Torture, encouraged from above, became a fact of life [in Iraq]. Perhaps some good liberal apologist for Blair will soon explain how democratic torture is much nicer than authoritarian torture. Tariq Ali, The Guardian 26th March 2005
The United States has always said any regime that uses it [waterboarding] on an American, it is torture. Christopher Hitchens, Q&A CSpan April 2009
‘The only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people.’ The Road to Guantanamo, George Bush, Channel 4 2006
‘We jumped on a bus and off we went.’ ibid.
‘As soon as we got to Kandahar that’s when the bombing started.’ ibid.
Kabul 16th October 2001: ‘US bombing raids continue around the clock.’ ibid. news
‘You could smell the stench of blood on him [bombing victim]. ibid.
‘More al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners arriving today in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Despite international criticism America insists the conditions inside Camp X-Ray are humane.’ ibid.
March 3rd 2011: A suspicious fire on the outskirts of town … If Lois [Pearson] didn’t die in the fire, where is she? … Very Bad Men s3e15: Captured Alive, ID 2006
Why was [Jeffrey] Maxwell cashing a cheque for a missing person? ibid.
Lois Pearson relives her worst nightmare. ibid.
Maxwell seems happy to describe his depraved methods of torture. ibid.
Martha Maxwell’s disappearance may never be solved. ibid.
The kidnapping, rape and torture of Lois Pearson … he is sentenced to Life in prison. ibid.
They are the most notorious parents in America today accused of torturing, abusing and imprisoning twelve of their thirteen children. Early on Sunday January 14th police in California are called to the home of the reclusive Turpin family and make an horrific discovery: 13 children, most are starving, some are shackled to beds. Their parents, David and Louise Turpin, are arrested. Tortured by Mum & Dad: The Turpin 13, Channel 5 2018
As children they were subjected to sexual abuse. ibid.
Keep teasing me like that, you’re going to drive me crazy. Hard Candy 2005 starring Ellen Page & Patrick Wilson & Sandra Oh & Jennifer Holmes & Erin Kraft & Gabe Kerr & Cori Bright et al, director David Slade, him to her
Jeff, play time is over. Now it’s time to wake up. ibid. her to him
Cameras, computers, they let you hide, don’t they? It’s so safe. ibid.
It’s just so easy to blame a kid, isn’t it? ibid.
[discovers photographs] This is what they make those federal laws for, Jeff. This is actually sick. ibid.
You’re going to be sorer than you’ve ever been before. ibid. castrates him
1960: The Observer was reporting: Spies Brainwashed in Britain: a technique of brainwashing was developed in Britain during the War and used to extract confessions from captured spies. Document: 16/11/2009, BBC Radio 4
If this letter is to be believed, such methods were being used by the British, not in Britain as the Observer claimed but in Cairo. ibid.
Child Abuse and possibly murder at the Jersey Island children’s home ‘Haut de la Garenne’. Sun, Sea & Satan, Bill Maloney Pie n Mash Films 2014, Youtube 59.04
Within that cellar there is at least one dead child and maybe more. ibid. rozzer Lenny Harper
I’m here investigating the allegations of torture, murder and child sex abuse in the children’s home ‘Haut de la Garenne’. ibid. Bill Maloney
There is evidence of a massive establishment cover-up. ibid.
One hundred thousand children go missing in the UK each year. ibid. research the Children’s Society
Victims of Haut de la Garenne that have come forward have stated children would often just disappear. ibid.
That’s fucking witchcraft. ibid. re bizarre paedophilic sculptures in resident’s front garden
And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men. Deuteronomy 32:19-26
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Leviticus 26:16-33
It came to pass also, that seven brethren with their mother were taken, and compelled by the king against the law to taste swine’s flesh, and were tormented with scourges and whips.
But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? We are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.
Then the king, being in a rage, commanded pans and caldrons to be made hot:
Which forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.