Over the past 45 years, Chicago has been a prime example of official indifference and cover-up when it comes to prosecuting the police for wanton brutality and torture.
Torture and wanton killing not only were morally corrupting but corrupted discipline in a military organization.
Most of the young protesters in Shahbagh Square never lived under occupation or experienced the terror of midnight raids or the fear of rape, torture and wanton killing.
We don't have to see in the paintings or the photographs that they derive from the pathos that is peculiarly Catholic or even Christian to wonder how a civilization that for so long worshipped a God with ritualized re-enactments and art underscoring the inhumanity of man as an evil to be expunged, could produce such wanton pleasure in the torture and humiliation of other human beings.
Article 3, Violations of laws or customs of war: nine counts of murder; torture; cruel treatment; wanton destruction of villages or devastation not justified by military necessity; wilful destruction or wilful damage done to historic monument and institutions dedicated to education or religion; plunder of public or private property; and attacks on civilians.
Full of great storytelling, as well as knives to faces, torture, explosions, defenestrations and wanton sprayings with automatic weapons, Braquo is lean, tense and highly addictive.
But if states insist on executing their citizens with lethal injections, they are bound under the Supreme Court's 2008 Baze vs. Rees decision — which found Kentucky's three-drug sodium thiopental protocol constitutional — to use methods that do not involve a "substantial risk of wanton and unnecessary infliction of pain, torture, or lingering death".
In February 2006, State Department adviser Philip Zelikow warned the Bush administration that waterboarding and other torture techniques "would be deemed wanton and unnecessary and would immediately fail to pass muster unless there was a strong state interest in using them.
It is a terrifying lesson in the naked power of savage terror and brazen propaganda that sometimes the wanton destructiveness of tyranny -- the slaughter, torture and buffoonery -- are forgotten while the myth of glory enters the popular memory: Shelley's "Ozymandias" in reverse.
These included forced deportations of civilians, unlawful killings, torture, kidnapping harassment, rape and the wanton seizure or destruction of property.
