Inspiration for all torture victims.

IN THE NEWS:  Jeremiah Denton died.  Most have probably never heard of him, but Jeremiah Denton, despite his faults did provide inspiration to political prisoners and torture victims of the fascist state with his book "When Hell Is In Session".  I read it in the early/mid 1980s and found that my response and emotional reactions to torture were normal.  Of course the Cubans confirmed that for me when I was in Cuba.


Denton was part of the amerikan war machine and travelled half way around the world to carry out acts of war against a sovereign nation.  He knew he ran the risk of becoming a POW and a torture victim and I'm sure he had been well schooled in what to expect as a prisoner and that his captures were truly his enemies.  He endure only 7-8 years as a captive, but he always lived with the hope that the amerikan war machine would eventually liberate him and he could go back home and lead a comfortable, good life.  His freedom was not accomplished quit the way I'm sure he imagined it, but he did eventually become free from his captors and he did get to return to amerika and was well compensated by the war machine.   But his book which the fascist media readily published, did tell me what to expect from my captors and torturers and it gave me ideas and techniques as how to fight back effectively.  It is ironic that Denton's biggest achievement was writing a book on how all torture victims could react and fight when dealing with ideologically driven mad men.


My situation differed from Denton's in that I was not part of any war machine, I was in the country where I had been born and raised, and I was not at war with The Crazies or any other element of the fascist state when I became a political prisoner/torture victim.  And I had no reason to suspect I would become a torture victim and of course I had no training in dealing with the situation. Had I known the true nature of the fascist state, I would have fled the scene immediately and sought asylum in another country.  But I was kept a prisoner by years of indoctrination and lies about the amerikan system.  I was kept a prisoner by what psychologists call the Normalcy Bias.  I could not go against 30+ years of indoctrination and mind control.  I could not believe my life could be in jeopardy in such a wonderful system as amerika.  It went against every lie I had been told since the day I was born.  In effect, I was a "voluntary" prisoner.  Of course, being poor contributed greatly to my being a prisoner.
On thing I never mentioned is back in the late 1990s when I had some successful friends who were or had been businessmen or professionals in good paying jobs,  they all said without exception at one time or another that they were glad that they didn't have to start their life in today's society.  They all expressed regret about what amerika had become.  And the regrets they expressed were not the usual BS you read and hear about every day in the fascist media and from politicians.