Monday, March 20, 2006  Alice Miller: The Origins of Torture
Exerpts from an article by world-renowned author and
psychologist Alice Miller: Many people have claimed to be
appalled by the acts of perversion committed by American
soldiers on ADULT people, Iraqi prisoners. . . .       In my
recent book . . . I pointed out that in 22 American states
children and adolescents can be beaten, humiliated, and
sometimes exposed to outright sadism without this having any
legal consequences. . . The scandal in Iraq shows what becomes
of these children when they reach adulthood. The perverted
soldiers are the fruits of an education that actively instills
violence, meanness, and perversion into young people.      It is
not true that we all carry in us the "beast," as some
psychological experts claim. Only people who were treated in a
perverse way, but deny the fact, will seek scapegoats on whom
they can unconsciously take out their rage, telling in
interviews they did it only "just for fun" (exactly as their
abusing "inn