Shakespearean Daily Diss
“If th’ other two be brained like us, the
state totters.” —Tempest, 3.2.6-7
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Shakespearean Daily Diss
“It would become me
As well as it does you: and I should do it
With much more ease; for my good will is to it,
And yours it is against.” —Tempest, 3.1.29-32
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“But I prattle
Something too wildly and my father’s precepts
I therein do forget.” —Tempest, 3.1.57-59
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“Poor worm, thou art infected!” —Tempest, 3.1.31
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“Sit lazy by.” —Tempest, 3.1.28
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“Such baseness had never like executor.” —Tempest, 3.1.12
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“He’s compos’d of harshness.” —Tempest, 3.1.9
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Torturer
Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz described for Congress yesterday the years of torture and beatings he endured at the hands of US interrogators. As usual, this is only the tip of the iceberg:
While he was detained in Kandahar, Kurnaz testified, he was chained by his arms to the ceiling with his feet dangling and subjected to electric shocks. Kurnaz also alleges U.S. interrogators tried to force him to sign papers admitting his guilt…
While the CIA has admitted to waterboarding three al Qaeda detainees, the Justice Department inspector general’s report, released today, details other instances of detainees having water forced down their throats.
The report noted an instance from a 2004 interrogation of a detainee in Iraq.
“[An FBI Agent] recalled that, at some point during the interrogation, the military officer ‘put water down’ a seated detainee’s throat,” the report said. “He said he guessed that the purpose of the water was to give the detainee the sensation that he was drowning, so that he would provide the information that the interrogator wanted. [The agent] stated that the detainee was gagging and spitting out water. He said that the detainee appeared to be uncomfortable, and assumed that he had trouble breathing.”
This is what was done in our name. Though German intelligence had told American officials that Kurnaz was no terrorist, he was not released until 2006.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!”
—Tempest, 2.2.144
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“Doth thy other mouth call me?” —Tempest, 2.2.98
