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MORE PUNISHMENT Arm the officials with police batons and stun guns. If players violate the rules (which should be as vague as possible), they should be handcuffed and forced into excruciatingly uncomfortable positions. To keep players on their toes, capriciously respond to trivial infractions (like illegal motion) with the bastinado or mock executions...
...Juan Carlos' seemingly genuine wish to liberalize political life. This is in part because the notorious Guardia Civil, the most feared of Spain's law-enforcement agencies, is virtually a law unto itself in the four Basque provinces. One common torture method used by the Guardia is bastinado, the continual flogging of the soles of the feet with a rubber truncheon...
...young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam back with coins between their teeth. Stray cows poked their noses into ruins that Du Camp was conscientiously measuring. It was fun to discuss theology with prelates of obscure religions, or the technique of the bastinado with corrupt judges (it takes three months for the flesh of the rump to heal after 500 blows; feet never heal at all). Indiscriminate sex was even greater fun for the young men, though the reader may be slightly bemused by the amount of it included in the book. Flaubert's fleshly...
VVhile Turkish cops without a search warrant ransacked Sergeant King's house under the terrified eyes of his wife and children, King himself was taken not to jail but to the stable dungeon. There, says King, he was introduced to an old Turkish custom: the bastinado. As he hung head down from a rafter, two Turks took turns beating the soles of his bare feet with a "rubber or leather stick...
They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind. In the free U.S., anybody can speak his mind against the income tax. Few spoke loud enough to be heard...