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Sanity -> Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 11:09:56 AM)
quote: Centuries-old torture instruments for sale A New York auction house is selling a collection of what it claims are centuries-old torture instruments. "There is one pretty much to cause pain to any part of the body. It's fascinating but terrible." Mr Ettinger, estimating the collection to be worth three to four million dollars, said the devices date to the 17th century or earlier, and come with rare books showing "early engravings of scenes of torture." <snip> The items might have been constructed to deliver pain, but there is a plan to give some of the proceeds to Amnesty International so that their sale helps fight modern torture, Mr Ettinger said. This a hot topic in the United States where the former administration of George W. Bush is under fire for allowing water boarding and other so-called "enhanced" interrogation techniques. "Assuming that we will sell the collection, a portion of the proceeds will be going to Amnesty International and other organizations devoted to preventing torture in the future," he said. (Full article & photos here).

kittinSol -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 11:38:13 AM)
The link in the article between that auction and Bush's torturing ways is tenuous at best, isn't it.

Vendaval -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 11:49:26 AM)
I am surprised these items are not going to a torture museum, say the one in Amsterdam. http://photos.innersource.com/group/4916

kittinSol -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 11:50:47 AM)
And the top bidder is... Dick Cheney!!!

Sanity -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 11:59:41 AM)
Did you click through the photos? I saw a witch catcher, and an iron pear... Does anyone know what the long thin metal strap looking things are? Possibly a part of a cage of some kind? I couln't tell for sure.

DomMeinCT -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 1:12:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Did you click through the photos? I saw a witch catcher, and an iron pear... Does anyone know what the long thin metal strap looking things are? Possibly a part of a cage of some kind? I couln't tell for sure. It's all potentially inspirational material. g

marie2 -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 1:38:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Did you click through the photos? I saw a witch catcher, and an iron pear... Does anyone know what the long thin metal strap looking things are? Possibly a part of a cage of some kind? I couln't tell for sure. Holy shit. I saw the pics, but can't tell what each of them is for. Something tells me I'd just rather go to jail, or wasn't that an option back then?

popeye1250 -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 1:52:04 PM)
What would you rather do, be "waterboarded" or be audited by the I.R.S.?

marie2 -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 2:03:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 What would you rather do, be "waterboarded" or be audited by the I.R.S.? Ha! I'll take the torture.

Sanity -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 2:25:40 PM)
More information (probably too much information for the squeamish) on the items in the photos accompanying the article: Iron pear, or pear of anguish I was mistaken about what I called the witch catcher, it's actually called a Witch's spider. There was an item they called a witch catcher, which is discussed at length here. quote: ORIGINAL: marie2 Holy shit. I saw the pics, but can't tell what each of them is for. Something tells me I'd just rather go to jail, or wasn't that an option back then?

slaveboyforyou -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 2:40:58 PM)
quote: Holy shit. I saw the pics, but can't tell what each of them is for. Something tells me I'd just rather go to jail, or wasn't that an option back then? Nope, actually the concept of confinement being the punishment rather than what happened while you awaited punishment is a fairly modern idea. Guess who started it? AMERICANS! Yep, that's right. The Quakers in Pennsylvania came up with the concept of the penitentary. Penitentaries were places to give penitance. Before we had prisons, most punishments were either death, torture, dismemberment, or humiliation. In England, pick-pocketing was a hangable offense. The history of corrections is rather fascinating. (I started off as a criminal justice major in college, and later took it as my minor.)

marie2 -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 3:31:23 PM)
Sanity, thanks for those links, they were very informative. I had actually googled a bit but hadn't come up with much. It's really quite disturbing to imagine that this actually went on. It's not even so much the graphic details of these barbaric physical tortures, but worse yet....the "crimes" that people were punished for. Mind-blowing stuff.

marie2 -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 3:33:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou quote: Holy shit. I saw the pics, but can't tell what each of them is for. Something tells me I'd just rather go to jail, or wasn't that an option back then? Nope, actually the concept of confinement being the punishment rather than what happened while you awaited punishment is a fairly modern idea. Guess who started it? AMERICANS! Yep, that's right. The Quakers in Pennsylvania came up with the concept of the penitentary. Penitentaries were places to give penitance. Before we had prisons, most punishments were either death, torture, dismemberment, or humiliation. In England, pick-pocketing was a hangable offense. The history of corrections is rather fascinating. (I started off as a criminal justice major in college, and later took it as my minor.) I would imagine things like losing a hand would keep someone from stealing. Knowing that's the price to be paid, it's amazing that anyone would even take such a risk.

slaveboyforyou -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 3:58:14 PM)
quote: I would imagine things like losing a hand would keep someone from stealing. Knowing that's the price to be paid, it's amazing that anyone would even take such a risk. If you're desperate enough, you'll take all sorts of risks. 300 years ago, if you were living day to day and facing starvation, you might consider theft as a occupation worthy of consideration. I don't understand bank robbery in modern times; they almost always get caught, and it carries some heavy time in the Federal pen. I'm amazed by meth cooks in my own state; you can get a life term for cooking meth in this state, and our prisons are horrible. They are almost all plantation style prisons where you have to work out in the hot sun with a hoe (no tractors, they use horse and wagons) to get priviliges. If you refuse to work, they throw you in the hole. Prison is enough of a deterrent for me, but again I'm not a desperate addict or living in horrible poverty.

DavanKael -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/14/2009 4:47:20 PM)
Interesting marketing ploy to donate part of the proceeds to Amnesty International. Davan

calamitysandra -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/15/2009 10:30:16 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Does anyone know what the long thin metal strap looking things are? Possibly a part of a cage of some kind? I couln't tell for sure. It looks like a flogging device.

calamitysandra -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/15/2009 10:32:12 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: marie2 I would imagine things like losing a hand would keep someone from stealing. Knowing that's the price to be paid, it's amazing that anyone would even take such a risk. Well, if starving yourself, or watching your children starve is the other option, I can quite well see how people took the chance.

Vendaval -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (5/15/2009 12:22:22 PM)
That is my best guess as well. If someone did not die from the initial injuries blood poisoning and infections would likely kill them. quote: ORIGINAL: calamitysandra quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Does anyone know what the long thin metal strap looking things are? Possibly a part of a cage of some kind? I couln't tell for sure. It looks like a flogging device.

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pompeii -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (2/6/2010 4:03:47 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Iron pear, or pear of anguish Here's a picture of the pear of anguish in action ... http://www.pornle.com/infernalrestraints/thepear/

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