Torture Is An Abomination To Humankind by Carol Warner Christen

[Joanne98]

Torture Is An Abomination To Humankind

by Carol Warner Christen


I renounce and denounce torture against any human and myself.
Can a free and equal human being agree to be tortured by others for their reasons?
Can others deprive a human being of liberty in order to torture that being?

Torture is illegal for parents to practice upon their children; the state sees to that.
Sometimes the state gives the children to worse torturers.
How could torture be legal on adults when done to prisoners, to anyone?

Is torture involuntary servitude?
Is the torturer an elected leader?
Did the legislature raise the torturer to ruling status?
Is the torturer acting a bondage and bloody fantasy of sexuality?

State the law and the legality under the Constitution for torture.
State the treaty permitting torture.
State the rationale for torture.

Follow through and submit yourself to torture if your belief is torture is a public good.
Follow through and denounce torture if you will not be tortured yourself.
Denounce torture for the sake of the Bill of Rights.
Denounce torture as a medieval horror for it is that.
Denounce torture by the religious.
Denounce torture as un-American.
Denounce torture.

If you cannot state the law, the legality, the treaty, or the rationale, forget forever torture.
Join with all our citizens and recant torture.
How did we devolve to such a degree as to permit torture?

http://www.swans.com/library/art13/carenc21.html

I put Naomi Klein in Google blogs and this came up...Keep some sleep my awesome DUers. Tommorrow we will ring the phones in Congress off the hook to try and get that bastard Cheney impeached.. I finally got The Shock Doctrine. I'm reading it now..They have revived the MKULTRA project...This has to stop. Good night!

[Joanne98]

1. The Sleep Room

The Canadian Broadcasting Company's
The Fifth Estate TV Show
Ewen Cameron and
The Sleep Room
January 6, 1998



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As I transcribed the tape some words seemed to change their position in sentences, or change into other words. This is due to interference to the tape machine's audio electronics by the high-tech electronics of the "controllers," who obviously have a sound studio complete with actors. They appeared to be minor changes not affecting the meaning of sentences, at least hopefully. - Ed Light



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Announcer:

Behind closed doors, human guinea pigs in shocking mind control experiments conducted by our government and the CIA.
Female victim:

I had no identity, I had no memory, I'd never existed in the world before.
Announcer:

The horrors of "the sleep room" -- next on "The Fifth Estate."
...Interlude...

Announcer:

Tonight!
Female victim:

The man whom I had thought cared about what happened to me, didn't give a damn. I was a fly. Just a fly.
Announcer:

Revisiting Canada's infamous "sleep room."
Female victim:

I was -- had to be toilet trained; I was a vegetable.
Announcer:

In the 1960s Dr. Ewen Cameron conducted CIA funded experiments on troubled Canadian patients he was meant to help.
Male victim:

It wasn't treatment for anything. It was out and out guinea pigs for brainwashing experiments.
Announcer:

A Fifth Estate investigation revealed how one Canadian government secretly supported these horrific experiments, and then another blocked the victims' fight for justice.
Male voice:

The Mulrooney government, in effect, stabbed its citizens in the back at every turn.
Announcer:

Linden MacIntyre with the real life victims of "the sleep room," and behind the scenes of a new CBC movie about this nightmare chapter in our history.
...Interlude...

Linden MacIntyre:

Welcome to the Fifth Estate. When Canadians first learned that CIA brainwashing experiments had been carried out on Canadians in Canada, with the knowledge of our government, it was a tremendous shock. As the Fifth Estate was first to report in 1984, the work that Dr. Ewen Cameron oversaw at his Montreal clinic was shocking. Now, the story of Cameron's experiments, and the victims' struggle for justice, have been made into a riveting movie, to be broadcast on CBC Television this Sunday and Monday nights. For the victims of the "sleep room," the horror has never really ended.
Even if you don't know the history of the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, it looks like a natural setting for a movie -- a horror movie, maybe.
...women's scream...

But then the truth of what happened to hundreds of psychiatric patients there a long time ago is a horror story.
Male voice:

O.K. So we're on route, guys. Peaceably on.
Linden MacIntyre:

And now, it has become a movie -- a dramatized account of a bleak chapter in the history of Canadian psychiatry, produced by a former Fifth Estate documentary maker, Bernard Zuckerman.
The central character in the movie is a world-renowned psychiatrist at the Allen in the early 60s. His name was Dr. Ewen Cameron.
Male voice:

It's the classic story of good turning to evil in its most simplistic terms. Dr. Cameron started off as someone who is probably one of the most enlightened psychiatrists in the country, but then something happened, and whatever happened, suddenly here is this enlightened doctor, this noble doctor, who begins doing more and more and more bizarre experiments on his patients to the point where he is destroying the minds of hundreds of people.
Male speaker :

These are the days, and ours are the occasions.
Linden MacIntyre:

Inspired by the exuberant post-war optimism and technology, Cameron thought he'd achieved a major scientific breakthrough -- how to repair a damaged human mind. The media rejoiced -- even coined a phrase which would become a tragically silly oxymoron: "beneficial brainwashing."
Linda McDonald was a young mother with five Continued>>>

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[Joanne98]

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