America's Unethical Medical Torturers.

March 10, 2010 at 10:39 A.M. "Errors" inserted and corrected.

March 8, 2010 at 3:51 P.M. As a way of expressing contempt for those concerned about medical abuses, rapes, and tortures of detainees, the following so-called advertisement was attached, illegally, to this site:

"Cia [sic.] Interrogation, Interview Room Software, Mics [sic.] Crime Scene Pics [sic.] Case Management. http://www.interrogationsoftware.com/ "

March 4, 2010 at 7:48 A.M. "Errors" inserted overnight will now be corrected.

Monica Scislowska, "Newfound Documents Shed Light on Lives of Notorious Death-Camp Doctors," in The Star Ledger, March 23, 2010, at p. 2. (Rationales strikingly similar to those offered today by America's torture doctors, like "Dr." Terry Tuchin, were provided by Horst Fischer, Fritz Klein, and Josef Mengele.) Leonard Rubenstein & Stephen N. Xenakis, "Doctors Without Morals," in The New York Times, March 1, 2010, at p. A27. (America's torture doctors.)

Adam Liptak, "Supreme Court Refuses to Rule on Chinese Uighurs Held at Guantanamo," in The New York Times, March 2, 2010, at p. A16. (Detainees that the U.S. admits pose no threat to America and are held in error will not be released because no one can figure out where to send them -- New Jersey?)

"After five years of investigation, the Justice Department has released its findings regarding the government lawyers who authorized waterboarding and other forms of torture during the interrogation of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. The report's conclusion, the lawyers exercised 'poor judgment' but were not guilty of professional misconduct, is questionable at best. Still, the review reflects a commitment to transparent investigation of professional behavior." (internal quotes added)

What is missing from professional ethics proceedings is precisely "transparency," at least in New Jersey. Secrecy is the order of the day as the actions and reports of self-styled physicians and torturers' assistants are denied to victims of heinous abuses -- abuses including sexual assaults, illegal searches of home and office, solicitation of grievances against politically-targeted attorneys, slanders and other actions aimed at the destruction of personal relationships and the infliction of long term emotional as well as financial harm. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

Much of this criminal activity -- often done secretly without recourse to notice, confrontation or cross-examination for the victim -- is denied publicly by the institutions and corrupt officials making use of these methods, sometimes for personal gain in the form of thefts. ("An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System" then "American Doctors and Torture.")

"In contrast [,] the government doctors and psychologists who participated in and authorized the torture of detainees have escaped discipline, accountability or even internal investigation." (emphasis added)

Rumors that Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, New York, N.Y. has pioneered some of the techniques of psychological torture -- thanks to experiments on the "little brown people" in Latino neighborhoods in Washington Heights -- remain unconfirmed. It is likely that some of these distinguished professionals in the medical sciences have visited my sites and will be found to have participated in debates with me. Unfortunately, they have not done very well in these exchanges. What is more, I will do my best to locate these "medical professionals" soon, naming them and offering these doctors the opportunity to defend their views, publicly. ("What is it like to be tortured?")

Please see Robert Whitaker, "America's Concentration Camps," in Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (New York: Perseus, 2002), pp. 66-72. (Mentally ill women are raped about as frequently as female inmates are sexually violated in prisons, often with the assistance of American medical personnel.) See also David Kaiser & Lovisa Stannow, "The Rape of American Prisoners," in The New York Review of Books, Issue 77, March 10, 2010, at p. 16. (Systematic rape and sexual assault of inmates -- especially, all women -- in American prisons and jails.)

"It is hardly news that MEDICAL STAFF at the C.I.A. and the Pentagon played a critical role in developing and carrying out torture procedures. Psychologists and at least one doctor designed or recommended coercive interrogation methods including sleep deprivations, stress positions, isolations [including social isolation through destruction of familial relationships, as I say,] and waterboarding. [Choking.] The military's Behavioral Science Consultation Teams evaluated detainees, consulted their medical records to ascertain vulnerabilities and advised interrogators when to push harder for intelligence information." (emphasis added)

This news is greeted with horror and disgust all over the world because it places America's medical profession on the level of Josef Mengele in terms impositions of horribly painful processes on innocent persons-patients for the purpose of extracting information -- or other goals of the physician -- that have nothing to do with the welfare of victims. Slavery?

Adding the fig leaf of a cynical phrase like "it's for your own good" to this evil makes things worse. Again, this is not about an isolated instance of wrongdoing. What is revealed by Guantanamo is a policy of torture and rape that has been worked out by medical professionals operating with the secret blessings of the U.S. government over several decades, a policy long predating 9/11.

