[h/t Greenwald and Sullivan]
The New York Times has finally discovered how to use the nice, simple word "torture". But only in an obituary of an American Air Force pilot captured by the Chinese near the end of the Korean War.
What were the hideous techniques the Chicoms used to force this noble American into a bogus confession of germ WMD warfare? See below.
For most of that time, he was kept in a dark, damp cell with no bed and no opening except a slot in the door through which a bowl of food could be pushed. Much of the time he was handcuffed. Hour after hour, a high-frequency whistle pierced the air.
Hunh? That's it? None of that approaches the severe pain of organ failure and death—you know, the American Yoo-Bybee standard of torture. We do what Capt. Fischer endured to our detainees, and a lot worse, too.
I have written to the NY Times pointing out that they have libeled the People's Republic of China. I mean, the alternative is that the Times has facilitated a euphemistic charade about "enhanced interrogation techniques" (doesn't that sound better as "Verschärfte Vernehmung" in its original German?) and helped obscure the fact the former Vice President and a score of lesser fry are self-admitted war criminals.
What am I thinking? Time to watch another episode of 24, Fox's version of The Eternal Jew, broadcast to desensitize the audience to the barbarity to follow.