Stanton, Torture, and Military Prisons — Setting the Precedent by Al Benson, Jr.
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15 May 2008
Stanton, Torture, and Military Prisons — Setting the Precedent
by Al Benson, Jr.
By now we should all have heard of Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison where American soldiers practiced various forms of torture, both emotional and physical, on various Iraqi prisoners–all a part of George Bush’s “experiment” in democracy in Iraq. People were shocked when they read about Abu Ghraib. How, they thought, could Americans do such things? They wondered how decent and upright American soldiers could partake of such behaviour–surely this had to have been the first time for this sort of thing, right? Well, no, actually that’s not quite right. Americans have been partaking of torture of one sort or another since the advent of the Lincoln administration. Lincoln and his associates seem to have had a paranoid fear of disloyalty to the federal government, to the point where thousands upon thousands of Northern civilians were arrested and hauled off to prisons on the basis of nothing more than vague suspicion or some neighbour’s hearsay accusation.
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