Some present and former US soldiers say that being ordered to jail civilian hostages will pervert their sense of honor as soldiers, and that the practice will cause lasting problems.

What will soldiers do, having been placed in this moral contradiction by their commanders? Some will find ways to get out of the military. I fear that the rest will replace their sense of honor with cynicism, so that they will be able to commit any crime and feel nothing. Just as soldiers occupying Iraq and Afghanistan did, and do, dehumanize the occupied civilians so as to kill them with no guilt, these soldiers will learn to dehumanize immigrants, maybe all civilians.

I suspect the sadist and his advisors have discussed the matter and that that is one of the results they aim for.

"Hostility to migrants is not born of rising numbers but a failure of hope."

Hostility to immigrants comes from a society of distrust for institutions, and when all the major political parties are more or less plutocratist, that is sure to arouse distrust from the non-rich citizens that they harm.

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr revealed the election manipulation of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, and the manipulators are trying to punish her to teach everyone subservience.

When UK officials demanded answers from abu Zubaydah, they knew he was being tortured.

Reporter Peter Beaumont describes how officials of various levels told specific and general lies, for decades.

US immigration courts often require babies to represent themselves in court.