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...Torture of a Prisoner Your piece on Iraqi prisoner Manadel Al-Jamadi, nicknamed the Iceman, who died at Abu Ghraib while in U.S. custody, should alert all conscientious Americans that a gestapo-style secret police is operating in our society [Nov. 21]. The CIA orders unannounced midnight abductions of suspected insurgents and tortures prisoners, sometimes to death. Your article should make all of us scream at our elected officials that Americans never condone torture in any form by anybody. Our government should do what its citizens want. I am afraid of what we would find if we opened...
Your piece on Iraqi prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi, nicknamed the Iceman, who died at Abu Ghraib while in U.S. custody, should alert all conscientious Americans that a gestapo-style secret police is operating in our society [Nov. 21]. The CIA orders unannounced midnight abductions of suspected insurgents and tortures prisoners, sometimes to death. Your article should make all of us scream at our elected officials that Americans never condone torture in any form, by anybody. Our government should do what its citizens want. I am afraid of what we would find if we opened up the can of worms that...
...Kawaller ’09) and Hans Scholl (Benjamin Curley) launch Resistance flyers from a University of Munich balcony. But the siblings can take no time to admire their papers as they float into the hands of curious students passing by, because they are immediately caught by the Gestapo...
...action thereafter is driven almost purely by dialogue. Sophie, Hans, and other student members calling themselves a part of “The White Rose” are interrogated at the Gestapo headquarters, where the slimy, power-hungry officer Mahler (Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08) persuades reluctant Gestapo Chief Mohr (W. Brian C. Polk ’09) to hold the captives indefinitely. Mohr, in fact, stays true to his promise and does not let his prisoners go free...
...words are idealistic but manage to genuinely ring true: About God and free will, these words are spoken with such inspired passion that they become chilling. It is difficult to leave the theater without goose bumps, and it is even more difficult to step out of that Gestapo Headquarter, Munich...