1956 Biderman Report on Communist coercive methods
for eliciting individual compliance
Transcription posted below provided by Our Greater Destiny
CHART
Isolation
Monopolization of perception
Induced debility and exhaustion
Threats
Occasional indulgences
Demonstrate omnipotence
Degradation
Enforcing trivial demands
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Is This Torture?
Amazing Poly compared our present situation to the study of torture and coercion on Prisoners of War. Poly concluded that what we are being put through with the coronavirus response is a near perfect parallel to the Amnesty International definition of torture & Bidermans ‘Chart of Coercion.’
Amnesty International 1975 Report on Torture https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/204000/act400011975eng.pdf
“Does the handling of this coronavirus amount to torture?”
Poly takes us through evidence in a 1975 Amnesty International report where they took a deep look at torture. What constitutes torture, what torture does to people, and what methods actual torturers used in this thing called ‘no touch’ torture. It’s psychological torture, it’s mental torture and at the end we see that the question doesn’t have an easy answer. In fact some might conclude that yes, the responses to this coronavirus in many regions of the world do in fact amount to torture.
Excerpts from the 1975 Amnesty International Report on Torture.
Page 34 – Four elements of torture
1] There are certain essential elements which give torture its particular meaning and which should be incorporated in any comprehensive definition. In the first place the nature of torture assumes the involvement of at least two persons, the torturer and the victim, and it carries the further implication that the victim is under the physical control of the torturer.
2] The second element is the basic one of the infliction of acute pain and suffering. It is the means used by the torturer on the victim and the element that distinguishes him from the interrogator. Pain is a subjective concept, internally felt, but is no less real for being subjective. Definitions that would limit torture to physical assaults on the body exclude’ mental’ and ‘psychological torture, which undeniably causes acute pain and suffering, and must be incorporated in any definition.
The concept of torture does imply a strong degree of suffering which is ‘severe’ or ‘acute’. One blow is considered by most to be ‘ill-treatment’ rather than ‘torture’, while continued beatings over 48 hours would be `torture’. Intensity and degree arc factors to be considered in judging degrees
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3] There is implicit in the notion or torture the effort by the torturer, through the infliction of pain, to make the victim submit, to ‘break him’. The breaking of the victim’s will is intended to destroy his humanity, and the reaction to the horror of this finds expression in various human rights instruments in such phrases as ‘respect for the inherent dignity of the human person.
4] Torture implies a systematic activity with a rational purpose. The unwitting, and thus accidental, infliction of pain, is not torture. Torture is the deliberate infliction of• pain, and it cannot occur without the specific intent of the torturer. Inherent in this element of purpose are the goals or motives for employing torture, and while torture can be used for a variety of purposes, it is most generally used to obtain confessions or information, for punishment, and for the intimidation of the victim and third persons. The first two motives relate directly to the victim, while the purpose of intimidation, in wide use today as a political weapon, is intended to be a deterrent to others as well as the victim.
In those four elements we see where Amnesty International defines the boundaries and finally come up with a concrete definition they use for the remainder of the report as follows:
The definition of torture adopted here is:
Torture is the systematic and deliberate infliction of acute pain in any form by one person on another, or on a third person, in order to accomplish the purpose of the former against the will of the latter. More at https://www.bitchute.com/video/3yk3xezML8Q/