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On June 16 The Times reported that detainees in the Chinese Changchun trials were “led into police stations in the painful posture called ‘the airplane position’--arms wrenched behind and in the air.”
On June 11, The Times reported that in Los Angeles each of a group of protesters refusing to comply with police orders to walk to a Los Angeles Police Department bus was approached by two officers who applied to that person’s arms “a martial arts device composed of two pieces of wood connected with a chain or rope.” As reported, torque applied to the device “often caused pain to show on the face of the person being arrested and sometimes a cry or a loud sob” (was heard).
Aren’t we in danger of being accused of living in a glass house when we criticize other countries for some of their behavior?
LUCILLE K. FORER
Malibu
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