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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3341 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Rendered Christopher T. George "[At] a factory in New Jersey ... books are boiled in great big vats..." Andrei Codrescu, The Disappearance of the Outside "In recent years, well over 100 people have disappeared or been "rendered" [by the CIA]. . . Some are taken to prisons infamous for torture. And a few may have been rendered by mistake." CIA Flying Suspects to Torture? CBS News The writer joked about bubbling vats where books are rendered to pulp in Jersey, home of five signers of the Declaration of Independence, Woodrow Wilson and Walt Whitman. While Walt tended to wounded boys below the scales of Judiciary Square, soldiers camped in the U.S. Capitol; wagons hauled papers of the founders down to the Potomac to be dumped. Just as nags are knackered into glue, war's machine renders soldiers to pulp; suspects are broken by lash and fist, and electrodes applied to genitals by men in black masks and gloves. Words of love and freedom make us firm in the melée of battle, the hardest of times, in the blizzards of doubt: the last words on the lips of a man, his gurgles of twenty years before. |
