Palestinian Hanging

Okay, kids, the following description gets a bit rough...Those people who are sensitive to hearing a torture process described (and I do so delicately, I hope) should probably skip around and find one of the funny or movie-related articles instead. (Though not the review of The Isle...that's a good deal more troubling).

Alright, so, This Modern World, a thoroughly terrific blog from Tom Tomorrow, who draws a lefty comic strip of the same name, has posted a description of what's known as Palestinian Hanging. This is what the CIA calls the interrogation process where they take an Arab prisoner and tie him up with his wrists behind his back. It's been called the most painful position into which you can enter a human body.

Well, Tom makes the observation that he's seen this technique used for dealing with prisoners before...in pictures of Dachau. Yeah, that would be the Nazi concentration camp. They used the same procedure for torturing Jews and other dissident prisoners during the Holocaust.

So, that's just terrific news. I love it when our government borrows ideas from one of the most vile, evil conglomeration of villains in modern world history. Just letting the rest of the world know that Freedom is on the March, I suppose.