The torture scandal has underscored for the world the moral bankruptcy of America's rampant scientism, rejection of religious or ethical values, and the moral as well as intellectual decline of what once were "learned professions" -- law and medicine -- in the United States of America. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")

" ... When the C.I.A.'s inspector general challenged these enhanced interrogation methods, the agency's Office of Medical Services was brought in to determine, in consultation with the Justice Department, whether the techniques inflicted severe mental pain or suffering, [hurting family members, especially children, is usually an excellent technique of control, "pain and suffering" is] the legal definition of torture. Once again, doctors played a critical role, providing professional opinions that no severe pain or suffering was being inflicted."

These medical opinions that "torture is good for people" are available for a small fee from doctors sporting expensive suits and new Mercedes Benz automobiles. Terry, you drove a black Mercedes, I believe. I remember that vehicle parked by my office when you stopped by on Fridays, after you thought that I had left the premises. Remember? Were you going through the files in my office, Terry? Breach of fiduciary relations, entry by deception, theft, violations of privacy? Did you misrepresent or lie about your status and authority, Terry Tuchin? Did Diana also misrepresent her credentials to persons in my office and others? What the hell, right Terry? How many other N.J. lawyers and their clients have been targeted in such ways over a period of years? Are all such targets minority attorneys disliked by powerful politicians and/or judges, Terry? Who was paying you, Terry, and for what services were you paid? How much was stolen from my office in total?

"According to the Justice Department memos released last year, the medical service opined that sleep deprivation up to 180 hours didn't qualify as torture. It determined that confinement in a dark, small space for 18 hours a day was acceptable. It said detainees could be exposed to cold air or hosed down with cold water for up to two thirds of the time it takes for hypothermia to set in. And it advised [that] placing a detainee in handcuffs attached to a ceiling, then forcing him to stand with his feet shackled to a bolt in the floor, 'does not result in significant pain for the subject.' ... " ("Nihilists in Disneyworld" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

I have no doubt that each of these methods will be used against American service people and civilians in the next decade. Furthermore, it is likely that such experiences will be filmed for the benefit of a global audience that will be invited to decide whether, in fact, such experiences are "painful" for victims. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Many of the professionals rationalizing these methods and seeking to cover them up, sadly, are American Jews. ("Barack Obama and 'The New Yorker.'")

It is a "real job" torturing people, right "Dodi"? How often are sexual assaults part of the experience? Was I subjected to an exceptionally long-lasting and heinous ordeal because of my independence and political opinions? Is it my intelligence and learning, such as they are, that are particularly offensive to American bigots in judicial robes? I think so. ("Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal.")

" ... C.I.A. and Pentagon interrogators used a broad array of stresses in combination on detainees. Sleep deprivation, [hunger,] he said, with pain-inducing positioning, intimidation, [threats, constant insults, threats to family members, financial hardships, denials of recognition, disconfirmation of identity, refusal of access to forms of self-expression and communication, sexual assaults and humiliations, guilt- and frustration-inducement] and a host of other stresses, would probably exhaust the body's defense mechanisms, cause physical collapse and worsen existing illness. And that doesn't begin to acknowledge the dire" -- and life-long -- "psychological consequences." ("Morality Tale" and "How Censorship Works in America.")

"The shabbiness of the medical judgments, though[,] pales in comparison to the ethical breaches by the doctors and psychologists involved. Health professionals have a responsibility extending well beyond nonparticipation in torture; the historic maxim is, after all, 'First do no harm.' These health professionals did the polar opposite."

Some of these "doctors" even rape their victims who are placed under a hypnotic trance, or do worse harm, while stealing jewelry or money. Right, Diana?

"Nevertheless, no agency -- not the Pentagon, the C.I.A., state licensing boards or professional medical societies -- has initiated any action to investigate, much less discipline, these individuals. [Police officers are put on trial and lose their jobs for less deplorable behavior.] They have ignored the gross and appalling violations by medical personnel. This is an unconscionable disservice to the thousands of ethical doctors and psychologists in the country's service. [Many of these ethical doctors are Jewish Americans.] It is not too late to begin investigations. They should start now."

Terry Tuchin, how does a Jew become Mengele? Stuart Rabner, how does a Jew become Eichman? Do you speak to me of "ethics," gentlemen? Are you my self-styled intellectual "superiors"? Philosophy Cafe? Has MSN Groups closed? Lulu? Publish America? ("How Censorship Works in America.")

No matter how often you insert "errors" in these essays, I will continue to rub your faces in the excrement that is New Jersey's legal system, state constitution, Supreme Court and judiciary. You sicken readers of these essays from all over the world. Have you no shame concerning the continuing use of these illegal tactics, Mr. Rabner? ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's Mafia Culture in Law and Politics.")