{"id":48854,"date":"2014-12-10T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/on-institutionalizing-torture.html"},"modified":"2014-12-12T09:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:19:59","slug":"on-institutionalizing-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/on-institutionalizing-torture.html","title":{"rendered":"On institutionalizing torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little history less from across the Pond.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Andreas Schou<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Torture: A Historical Parable<\/b><\/p>\n

After a long history of adventurism in the Islamic world, a major world power turned to torture to fight terrorism. Initially justified by exigency, used only in response to imminent threats, it rapidly became a ubiquitous outlet for pure sadism. Its use expanded from high-value targets who were planning attacks directly on that major world power, and it was widely used in its program of extrajudicial detention, both in-theater and outside of it.<\/p>\n

When restrictions were finally placed on generals' ability to directly order war crimes, and the world power pulled back its colonial forces, the generals staged a coup. Because, having serially committed war crimes, they could no longer be assured of the law's protection.<\/p>\n

Torture is cancerous. Once authorized, it is rapidly institutionalized. Once institutionalized, it is extraordinarily difficult to bring it to heel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe May 1958 crisis (or Algiers putsch or the coup of 13 May) was a political crisis in France during the turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) which led to the return of Charles de Gaulle to political responsibilities after a twelve-year absence. It started as a coup attempt led …\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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