Ephraim said:
More than anything, I am concerned with Obama’s choice of Leon Panettan as CIA Director. I hear he wants to remove all of Bush’s interogation policies and replace them with tickle fights.(Don’t get me wrong, tickle fights can be a lot of fun, but they don’t work well for information gathering purposes.)
ACTUALLY:
Evidence of tickle torture
There are a small number of documented instances of tickle torture. They happened in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in these instances restrained victims were tickled upon the bare soles of their feet, apparently against their will and for the pleasure of their tormentors. In one instance the victim, a spouse that the torturer had found troublesome, became insane and was subsequently confined.[citation needed]
There is currently no evidence that tickle torture was ever widespread or was practiced by governments. The very small amount of related documentation discovered thus far is all from England and America.
First, ‘Orrible Murder: An Anthology of Victorian Crime and Passion Compiled from the Illustrated Police News (by Leonard De Vries, published by Book Club Associates in London in 1974) (pp 73-4) reissued a news item first published in the Illustrated Police News on December 11, 1869: ‘A Wife Driven Insane by Husband Tickling Her Feet.’ The account states that Michael Puckridge had previously threatened the life of his wife, described as “an interesting looking young woman.” Puckridge tricked his wife into allowing herself to be tied to a plank. Afterward, “Puckridge deliberately and persistently tickled the soles of her feet with a feather. For a long time he continued to operate upon his unhappy victim who was rendered frantic by the process. Eventually, she swooned, whereupon her husband released her. It soon became too manifest that the light of reason had fled. Mrs. Puckridge was taken to the workhouse where she was placed with the other insane inmates.” (page 74) The husband was given away by Mrs. Puckridge’s niece who was aware of the torture and spoke to neighbors about it. The article does not say if Puckridge confessed his crime to the niece after the deed was done, or if the niece actually watched the feather relentlessly scraping away at her aunt’s soles, and ultimately, her sanity.
Second, a Sunday, September 6, 1903, special to the New York Times included a small item on its first page (page 1, no byline), “Treated Patient Brutally.” At the Hudson River State Hospital, one suicidal patient, John Hayes, was immobilized on a bed for his own safety. While he lay helpless, the patient’s woes were multiplied by one of the hospital attendants, Frank A Sanders. “Sanders is said to have confessed that while intoxicated he amused himself by tickling the feet and ribs of Hayes and pulling his nose.” (page 1) Sander’s also gave his restrained victim a black eye. Another hospital employee came upon Sanders while he was entertaining himself at his patient’s expense, and the criminal was brought before a grand jury.
The third instance of documentation is found in David Ker’s New York Times article, “England in Old Times” (page 11 of New York Times, November 13, 1887), where Ker writes, “Gone, too, are the parish stocks, in which offenders against public morality formerly sat imprisoned, with their legs held fast beneath a heavy wooden yoke, while sundry small but fiendish boys improved the occasion by deliberately pulling off their shoes and tickling the soles of their defenseless feet.”
Tickle Torture works!!
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_tortur…_tickle_torture
another no no in terms of credible sources but time is worth more than credibility