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BUSH'S FRAT BOY APPROACH TO TORTURE
PAUL KRASSNER - I asked Sam Leff--given his background as an
anthropologist studying and writing about the hidden rituals of American
sadomasochism--for his take on the CIAs cover-up of torture videos.
"I have been watching with fascinated horror," he said, as America's S/M
patterns of culture have emerged into the open in the Abu Ghraib/Gitmo
Bush administration. "I've been flashing on some clear images of the
fratboy reality underlying the White House torture tape controversy."
"Picture this. Bush and Karl Rove sitting around a big plasma screen
(drinking beer?) and laughing their asses off watching helpless
prisoners drowning under a waterboard, or naked getting cigarette burns,
or maybe having analgesic balm applied to their genitals.
"Once the existence of the tapes became known, their cover story is that
they were having a big discussion about whether or not to keep or
destroy the torture tapes. Like that old pervert, J. Edgar Hoover, the
reality is they were getting off looking at them as sadistic porn--over
and over. Perhaps sharing them with the frat brothers of their inner
circle."
Indeed, in November 2005, Garry Trudeau was queried by Editor &
Publisher about his Doonesbury strip the previous Sunday which had
George Bush defending the branding of Yale University fraternity
initiates with a red-hot coat-hanger in 1967, and Trudeau replied that
it was "totally fact based. Bush's comment in panel seven is a direct
quote." He was referring to the collegiate Bush saying, "Insignificant!
There's no scarring mark physically or mentally!"
Some pledges told the Yale Daily News that their branding was preceded
by a physical beating. Said one: "By that time, my body was so numb
[from the beatings] that the iron felt good, like a match was being held
close to my body." Bush, who was president of the fraternity, said that
the resulting wound was only a cigarette burn. Or maybe enhanced
pledging technique.
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BUSH'S FRAT BOY APPROACH TO TORTURE
PAUL KRASSNER - I asked Sam Leff--given his background as an
anthropologist studying and writing about the hidden rituals of American
sadomasochism--for his take on the CIAs cover-up of torture videos.
"I have been watching with fascinated horror," he said, as America's S/M
patterns of culture have emerged into the open in the Abu Ghraib/Gitmo
Bush administration. "I've been flashing on some clear images of the
fratboy reality underlying the White House torture tape controversy."
"Picture this. Bush and Karl Rove sitting around a big plasma screen
(drinking beer?) and laughing their asses off watching helpless
prisoners drowning under a waterboard, or naked getting cigarette burns,
or maybe having analgesic balm applied to their genitals.
"Once the existence of the tapes became known, their cover story is that
they were having a big discussion about whether or not to keep or
destroy the torture tapes. Like that old pervert, J. Edgar Hoover, the
reality is they were getting off looking at them as sadistic porn--over
and over. Perhaps sharing them with the frat brothers of their inner
circle."
Indeed, in November 2005, Garry Trudeau was queried by Editor &
Publisher about his Doonesbury strip the previous Sunday which had
George Bush defending the branding of Yale University fraternity
initiates with a red-hot coat-hanger in 1967, and Trudeau replied that
it was "totally fact based. Bush's comment in panel seven is a direct
quote." He was referring to the collegiate Bush saying, "Insignificant!
There's no scarring mark physically or mentally!"
Some pledges told the Yale Daily News that their branding was preceded
by a physical beating. Said one: "By that time, my body was so numb
[from the beatings] that the iron felt good, like a match was being held
close to my body." Bush, who was president of the fraternity, said that
the resulting wound was only a cigarette burn. Or maybe enhanced
pledging technique.
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