Compare and contrast
| Or two megaphones are constructed of rolled up cardboard, and two interrogators, coming close to the prisoner, bellow in both ears: "Confess, you rat! | On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor. |
| For example, the _________ cells were entirely unheated. There were radiators in the corridor only, and in this "heated" corridor the guards on duty walked in felt boots and padded jackets. The prisoner was forced to undress down to his underwear, and sometimes to his undershorts, and he was forced to spend from three to five days in the punishment cell without moving (since it was so confining). | On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold |
| A long piece of rough toweling was inserted between the prisoner's jaws like a bridle; the ends were then pulled back over his shoulders and tied to his heels. Just try lying on your stomach like a wheel, with your spine breaking-and without water and food for two days! | On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water |
| The prisoner was pushed into such a pit, ten feet in depth, six and a half feet in diameter; and beneath the open sky, rain or shine, this pit was for several days both his cell and his latrine. | Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. |
| They use rubber truncheons, and they use wooden mallets and small sandbags. It is very, very painful when they hit a bone-for example, an interrogator's jackboot on the shin, where the bone lies just beneath the skin. They beat ________ for twenty-one days in a row. And today he says: "Even after thirty years all my bones ache and my head too." In recollecting his own experience and the stories of others, he counts up to fifty-two methods of torture. Here is one: They grip the hand in a special vise so that the prisoner's palm lies flat on the desk-and then they hit the joints with the thin edge of a ruler. And one screams! | Two ________ prisoners who died in ________ custody in _______ were chained to the ceiling, kicked and beaten by ________ soldiers in sustained assaults that caused their deaths |
| 8. The accused could be compelled to stand on his knees-not in some figurative sense, but literally: on his knees, without sitting back on his heels, and with his back upright. People could be compelled to kneel in the interrogator's office or the corridor for twelve, or even twenty-four or forty-eight hours. (The interrogator himself could go home, sleep, amuse himself in one way or another-this was an organized system; watch was kept over the kneeling prisoner, and the guards worked in shifts.) What kind of prisoner was most vulnerable to such treatment? | The _______ authorized tough techniques to intimidate detainees during interrogations, including using guard dogs and placing prisoners in painful “stress positions” |
| At the _______, _______ refused to give the testimony demanded of her. She was transferred to _______. In the admitting office, a woman jailer ordered her to undress, allegedly for a medical examination, took away her clothes, and locked her in a "box" naked. At that point the men jailers began to peer through the peephole and to appraise her female attributes with loud laughs | Col. ________, the military intelligence officer in charge of interrogations at _________, is reported as having openly acknowledged the use of forced nudity as part of the intelligence process. |
The column on the left is, of course, quotations from The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 (Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn), describing the Soviet gulags. The column on the right is, despite appearances, not talking about the Soviet gulag -- no, it's talking about the AMERICAN gulag smiling rainbow factory.
Rogue state? If you're an American, you're soaking in it!