence for a crime.
...funny, how everything was kept hush hush although the Int'l Red Cross kept sending reports to the US authorities of abuses at the prisons for months...
...and when they had to confront the reality of what their soldiers did, their explanation was that their soldiers were not properly taught the Geneva convention! feed that bullshit to a rat...
...forget soldiers but wouldn't any humanbeing know that sexually humiliating another person is simply wrong? is it not common sense?
I personally would rather have Saddam's regime brutally inflict pain and physical torture of every kind on me than psychologically and sexually humiliate me.
What kind of animals are these soldiers to be smiling pathetically and posing around naked men?
is this really a picture of the American popular culture?
or this arrogance towards 3rd world people?
To make matters worse, Rumsfeld actually admitted that there were stronger things such as videos of rape and murder!
It's crazy how anything can be changed in the US. They issue a secret memo which had additional procedures (psychological torture) to keep their operation under control? Geneva Convention out of date a couple of months before the torture of the prisoners were out in the media? what a pile of crap! they might as well kill people than make them the living dead.
Is this the kind of American values that the world should learn?
I wonder! sorry but I had to vent!
Feb 2nd, 05
I read his article today on "culture of torture". He wrote about Saddam's Information Minister which we all remember as the comical minister. That hero who claimed that the US tanks on their streets was just a hollywood special effects and that he supposedly failed to ever make sense although he did many times especially when he said "they are not in control of anything, not even themselves!". Now keep that in mind as you read the rest of my blof. Funny how some things sometimes hits the hard truth. That line in particular reminds the writer about what went on at Abu Gharib prison last year.
I'm sure many of you have seen the photograps of the Iraqi prisoners being tortured and sexually humiliated.
Isn't it ironic that the US soldiers, the "Americans": who supposedly fight for democracy, freedom and personal dignity conduct themselves in quite the opposite way? Not all Americans, but those US soldiers ... many of them and what they did to the prisoners was like bad cops planting evidence for a crime.
...funny, how everything was kept hush hush although the Int'l Red Cross kept sending reports to the US authorities of abuses at the prisons for months...
...and when they had to confront the reality of what their soldiers did, their explanation was that their soldiers were not properly taught the Geneva convention! feed that bullshit to a rat...
...forget soldiers but wouldn't any humanbeing know that sexually humiliating another person is simply wrong? is it not common sense?
I personally would rather have Saddam's regime brutally inflict pain and physical torture of every kind on me than psychologically and sexually humiliate me.
What kind of animals are these soldiers to be smiling pathetically and posing around naked men?
is this really a picture of the American popular culture?
or this arrogance towards 3rd world people?
To make matters worse, Rumsfeld actually admitted that there were stronger things such as videos of rape and murder!
It's crazy how anything can be changed in the US. They issue a secret memo which had additional procedures (psychological torture) to keep their operation under control? Geneva Convention out of date a couple of months before the torture of the prisoners were out in the media? what a pile of crap! they might as well kill people than make them the living dead.
Is this the kind of American values that the world should learn?
I wonder! sorry but I had to vent!
Feb 2nd, 05
posted by Color at 12:49 AM
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