The mockery with which neo-cons participate in the current US discourse on torture is not surprising: Limbaugh slapping himself gently and facetiously; Hannity offering to be waterboarded for charity; giggling theses as to what constitutes and does not torture…
Because that is what torture is – a derision. It mocks our commonly held value of physical sovereignty. Torture is often accompanied by jokes, laughter, obscenities from the torturers. Any torture survivor will tell you this. Hence, the unspeakable ridicule that was the essence of the Abu Ghraib pictures: human beings as walls of naked buttocks, as contemptuously crucified with electrodes while hooded. It is humanity’s disdain for its own frailty carried to an infinite degree.
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