"It is not accidental that in the torturers' idiom the room in which the
brutality occurs was called the 'production room' in the Philippines,
the 'cinema room' in South Vietnam, and the 'blue lit stage' in
Chile...having as its purpose the production of a fantastic illusion of
power, torture is a grotesque piece of compensatory drama." --Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain
In the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal the right wing was quick to blame
the incident on two of its favorite...
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