Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Steve Mynott wrote: > The British Army in Northern Ireland in the 1970s used to make alleged > IRA people stand with hoods on leaning against a wall listening to > white noise for long periods of time. When you collapse you are beaten. Just sit down and get it over with, y

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, cubic-dog wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > > At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > > >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. > > >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any > > experience >

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Gutmann
Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I read some books in my youth on SH and found I could put myself in a self- >induced altered reality state from which I could not be easily awakened. I've had that too, listening to pre-election party political broadcasts. >physical abuse might be thwart

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-26 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:00:59PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > It's not some New Age weekend camp when you imprisoned and beaten by > your captors. And, BTW, yoga is hardly New Age. It's quite ancient, precedes written history in fact. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybersha

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-26 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:00:57PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:18 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > > I've also worked with self hypnosis quite a bit, and it's useful, > >but I'll > >say again, anyone fairly adept at yogic meditation would not have much >

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:42 PM 11/25/2002 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:00:57PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:18 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Even if it were possible (which I doubt) what's the point in even > mentioning it since most people tortured ar

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:00:59PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > > > > Practioners of yoga should have a ball. Just another yogic > >meditation > >exercize. > > Neither of you appear to understand what psychological torture is. > > Read some of the reports on the web about what happens. > > Th

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
You probably should have tried it on about 5 (dried) grams of psilocybic mushrooms or a good dose of ayahuasca instead of the acid. They're both much more suited to dark and quiet while acid seems to really like light and music. Really very different things -- McKenna wrote quite a bit about th

sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mynott
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke nearly anyone. Noone has mentioned sleep deprivation which is supposed to be extremely effective, although with the potentia

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mynott
On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 21:14 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:58:55PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: I should think that a bit of practical training in self hypnosis could thwart sensory deprivation. I read some books in my youth on SH and found I could put mys

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any experience >with them) don't modify the experience a great deal either. Certainly not >to upset anyone this much, this f

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:58:55PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > At 07:00 PM 11/25/2002 +, you wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: > > > >>The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of > >>convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke > >>nearl

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread cubic-dog
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: > > > The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of > > convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke > > nearly anyone. > > Noone has mentioned sleep deprivation which is sup

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:00 PM 11/25/2002 +, you wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke nearly anyone. The effects are supposed to be a lot worse than you would imagine wh

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread cubic-dog
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. > >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any > experience > >with them) don't modify the experience a great de

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mynott
On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:18 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: I've also worked with self hypnosis quite a bit, and it's useful, but I'll say again, anyone fairly adept at yogic meditation would not have much problem with sensory or sleep deprevation torture techniques. Of course, be

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-24 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: > The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of > convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke > nearly anyone. Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. No big deal. Note that psychoactives

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: > > To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen > > Trott, speaking on September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth > > Club. Trott credits the torture warrant idea to Alan > > Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good fri

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: > To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen Trott, speaking on > September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth Club. Trott credits the torture > warrant idea to Alan Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good friend and a > "great civ

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-21 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:33 AM, Greg Broiles wrote: At 06:34 PM 11/20/2002 -0800, Lucky Green wrote: I recently obtained an illuminating recording of a speech by a judge sitting on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which was given before the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. In said

RE: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-21 Thread Greg Broiles
At 06:34 PM 11/20/2002 -0800, Lucky Green wrote: I recently obtained an illuminating recording of a speech by a judge sitting on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which was given before the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. In said recording, the honorable judge proposes the issuance of formal feder

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-21 Thread Adam Shostack
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:30:42PM -0800, Tim May wrote: | On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 12:49 PM, dmolnar wrote: | | >On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: | > | >>to have a big jpg of a hand with middle finger extended...) More than | >>this, | >>they will have unknowingly destroyed t

RE: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-21 Thread Lucky Green
Adam wrote: > The Russians, Americans and I believe others have moved from > physical to psychological methods which have proven to work > better than actual physical pain. I recall reading a story > on Abdul Murad, the Al Qaeda member arrested in 1995 in the > Philipines, where the way they f