CBS News says it’s issuing takedown orders for a shelved “60 Minutes” segment after it was posted on Global TV’s app on Monday and then spread online.
A representative for the network says its Canadian broadcast partner had “mistakenly published” the segment, dubbed “Inside CECOT,” after CBS News decided to delay it for a future broadcast.
Though Global has since removed the episode, the segment has been shared widely on social media.
I feel like the biggest problem in getting people to react to torture is that it’s so unrelatable.
I think a lot of people hear “stress positions”, “24 hour lights”, “pitch blackness”, and they think, ‘Well I’ve been tired before. I’ve been stuck in a hot airplane with the lights too bright. I’ve been in the dark before, these are minor discomforts.’
And I don’t think they understand that the point of all torture is to induce suffering. If the people doing this aren’t slicing someone’s body parts off with hot knives, it’s because you can get the same effect by telling someone to kneel on the ground and not letting them up for a full day, but there’s less mess.
It makes me really sad that I think people are often able to get away with torture because a key part of modern torture has been finding techniques that minimize visual signs of damage and have no similarity to things most people have experienced, and thus sound benign.
Not mentioned in all of this is that torture is – to many people’s surprise – actually very damaging for torturers too. The prison guards at this place are probably at an extremely elevated risk of intimate partner violence and suicide.
Fuck all it, especially weak-ass complicity in this fascist bullshit.
Honestly one of the most torturous things I’ve ever heard of was “little ease” a prison cell in the tower of London. It is a cell too short to stand in and too narrow to lay down in. You cant stretch out in any way. As much as I love sleeping in the fetal position, the impossibility of it would drive me insane rather quickly. The only problem is that when I think of little ease, my mind simply goes to, “why didn’t they make the floor at an angle?” And I’m like Jesus Christ, am I a horrible person for thinking of how they could make it worse? Yeah probably. But then I picture shoving musk in there and I feel better about myself.
Remember all the apologists who defended waterboarding?
17 years later, Sean Hannity still hasn’t fulfilled his promise to be waterboarded for charity.
Ironically, Archer handled it pretty well. He initially blew it off until he had to experience it for training, then he had a lot to say about how horrible it was, with a 1000-yard stare and everything. It was a little surprising, given how ridiculous the show usually is.
I mean, they get how loud (and bad) gunshots are for your ears.
And alligators……
They’re a mixed bag on what they treat even semi-seriously. They keep using guns and complaining about hearing damage, but they never get ear protection. And also, a female driver is a chauffeuse.
Can you blame people? We’ve had at minimum of 4 decades of Hollywood (over-)dramatization on what torture and espionage should look like. Who is to say that wasn’t done on purpose?
It’s absolutely on purpose. There’s even a term for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copaganda