Torture: Now Part of Our National Character

I pledge allegiance Beating; punching with fists; use of truncheons; kicking; slamming against walls;
to the flag stretching or suspension (to tear ligaments or muscles to cause asphyxia); external electric shocks;
of the United States of America, forcing prisoners to abase and to urinate on themselves; forced masturbation;
and to the Republic for which it stands, forced renunciation of religion; false confessions or accusations; applying urine and feces to prisoners;
One Nation making verbal threats to a prisoner and his family; denigration of a prisoner's religion; force-feeding;
Under God induced hypothermia and exposure to extreme heat; dietary manipulation; use of sedatives; extreme sleep deprivation;
Indivisible mock executions; water immersion; "water-boarding"; obstruction of the prisoner's airway; chest compression;
With Liberty and Justice for all thermal burning; rape; dog bites; sexual abuse; forcing a prisoner to watch the abuse or torture of a loved one.

{italicized portions are a direct quote from "interrogation techniques reliably documented at U.S. detention centers in Guantanamo or Afghanistan, compiled by medical ethicist, Stephen Miles, in a forthcoming book, "Oath Betrayed." His sources are 35,000 pages of FOIAed government documents or credible witness testimony"}

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