Thursday, March 17, 2005

Definition: Extraordinary Rendition

The outsource of torture. Torture by proxy. The act of relocating a human being from a nation which rules torture as illegal, to a nation which does not, for the explicit purpose of administering torture.

Utilised by an intrinsically hypocritical government bureaucracy in order to maintain a semblance of being fair and just, as measured by actions toward human beings. Paradoxically, the bureaucracy vaguely hints that this tactic is justified and necessary to win a war declared on, at best, a nebulous enemy, if not a noun.

The phrase in itself is a euphemism, tortured to the point of seemingly serving its intended purpose and yet, ultimately proving useless. A new level of irony. Funny, if not for the minds and bodies destroyed by it.