No blood, no foul.....
Just trying to catch up......
I saw that in the midst of the most recent Abu Ghraib/Afghan prison scandal, it turns out that our policy on torture/interrogation is very simple: No blood, no foul.
Wow.
As a semi-retired, internationally licensed soccer coach, this rings a bell. As my dear friend Tom Emery's U.S. State Department Food Service aphorism goes: ''Where the competition is fierce.....and the stakes are low." I spent my soccer career fighting this mentality......but occasionally employed it: Girls, it is really important to the Parents that we win this match, so brake that chick's leg if you can." One league match, Brendan broke his arm ten minutes in.....I got him to Saint Louise, got a cast, and had him back for the second half. He fucked up the goalkeeper who kicked his arm with the cast......
Only in soccer it goes like this: No BONE showing, no foul....Blood is normal
There is historical precedent for the milder version.
In the late 1200's and 1300's the dearly beloved Catholic church was worried about folks straying from the mainstream. Perfectly reasonable vegetarians in the south of France, gnarly warrior investment bankers (the Templars) that would make Dick Cheney weep like the fucking pussy that he is......The Church broke them all. The only thing their interrogators...the Dominicans of The Inquistion........ were not allowed to do was draw blood....
Check out ''The Devils" by Ken Russell, lunatic cinematographer.....or "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley.....The Dominican interrogators had a way of dislocating every joint in the human body.....and then shattering every bone in the same body (Temple of the Holy Spirit, if I remember my Catechism....). They also used fire, and would burn acres of flesh, and gouge out eyeballs with hot pokers. No blood, you see.
They also were allowed to search for witches in the flesh....their presence would be revealed by a lack of sensation in the tissue.......by sliding super skinny needles into every centimeter over the entire body. No blood, if you do it right. After a couple of weeks of interrogation, it developed in the "Devils of Loudun" case that the priest they were after, Urbain Grandier, had no sensation in a small area of his back.....and in his left testicle. Guilty as charged. They dislocated all his joints, shattered his major bones, seared out his eyeballs, and dragged him around every church in town to pray on his broken knees before every altar.....and then they burned him alive. He paid the captain of the guards to strangle him before the fire got him.....but the guy fucked up.......
(I have to tell you.....and Homeland Security.....that I have no feeling in a small area of my back. And I can't speak for my left testicle, since they chopped it off when I was ten. Me, Adolf Hitler, John Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Urbain Grandier......Really..... I am waiting for the knock. And the needles.....)
Anyway, Urbain would have been better off in Abu Ghraib than with the Dominicans.......
Really?
Aren't we supposed to evolve?
Oh, I'm sorry.......that is just a theory.
I saw that in the midst of the most recent Abu Ghraib/Afghan prison scandal, it turns out that our policy on torture/interrogation is very simple: No blood, no foul.
Wow.
As a semi-retired, internationally licensed soccer coach, this rings a bell. As my dear friend Tom Emery's U.S. State Department Food Service aphorism goes: ''Where the competition is fierce.....and the stakes are low." I spent my soccer career fighting this mentality......but occasionally employed it: Girls, it is really important to the Parents that we win this match, so brake that chick's leg if you can." One league match, Brendan broke his arm ten minutes in.....I got him to Saint Louise, got a cast, and had him back for the second half. He fucked up the goalkeeper who kicked his arm with the cast......
Only in soccer it goes like this: No BONE showing, no foul....Blood is normal
There is historical precedent for the milder version.
In the late 1200's and 1300's the dearly beloved Catholic church was worried about folks straying from the mainstream. Perfectly reasonable vegetarians in the south of France, gnarly warrior investment bankers (the Templars) that would make Dick Cheney weep like the fucking pussy that he is......The Church broke them all. The only thing their interrogators...the Dominicans of The Inquistion........ were not allowed to do was draw blood....
Check out ''The Devils" by Ken Russell, lunatic cinematographer.....or "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley.....The Dominican interrogators had a way of dislocating every joint in the human body.....and then shattering every bone in the same body (Temple of the Holy Spirit, if I remember my Catechism....). They also used fire, and would burn acres of flesh, and gouge out eyeballs with hot pokers. No blood, you see.
They also were allowed to search for witches in the flesh....their presence would be revealed by a lack of sensation in the tissue.......by sliding super skinny needles into every centimeter over the entire body. No blood, if you do it right. After a couple of weeks of interrogation, it developed in the "Devils of Loudun" case that the priest they were after, Urbain Grandier, had no sensation in a small area of his back.....and in his left testicle. Guilty as charged. They dislocated all his joints, shattered his major bones, seared out his eyeballs, and dragged him around every church in town to pray on his broken knees before every altar.....and then they burned him alive. He paid the captain of the guards to strangle him before the fire got him.....but the guy fucked up.......
(I have to tell you.....and Homeland Security.....that I have no feeling in a small area of my back. And I can't speak for my left testicle, since they chopped it off when I was ten. Me, Adolf Hitler, John Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Urbain Grandier......Really..... I am waiting for the knock. And the needles.....)
Anyway, Urbain would have been better off in Abu Ghraib than with the Dominicans.......
Really?
Aren't we supposed to evolve?
Oh, I'm sorry.......that is just a theory.
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