WATER TORTURE USED DURING THE SPANISH INQUISITION BY THE PIOUS TORQUEMADA WHO'S ACTIONS EVEN NOW ARE DEFENDED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH & DOES NOT REPENT FOR THESE UNCHRISTIAN ACTS OF BRUTALITY.
And here is a bit about Torquemada which reminds one of Rumsfeld:
From BLOG WHAT'S LEFT
" Never has a man so enjoyed his work! Torquemada developed and employed an elaborate network of spies and secret police to root out heresy. His favorite methods for extracting confessions, nevermind the truth, were to hang the accused by the arms so that the arms were pulled from their joints, to force the swallowing of gallons of water, and to have the joints dislocated on the rack. His methods made him generally unpopular — he had to travel with bodyguards — but no one dared oppose him. Even the Pope could not reign him in: when Sixtus issued a bull absolving conversos of any wrong they might have done, Ferdinand, under Torquemada's influence, refused to enforce it.
The least of his crimes was his twisting of jurisprudence: In 1490 Torquemada oversaw the LaGuardia trial, in which eight Jews and conversos were accused of crucifying a Christian child. No victim was identified, no body ever discovered, but all eight were convicted nevertheless on the strength of confessions obtained by torture. And all were burned at the stake.
In sum, Torquemada had over 2,000 heretics, Jews and Muslims burned by auto-da-fé, and perhaps 9,000 punished in other ways. "
(From catholic encyclopedia : At that time the purity of the Catholic Faith in Spain was in great danger from the numerous Marranos and Moriscos, who, for material considerations, became sham converts from Judaism and Mohammedanism to Christianity. The Marranos committed serious outrages against Christianity and endeavoured to judaize the whole of Spain. The Inquisition, which the Catholic sovereigns had been empowered to establish by Sixtus IV in 1478, had, despite unjustifiable cruelties, failed of its purpose, chiefly for want of centralisation. In 1483 the pope appointed Torquemada, who had been an assistant inquisitor since 11 February 1482, Grand Inquisitor of Castile, and on 17 October extended his jurisdiction over Aragon.)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14783a.htm
My comment -This sort of apologetic is typical of Christian Historians who through their own twisted view of the world & mangled logic are able to defend the " indefensible ".
For one thing The Christian Church was not threatened at that time in Spain . Secondly the statements made show how suscepible to the propaganda & ignorance & supertitious beliefs of virulent anti-semitism which has played a major role in Christianity since its very beginnings & was incorporated into Christian theology by the Church Fathers .
When it comes to the Church's silence while Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis the Catholic church & other Christian Churches have down-played their lack of action & offer some feeble half-assed apology is it because they still do not see that they too by their silence are also to a great degree guilty of Sins of Ommission at the very least .
See for instance : THE CRUCIFIED JEW : TWENTY CENTURIES OF CHRISTIAN ANTI-SEMITISM abook by Dan Cohn-Sherbok pub. 1992
GRAND INQUISTOR RUMSFELD PROUDLY SMILES BELIEVING HE IS DOING GOD'S WORK BY ORDERING OTHERS TO KIDNAP, DISAPPEAR , TORTURE & KILL ALL WHO WILL NOT SUBMIT TO GOD & DIVINELY GUIDED AMERICA.
HE HAS THE SAME BLIND FAITH AS HIS MENTOR TORQUEMADA & IS PROTECTED & DEFENDED BY KING BUSH !!!
Rumsfeld is a living example of " the Banality of Evil "
Just a bureaucrat in a nice blue suit doing his job !!!
CONDI'S PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AS SHE DISCOVERED IT IN THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS
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Rumsfeld's resignation is really just a bit of window dressing to appease the more gullible among America's public . This is just another trick in Bush's " dog & monkey show " or if you will just a piece of theatre to silence some of the administration's critics .
There has been no indication from Bush or his administration that things are going to be different and so the kidnaping & disappearing & torture of detainees will continue.
The Blood-Bath that is Iraq will continue as Bush stays the course.
Bush again said Rumsfeld did a great job & that everyone agreed & that because of Rumsfeld the Taliban have been beaten in Afghanistan.
These assertions are not in tune with the reality that Afghanistan is a bloody mess & the Islamic extremists control large parts of the country & that warlords operate freely & the opium business is booming while most Afghans live in abject poverty .
But Bush Rumsfeld & many Americans never really cared about the people of Afghanistan anymore than they care about the Iraqi people .
DETAINEES SHOUTED AT; BEATEN ; NOT PERMITTED TO TALK OR PRAY & NOT PERMITTED TALK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE WHILE BEING HELD OR AFTER THEY ARE FEED -THIS WE ARE TOLD ARE THE SUPERIOUR WESTERN VALUES WE ARE BRINGING TO THE ISLAMIC WORLD
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AMERICAN JUSTICE AT WORK CONDI RICE EXPLAINS
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TORTURE CONTINUES AT QUANTANAMO & ELSEWHERE WITH REAL CHUTZPAH BUSH HAS MADE IT LEGAL
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The question is do Americans have a conscience or do they believe anything done in their name is ok by them . If their neigbor's kid dies in Iraq or if their neighbor is disappeared into the secret prison system & tortured that's ok as long as it is not them or their friends or relatives .
Since the election has reduced Republican control of the government then if Democrats are serious about change they should everyday stand up & demand that the Geneva Conventions be upheld in regard to " detainees" & that American laws in regard to suspects who are American citizens should have their rights respected as guarnteed by US law the Constitution & the Bill of Rights which Bush has & Rumsfeld have disregarded & defamed since 9/11 & further that Bush be made to relinguish those powers which he has amassed for the Executive in his move to give himself dictatorial powers equal to those likes of leaders who ruled with an Iron-Fist & jackboots such as Pinochet in Chile & Marcos in the Phillipines or Franco had over Spain or the ruthless Shaw of Iran or even Saddam himself & note all these dictators were supported by various American administrations .
It is time for the American people to show the world that they not only believe the principles of democracy which they refer to all the time but that they are willing to put these priciples into practice. This would mean extending human rights to everyone regardless of their social standing whether they are rich or poor of whatever their color or race or their religion or lack of religious belief or their gender or sexual preference . This would really require a New American Revolution in political & social terms so it is probably unlikely as the Elite would not allow it & as for the people they seem to be quite comfortable in their Zenophobia & their racism & bigotry .
Such a revolution would have to include investigating these war crimes & crimes against humanity & bringing all those to trial who are responsible for these crimes including senior staff members of the administration & those in other parts of the government who are also culpable whether they in the Pentagon or the CIA or Special forces or individual officers & soldiers or those who have been "contracted out" to perform such tasks who should have refused to obey such blatantly unethical immoral acts .
This would mean that Rumsfeld Condoleeza Rice ,Cheney & a host of others including President Bush would be forced to testify at their own trials for Crimes Against Humanity & try to defend their actions in the same way as Saddam has had to defend his actions & face the consequences. If this were followed through then we would know that the American people will insist on holding their leaders up to these higher standards of Democratic Principles & Human Rights & Ethical or Moral standards . ( yeah ! When Hell freezes over as they say)
Anyway , that's all for now
GORD.
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