Mass hysteria’s just the fashion. Let’s get together to celebrate soon.
The New York Times reports today:
Placards posted by soldiers at the detention area advised, “NO BLOOD, NO FOUL.” The slogan, as one Defense Department official explained, reflected an adage adopted by Task Force 6–26: “If you don’t make them bleed, they can’t prosecute for it.” According to Pentagon specialists who worked with the unit, prisoners at Camp Nama often disappeared into a detention black hole, barred from access to lawyers or relatives, and confined for weeks without charges. “The reality is, there were no rules there,” another Pentagon official said.
Himsa — “The Destroyer”
when you die the times will call you the matisse of quotation; i’ll have the obituary clipped to the wall of my coffin, buried in decades of still-growing hair.