Adam Carolla Quotes
I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
Carolla, Adam. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy. Crown Archetype, 2010.
Both Puritans and Quakers were persecuted and physically abused in England by the Anglican Church. The Puritans as soon as they became dominant in part of the American colonies began persecuting Quakers. The Quakers who were the majority in the Pennsylvania colony, however were tolerant of other religions. This history was another of the many reasons the Founding Fathers wanted no established church. A “scorpion” was a type of whip that was particularly painful.
This is a particularly ironic quote. Although Arafat verbally and officially opposed torture, but used it frequently within the PLO and its “law enforcement” efforts amongst the Palestinians.
His opposition to slavery focused on the breakup of families and leaving the elderly, weak and inform to die. His view was similar to that of William Pitt.
The United States was deeply involved with the Philippine War where some Americans were court martialed for torture and atrocities against the Filipinos.
In 1831 a slave preacher, Nat Turner, led a rebellion in North Carolina killing over 50 whites. Even though Turner and the rebels were captured and executed, whites throughout the South, took vengeance on any slaves they could find. This description was of a North Carolina community.
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil. His voyage took him to several slave countries.
His voyage took him to several slave countries where his anti-slavery views were challenged by locals.
While there were atrocities committed by both sides in the Civil War, the proportion tended to be heavily weighted by Confederate perpetrations. The Confederate officers were not appointed by the command structure and under strict military discipline, but they were elected by the troops and could be so removed (except for the general officers who were appointed by the confederacy). Also, the confederate troops were not as well fed or supplied as the North and they had fewer resources with which to fulfill their obligations to prisoners. In a number of battles, ill-clothed soldiers stripped the Union dead, wounded and prisoners, often naked to use their shoes, blankets and clothing, Union prisoners of war were much more badly abused in the prisoners of war camps like Andersonville which were not under the command of Robert E. Lee.
To justify slaveholding in one’s own mind, religion, culture, values, concepts of write & wrong all have to be twisted and when a substantial group of people do that for a number of decades, the do not form a different race but they certainly do become a different cultural subgroup. The hypocrisy of slavery and a free society is the ultimate twist of logic. Also, many modern psychologists have analyzed the extremely cruel and inhuman tortures and punishment that slave owners meted out and observed as strongly suggested abnormally sadistic perversions present in so many.
See {637209} for an example. There was no government policy to commit war crimes nor was there any suggestion from the military command. Most of the worst cases were volunteer militia groups from the same geographic area. The political propaganda from President Polk, an inveterate racist, and other government and Congressional leaders created a classic atmosphere where soldiers get out of control. Specifically, that the enemy is a lesser human being not deserving the full rights and sympathies of a white man.
This was part of the continual conflict between the Muslims and the Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Greeks ended up doubling their territory.
A few American soldiers working as prison guards and interrogators at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq, with poor supervision and mixed signals from the generals and other officers, engaged in a variety of sordid, illegal abuse of Arab. Prisoners ranging from harassment to torture and murder. One activity involved putting a dog leash around the necks of Muslim naked prisoners who were forced to crawl around like a pet dog—hence the reference to a “leash”.
There were actually very few incidents of civilian resistance to the German invaders and occupiers. However, they were exaggerated and used as a pretext for what amounted to atrocities and war crimes against the Belgian Civilians.
Adam Carolla is an American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster. He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast which set the record as the "most downloaded podcast" as judged by Guinness World Records in 2011.
