Recent content by Tom Kratman

Jack, probably because we live in an age of institutionalized fraud. That said, I think they were at least partly trying to draw a distinction between relatively light forms of torture and more serious ones (hot irons, the boot, strappado, finger nail pulling, bamboo shoots, electricity...you...

Actually, in the place where that line was used, it was the _bad_ guys threatening it, to the extent I distinguished between good and bad. I don't know how long ago you read it, but you are leaving out some context. Where the line was used, it was to threaten someone into giving up a nuclear...