More Torturers at the Top to Govern You

The twig has appointed John Negroponte to be the America's first National Intelligence Director, a subdivision of Big Brother, who will know exactly where you are and what you're doing at all times, and it won't be pretty. (You watch: they'll start pushing for a national RFID card.) As U.S. ambassador to Honduras under ditzy Reagan in the early 1980s (Torture? I don't recall...), Big Tortureboy (as opposed to twig-appointed Gonzales, Little Tortureboy) reportedly collaborated with a top-secret Army death squad, known as Battalion 316, that kidnapped, tortured and killed whoever they thought needed it.

From the press at the time:

"Among the kidnapped were 14 who described their treatment in interviews with The Sun. Nine said members of Battalion 316 clipped wires to their genitals and sent electric currents surging through their bodies.

'They started with 110 volts,' said Miguel Carias, an architectural draftsman who was held captive with Nelson Mackay for a week in 1982. 'Then they went up to 220. Each time they shocked me, I could feel my body jump and my mouth filled with a metal taste.'

Former members of Battalion 316, interviewed in Canada where they are living in exile, described how prisoners were nearly suffocated with a rubber mask wrapped tightly around their faces. The mask was called 'la capucha,' or 'the hood.' Women were fondled and raped, the torturers said."

The twig keeps nice company. Tomorrow's America today.
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