The Middle East: Torture and shame

[WinterHold]

What's the context?  Maybe the people who are confined are really bad people. And if they are why would they allow themselves to be captured?  If they were not bad people then they should be if they are ever released.

The context is that organized torture to silence the masses is practiced widely in the Middle East, and it's the hammer Arab dictators use to silence citizens. Fear is the only thing keeping so many at bay; there's recorded evidence now of what awaits if somebody even talked.

Of course; we'll be tortured and called "bad people". But how can a human do that to their fellow humans during mere "investigation"? Who gives these soldiers the right to do this to people before charges are even payed? not that it's justified after the investigation; but just for the sake of the argument: this torture is all happening during the "interrogation". If somebody did that to me; I'll say anything probably. Even if I didn't do it. I will be cracked from the pain and from the shame. Still; if you were to the M.E; you know that the tough prisoners get even tougher forms of torture; including sexual torture, sexual rape to relatives -especially wives and daughters-, sometimes they even make the prisoners sodomize each other. So; I think that's the context. And all of this is done under the excuse of "interrogation"; but reality is it's only practiced as a hammer to shut down the masses from complaining to the world.

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It isn't torture if your attorney general writes a memo that says so.  I imagine we taught that trick to the Egyptian army.

Now Arab regimes (some at least) do use the corrupted court system to press charges against political foes; and give clearance to certain figures. Law is only practiced against the weak; and mainly used to justify most brutalities done; torture is another way to pull out signatures of acceptance on committing the crimes from the victims.