Report to detail alleged abuse inside CIA secret prisons

Knowledge at Work
America is one of the most economically advanced countries. It is as said the democratic ideal that all countries strive to achieve; freedom to live and let live being her foundation. However this article is based on another side of the USA that gets hidden by the talks of personal liberty of speech and action, privacy and individuality.
The article is a news report based on the horrific behavior of CIA agents against caught terrorists. This is in complete hypocrisy to what the US law propagates of equality under the eyes of the law. The article expands on further on the incident it begins with where a CIA agent uses an electric drill and a gun to force information out of him. It then goes ahead to highlight different reactions in the Federal bureau upon hearing about this ruthlessness the police system. Various knowledge issues combine in the creation of this article. Although detached in its tone, several allusions betray a sense of disappointment yet at the same time the need to conceal the worst of the USA government. The most important of the knowledge issue I think the writer of the article highlight the fear that had been left after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade centre. The ruthlessness of CIA was started by the name of an interrogation program that was begun by the Bush administration. The fear of another plausible attack on the USA has made the interrogators to not only be cruel but also inhumane. Another important knowledge issue is the way in which this brutality has been tried to be kept under the mat. The way in which the writer talks about reports yet specifies the fact that they have not been released proves to show how under the full knowing of “just law” such cruelty is exists.
The writer also makes a claim to know the insights into the depth of the incident. However the writer himself does not know any specifics to this report. All it knows is the existence of a report thus how can this claim justified with proof? It is however not a bias claim as it is factual and it does criticize those CIA interrogators on such “endorsed behaviour. The foundation of the facts is a little shaky as it is based on unrevealed reports. The report also lacks in any emotion. It is true that since it is an article one’s own perception should be left behind but as a reader I want to know why these interrogators are not punished for such behaviour. For all its worth, being an Indian I am always being looked at as a terrorist because of the colour of my skin, I could easily be trapped in a situation and be abused without charge. This phenomenon is seen in the movie Khuddha Kai Liye where consistent torture broke the protagonist in such a way that he wanted to become a terrorist. So the writer should have extrapolated on the injustice of this. As the media they have the right to question and via doing so put pressure on their government to take action. The writer is also taking for granted the fact that the US government is doing something about the issue. The fact that the issue is so hushed up shows that there is much more to the incident than what has been leaked out. Other than this the writer has, with whatever information available, managed to convey partially managed to convey the truth behind the CIA headquarters.
Even if there is a lack of sources regarding the incident that had taken place, the knowledge issue does serve to remind us about how even in a democratic country like America, one cannot be safe. Innocent until proven guilty is a famous proverb that applies in every context. Here however innocence does not matter. The fear of having another attack like 9-11 has made the interrogators ruthless. Their emotions have taken oven their reason. Such illogical behaviour can affect the lives of anyone of us. We see us Indians getting checked at USA airports exhaustively on the terms of a “random search”. If it is random then why are there only black and brown skinned people in the special security check line. Also it affects us in the sense the hatred that has spread in the minds of some Americans has become so dominant that their allegations of being a terrorist are baseless. Innocent people can be tortured so badly that admit into being a terrorist. This misfortune can be destiny of my family, friends or even me!

Are humans superior to animals?

REFLECTION- class 29th July

As the human population grows, multiplying faster than bacteria, airs about human strength and omnipresence plagues a human’s mind. People now believe that they are unstoppable. They teach to the newer generation that no mammal in the world is as clever as they are and thus they have the right to exterminate anything that is below them or tag things as worthy, useless etc. But what really baffles me is how can they think that when they know nothing of world beyond the walls of their body. A human’s perception depends on what he or she can see, hear and feel. What if everything they have the illusion of knowing was wrong? What if they were the only soul in the world and everything else was just a fictional story from their imagination? Perception depends on the individual; no man has ever gone into the soul of a cat or a dog thus how can they conclude that they are better than the animals! There is so much that humans cannot phantom. For example dogs and cats can hear frequencies much higher than the range of humans and elephants hear and speak at such low frequencies that man cannot even hear them. In our limited vision and hearing abilities, is it right to even try and find differences between humans and animals. The truth is that we don’t even know what other species can do beyond just what we think thus with our limited knowledge we cannot term ourselves as superior