Question brought about by all the death threads

[Desslok]

Is there a formal school somewhere that teaches a person how to torture? I mean you see all these movies and tv shows and they have "professionals"(ie 24,True Lies etc) Is that just Hollywood?

 

[PsychoAndy]

Join the Army, and join something like Special Ops, Intel, or PsyOps, and you could probably attend a school for it. Other than that, no, unless there's some Ex-KGB torture school in the middle of russia.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Desslok
Is there a formal school somewhere that teaches a person how to torture? I mean you see all these movies and tv shows and they have "professionals"(ie 24,True Lies etc) Is that just Hollywood?

No, it just requires a certain state of mind, and a lot of practice. Just imagine what you'd want to do with someone who'd rape your gf/wife/daughter/other person you care about, and then imagine how good you could get at that if you'd like doing it and just hunt down all of those bastards.

Edit: CIA/FBI/Special Services probably have special secret classes for a selected group of people too, but those may be a bit hard to enter for normal people.

 

[Desslok]

Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Join the Army, and join something like Special Ops, Intel, or PsyOps, and you could probably attend a school for it. Other than that, no, unless there's some Ex-KGB torture school in the middle of russia.

If there was a school like that wouldn't it public knowledge by now?

 

[Bulk Beef]

School of the Americas is what you're looking for.

 

[Desslok]

Originally posted by: sward666
School of the Americas is what you're looking for.

Ahh good point I forgot about that.

 

[Bulk Beef]

I don't think they're accepting applications for the fall semester. Maybe next spring?

 

[Desslok]

Originally posted by: sward666
I don't think they're accepting applications for the fall semester. Maybe next spring?

COOL! what are the pre req's?

 

[wnied]

Usually the individuals carry their skills from service to service training other individuals in this "unclean" skill.

All services use it, and almost always never talk about it.
~wnied~

 

[tcsenter]

Is there a formal school somewhere that teaches a person how to torture? I mean you see all these movies and tv shows and they have "professionals"(ie 24,True Lies etc) Is that just Hollywood?

First of all, there is an expansive range of opinion on what exactly constitutes "torture". Some fruit-pies will define as "torture" any conditions which fall short of the treatment one might expect to receive as a guest of the MGM Grand's Presidential Suite. There is a difference between inhospitable or "tough" conditions and torture, although you'd never convince the fruits at Amnesty International of this.

If you are using Hollywood as your basis, then yes that is just Hollywood.

Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Chicago police detectives in the 1940's routinely used more brutal torture methods than our military ever has. The militaries of other countries are rather notorious for their torture, not the United States. While our soldiers were being electrocuted, beaten, starved, hog-tied, strung from rafters, and killed in North Vietnamese POW camps, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong POW's were being held in comparatively humane conditions. Some one should have offed that bitch Jane Fonda the moment she stepped foot back in the states.

The military has taken a more scientific approach to extracting information without brutal methods, conducting studies of psychology, psychopharmacology, sleep deprivation, ploys, and "hard" interrogation methods that fall well short of the "torture" which are condoned if not celebrated in other countries.