From the hearts and minds of men: Torture (vol. 1) | Mickey Z.

Dan Mitrione (above left); also shown a finger crushing device, an electric shock device, and dental devices - all smuggled into Brazil and Uruguay by "diplomatic pouch" from the United States. Mitrione is the man who made torture a routine part of the CIA's operations throughout Latin America. He is quoted as having said: "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect." He used homeless people for training purposes, who were executed once they had served their purpose. On July 31, 1970, the left-wing Tupamaros in Uruguay kidnapped Mitrione and an Agency for International Development associate, Claude L. Fry. Although the Tupamaros released Fry they proceeded to interrogate Mitrione about his past and the intervention of the U.S. government in Latin American. Mitrione was later found dead in a car. He had been shot twice in the head. Image: antipasministries.com

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Dec. 6, 2017

On Planet Patriarchy, males dominate. Thus, our decisions and inventions impact all forms of life 24/7. This series of articles will explore some of the “creations” spawned by the hearts and minds of men. Previously, it was firebombing and depleted uranium weapons and dam busting. For article #4, it’s torture.

Obviously, when it comes to male-created torture, it’d take countless volumes to even scratch the surface. So, for now, I’ll focus on relatively recent examples that also debunk the Home of the Brave™ myth.

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“Moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers”
Let’s start this mini-history lesson by harking back to the Nicaraguan contras of the 1980s. This noble group of U.S.-funded “freedom fighters” regularly attacked civilians, cutting off women’s breasts and men’s testicles, gouging out eyes, beheading infants, using children for target practice, and slitting throats and pulling the victim’s tongue out through the slit. Then there was the 14-year-old girl who was gang-raped and decapitated. Her head was placed on a stake as a warning to government supporters in her village. 

Ronald Reagan called the Nicaraguan contras “the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers” while the chairman of Americas Watch and Helsinki Watch concluded “the United States cannot avoid responsibility for these atrocities.”

“Literally torn to pieces”
During the CIA’s holy war against the USSR in 1980s Afghanistan, the U.S-.trained and funded Moujahedeen drugged captured Soviet soldiers and kept them in cages. A reporter from the Far Eastern Economic Review told of Soviet soldiers killed, skinned, and hung in a butcher’s shop. 

“One captive,” he reported, “found himself the center of attraction in a game of buzkashi,” an Afghan form of polo using a headless goat as the ball. In this case, the Soviet captive was used, alive. “He was literally torn to pieces,” said the reporter.

Keeping the world safe… and all that
Of course, the men within the Land of the Free™ have never been afraid to get their own hands bloody. For example, a 1975 Senate investigating committee exposed U.S. methods of interrogating pairs of Vietcong [sic] prisoners. 

In one case, when the first prisoner refused to speak, he was thrown from an airplane at 3,000 feet. The second prisoner answered all questions but was thrown from the plane anyway. Other techniques involved cutting off fingers, fingernails, ears, or sexual organs of one prisoner while the other looked on.

“An example for free men everywhere”
Then we have Dan Mitrione, head of Orwellian-named U.S. Office of Public Safety, who trained the Brazilian police force in the 1960s. One of the techniques Mitrione taught involved placing the end of a reed in the anus of a naked man hanging suspended. The other end of the reed is soaked in oil and lit.

In Uruguay, Mitrione was called in to help deal with the Tupamaros, a group once called “perhaps the cleverest, most resourceful, and most sophisticated urban guerrillas the world has ever seen.” Under the guidance of Mitrione, the Uruguayan Senate found that torture had become a “normal, frequent, and habitual occurrence.” 

Male-created and orchestrated techniques included electric shocks to the genitals, electric needles under the fingernails, and use of “a wire so thin that it could be fitted into the mouth between the teeth and by pressing against the gum increase the electrical charge.”

Such phallocentric tactics were honed in Mitrione’s own soundproof basement room. Blum writes of Mitrione’s use of four homeless men to demonstrate the effects of different voltages on different parts of the body. All four men died.

“The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect,” Mitrione mansplained.

Mitrione was eventually kidnapped and killed by the Tupamaros. At his funeral, then-White House spokesman Ron Ziegler stated: “Mr. Mitrione’s devoted service to the cause of peace in an orderly world will remain as an example for free men everywhere.”

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