{"id":81,"date":"2008-04-28T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2008\/04\/pluto-and-enhanced-interrogati.html"},"modified":"2008-04-28T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:46:00","slug":"pluto-and-enhanced-interrogati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2008\/04\/pluto-and-enhanced-interrogati.html","title":{"rendered":"Pluto and Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/astrotabletalk.blogspot.com\/\">Dharmaruci<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/27\/washington\/27intel.html?th&amp;emc=th\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Determining the legal boundaries for interrogating terrorism suspects has been a struggle for the Bush administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_5VOYKiE-zWY\/SBRtiO6ZbtI\/AAAAAAAAAwU\/VFIha0-_dcE\/s1600-h\/Euph.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_5VOYKiE-zWY\/SBRtiO6ZbtI\/AAAAAAAAAwU\/VFIha0-_dcE\/s320\/Euph.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This is Pluto in Capricorn: setting the boundaries (Capricorn) around torture (Pluto). I think it\u2019s also a measure of how hideous the present US administration is, that you end up with this sort of debate. It\u2019s like something from a horror spoof. <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s no surprise given that the 2005 Presidential Inauguration chart has a Mars-Pluto in Sag conjunction in the 8th House: secret (8th House) torture (Pluto) in a war of ideologies (Mars in Sagittarius). The 8th House suggests that while practices like waterboarding are being publicly debated, the CIA under Bush may well be getting up to much worse stuff that the legal system never gets to hear about.<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time, does the US do anything that other countries do not do? At least it is more out in the open and subject to public scrutiny, which I think is a good thing. Of course, it also means that some practices become formally legitimised and therefore more widespread. It\u2019ll be the local police force wanting to use waterboarding next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_5VOYKiE-zWY\/SBRt8u6ZbuI\/AAAAAAAAAwc\/A9YaT-FVarw\/s1600-h\/Euph2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_5VOYKiE-zWY\/SBRt8u6ZbuI\/AAAAAAAAAwc\/A9YaT-FVarw\/s320\/Euph2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It was the Gestapo, incidentally, who came up with the term &#8216;Refined Interrogation Techniques&#8217; as a euphemism for torture. The Bush administration also has &#8216;Special Methods of Questioning&#8217;, &#8216;Extraordinary Rendition&#8217; (for kidnapping), &#8216;Sleep Management&#8217; and &#8216;Stress Position&#8217;. The themes of political misuse of language and government control are central to George Orwell&#8217;s 1984, a book whose time may have come under Pluto in Capricorn. I&#8217;m not suggesting that society will end up fully like Orwell suggests it could, rather that these themes are likely to be strongly present and strongly debated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Dharmaruci From the New York Times: \u201cThe Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law\u2026 Determining the legal boundaries for interrogating terrorism suspects has been a struggle for the Bush administration.\u201d This is Pluto&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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