Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2003-06-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
;Torture done correctly is a terminal process" is so old-school...

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2003-06-25 Thread netkita
Just out of suriosity .. do you have any of the poems or a location for them? Sorry for the delay in answering them. Deirdre On 21 Nov 2002 at 23:17, James A. Donald wrote: > > -- > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: > > > To flesh this out a little more

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, cubic-dog wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > > At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > > >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. > > >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any > > experience >

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Steve Mynott wrote: > The British Army in Northern Ireland in the 1970s used to make alleged > IRA people stand with hoods on leaning against a wall listening to > white noise for long periods of time. When you collapse you are beaten. Just sit down and get it over with, y

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:42 PM 11/25/2002 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:00:57PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:18 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Even if it were possible (which I doubt) what's the point in even > mentioning it since most people tortured ar

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Gutmann
Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I read some books in my youth on SH and found I could put myself in a self- >induced altered reality state from which I could not be easily awakened. I've had that too, listening to pre-election party political broadcasts. >physical abuse might be thwart

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:00:59PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > It's not some New Age weekend camp when you imprisoned and beaten by > your captors. And, BTW, yoga is hardly New Age. It's quite ancient, precedes written history in fact. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybersha

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:00:57PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:18 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > > I've also worked with self hypnosis quite a bit, and it's useful, > >but I'll > >say again, anyone fairly adept at yogic meditation would not have much >

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mynott
On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 21:14 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:58:55PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: I should think that a bit of practical training in self hypnosis could thwart sensory deprivation. I read some books in my youth on SH and found I could put mys

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:58:55PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > At 07:00 PM 11/25/2002 +, you wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: > > > >>The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of > >>convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke > >>nearl

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:00 PM 11/25/2002 +, you wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke nearly anyone. The effects are supposed to be a lot worse than you would imagine wh

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
You probably should have tried it on about 5 (dried) grams of psilocybic mushrooms or a good dose of ayahuasca instead of the acid. They're both much more suited to dark and quiet while acid seems to really like light and music. Really very different things -- McKenna wrote quite a bit about th

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread cubic-dog
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. > >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any > experience > >with them) don't modify the experience a great de

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread cubic-dog
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: > > > The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of > > convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke > > nearly anyone. > > Noone has mentioned sleep deprivation which is sup

sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mynott
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke nearly anyone. Noone has mentioned sleep deprivation which is supposed to be extremely effective, although with the potentia

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any experience >with them) don't modify the experience a great deal either. Certainly not >to upset anyone this much, this f

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-24 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: > The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of > convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke > nearly anyone. Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. No big deal. Note that psychoactives

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-21 Thread James A. Donald
-- > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: > > To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen > > Trott, speaking on September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth > > Club. Trott credits the torture warrant idea to Alan > > Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good fri

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: > To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen Trott, speaking on > September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth Club. Trott credits the torture > warrant idea to Alan Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good friend and a > "great civ

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-21 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:33 AM, Greg Broiles wrote: At 06:34 PM 11/20/2002 -0800, Lucky Green wrote: I recently obtained an illuminating recording of a speech by a judge sitting on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which was given before the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. In said

RE: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-20 Thread Lucky Green
Adam wrote: > The Russians, Americans and I believe others have moved from > physical to psychological methods which have proven to work > better than actual physical pain. I recall reading a story > on Abdul Murad, the Al Qaeda member arrested in 1995 in the > Philipines, where the way they f

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-20 Thread Adam Shostack
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:30:42PM -0800, Tim May wrote: | On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 12:49 PM, dmolnar wrote: | | >On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: | > | >>to have a big jpg of a hand with middle finger extended...) More than | >>this, | >>they will have unknowingly destroyed t

Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-20 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 12:49 PM, dmolnar wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: to have a big jpg of a hand with middle finger extended...) More than this, they will have unknowingly destroyed the real data. (Perhaps a 3rd key is needed that DOESN'T destroy the original