One of the first things the victorious rebels did in Syria was head for Bashar Al- Assad’s notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus, nicknamed “the Human Slaughterhouse.” The press and social media tagged along, and we’ve been inundated with horrific images of desperate figures in dank, crowded cells, brutal instruments of torture, and first-hand accounts of the ruthless treatment of men, women, and children incarcerated there, some for years.
From its earliest days of supporting and expanding slavery ( ended probably for economic and hot moral, ethical , humanitarian reasons) the US has shown a willingness to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to horrific uses of torture - even witness Guantanamo's unending illegal holding and mistreating of "prisoners"..But when I read in your article about the complicity, the joining in of so many other 'democratic' countries in providing persons they consider 'questionable' for incarceration and torture, I realize that we have not risen above the dark ages, the rack, the tools of torture perfected during the Middle Ages. It does not get any better despite statistics which suggest that these are 'less violent times'.
Thanks for reminding us of these things, Barry.
From its earliest days of supporting and expanding slavery ( ended probably for economic and hot moral, ethical , humanitarian reasons) the US has shown a willingness to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to horrific uses of torture - even witness Guantanamo's unending illegal holding and mistreating of "prisoners"..But when I read in your article about the complicity, the joining in of so many other 'democratic' countries in providing persons they consider 'questionable' for incarceration and torture, I realize that we have not risen above the dark ages, the rack, the tools of torture perfected during the Middle Ages. It does not get any better despite statistics which suggest that these are 'less violent times'.
I don't think so.