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Originally posted by Fljotsdale:
Not sure if this should be in here or in GD, but I found the following in a magazine dated Nov 8th 2002. The newspaper the info is taken from is not dated, but I know from experience with this mag that it will have been during the last 6-12 months:
"Trade in tools of torture is on the rise," says an article in the German newspaper Sudwest Presse. According to .. Amnesty International, 150 companies around the world have allegedly joined this gruesome trade, including 30 in Germany and 97 in the United States. Their wares include .. leg irons and serrated thumb cuffs .. high voltage electroshock devices .. remotely controlled belts that send up to 50,000 volt electric shocks through the victims body. Such high-tech tools are preferred by torturers, since they hardly leave any traces on their victims.
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I think this is appalling! Do you think, as I do, that the manufacture of such devices should be banned by law? At present, our goverments ALLOW it, for pete's sake! 
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Yes, I do most strongly believe that they should be banned. If you go to an arms fair, you can see them laid out and choose which will do the job most efficiently. We had an arms fair in the Docklands around the time of the Sept 11th bombing, just afterwards, if I remember rightly. It went ahead as planned, amidst much protest by many more enlightened human beings, who do not believe that the torture of their fellow human beings is the way forward.
I believe the sale of such instruments should be banned globally. Companies selling them should be prosecuted and their assets disposed of to the public good upon proof positive being supplied of traffic. We supply these foul goods to regimes all over the world, - it is disgusting, appalling, nauseating madness.
The fact that WE, in the democratic West make fortunes out of torture instrument sales (not to mention the billions spent on arms and related) makes a mockery of our claims of being a 'superior society (as Berlusconi recently claimed and as so many on this board are claiming every day.) Wipe out this EVIL trade, I say!! We are less than human until we do.
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