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Then there is the method of simply compelling a prisoner to stand there. This can be arranged so that the accused stands only while being interrogated - because that, too, exhausts and breaks a person down. It can be set up in another way - so that the prisoner sits down during interrogation but is forced to stand up between interrogations. (A watch is set over him, and the guards see to it that he doesn't lean against the wall, and if he goes to sleep and falls over he is given a kick and straightened up.) Sometimes even one day of standing is enough to deprive a person of all his strength and to force him to testify to anything at all.

That's taken from Solzhenytsen's classic, "The Gulag Archipelago," and it describes a technique often used in Soviet secret prisons. His book once was considered required reading by conservative Republicans who saw its horrific depictions of torture as emblematic of what this nation was opposed to.

Now head on over to Anderw Sullivan's site and take a look at what your government is doing in your name. It's not just that its close to what Solzhenytsen described. It is identical.