Unleashing The Id

Can somebody explain to me why American interrogation techniques seem to always involve sticking objects up prisoners’ asses? This has got to be some sort of “method” because it is reported over and over again:

“He had two, 10-hour beatings from the Americans and I said to David, ‘Sure they were Americans?’ (because) he said he had a bag over his head and he said, ‘Oh look … I know their accents, they were definitely American’,” Mr Hicks told Four Corners.

“Some pretty horrific things … were done to him.”

The program reported the abuse had included Hicks being injected and then penetrated anally with various objects.

Hicks’ lawyers say they have witnesses relating to the abuse and that the United States has photographic evidence.

His American lawyer, Major Michael Mori, would not comment on the specifics of what information he had.

“I’d say it’s an area that I’m investigating and that I’ve already found some evidence and witnesses that support that occurring,” he told Four Corners.

Former Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mamdouh Habib, who was released earlier this year, has also claimed that he was abused while on foreign soil.

In February, Mr Habib detailed how he was tortured in a military airport in Pakistan.

During a particular episode of abuse, Mr Habib said 15 men stripped him, inserted something into his anus, put him in a nappy and tied him up.

Is this some sort of American sexual panic or is it official policy that sexual violence is the best way to “interrogate” prisoners?

Every time I read this stuff it makes my stomach churn. What is being described is depraved sexual violence— rape. And I wonder about the men and women who are perpetrating these horrifying acts. This is a license to unleash the darkness which I assume exists to some extent or another in most people — and then they are going to come back into society and we are going to expect them to behave like decent people.

I’m beginning to think that we’re not dealing with interrogation at all. We’re dealing with something insidious and familiar: rape camps. It appears that based upon some strange reading of Islam that says being raped is unusually unpleasant for Muslims, we are using rape as a military strategy. The same thing happened in Bosnia to Muslim women:

…the Mission accepted the view that rape is part of a pattern of abuse, usually perpetrated with the conscious intention of demoralising and terrorising communities, driving them from their home regions and demonstrating the power of the invading forces. Viewed in this way, rape cannot be seen as incidental to the main purposes of the aggression but at serving a strategic purpose in itself

Americans are apparently doing the same thing — to men. There is just too much evidence of this wierd sexual violence and humiliation for it to be a coincidence. We have become the Serbs.

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