ㅤ: Torture

Guantanamo Bay - Guantanamo Bay is a place in Cuba where the US is legally allowed to torture prisoners because it technically isn't on US soil. Torture methods include noise torture, sleep deprivation, forced feeding through tubes, restriction, isolation and medical neglect. Obama promised to shut it down but never did.

Bobby Fischer - Bobby Fischer was a chess champion who was sponsored to play the Soviets during the cold war. Despite his Jewish heritage, he was flagrantly critical of the US, Israel and Jewish supremacy in general. In 1981, California police mistakenly arrested him because he allegedly resembled a local bank robber. He was held in a detention cell for 48 hours before being released on bail and ultimately cleared of any involvement in the crime.

In 2004, Fischer was arrested at Narita International Airport for trying to board a flight with an invalid US passport. He spent eight months in a Japanese detention center, including a brief stint in solitary confinement following an argument over a hard-boiled egg. After granting him citizenship, Iceland sent a delegation to rescue him. In 2005, Fischer boarded a grueling, nearly 24-hour flight from Tokyo to Reykjavík. He landed looking gaunt, haggard, and unkempt; he himself claimed he had been abducted and tortured.

Dan Miltrone - Dan Mitrione was Chief of Police in Richmond, Indiana. He joined USAID branch, the Office of Public Safety, where he was assigned to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he trained police officers in torture, both physical and psychological. His methods included playing audio of screams next door, telling prisoners it was their families; electroshock torture and ball torture.

Mitrione went rogue, building a sound-proof room in his cellar to torture and ultimately murder kidnapped female beggars, demonstrating the effects to other officers. The OPS provided training for 1 million policemen throughout the developing world.

Torture by the illegally US funded Contras

Torture in US backed Argentina

Torture during the Vietnam War

Iraq War - Torture - In 2004, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, a senior officer in charge of the Abu Ghraib prison, testified at a military court hearing, that an Arabic-speaking Israeli interrogator came and spoke to her at an intelligence facility in Baghdad.

Several individuals, including Eric Fair, a contract interrogator for the private firm CACI at Abu Ghraib, have alleged that US interrogators were trained to use a torture device known as the Palestinian chair, designed to restrain prisoners in painful postures.

Other torture methods included sleep deprivation, hooding, sensory bombardment, rape, contact with human experiment and the pouring of phosphoric acid on detainees.

According to public lectures and findings reported by journalist, Seymour Hersh, women were occasionally arrested and held alongside their young children. In specific recorded instances, boys were subjected to severe physical abuse and sodomy; the resulting soundtrack of the children shrieking was subsequently played back to their mothers to force them to cooperate when other interrogation methods failed.

The context of this famous picture is that they told him he would be shocked if he fell off of the box. This was used as a method of sleep deprivation.