Wednesday, May 06, 2009



For sale in NYC: Torture devices from 16th century
AP

By RICHARD PYLE, Associated Press Writer Richard Pyle, Associated Press Writer – Wed May 6, 5:49 pm ET

NEW YORK – For sale soon: a variety of torture devices from the 16th century, including shame masks to enforce silence, a 14-foot table-like rack to stretch the victim's body, and a tongue tearer to punish blasphemers and heretics. Even an executioner's sword.

New York's Guernsey's auction house plans to auction the privately owned collection, with proceeds to go to Amnesty International and other organizations committed to preventing torture in today's world, said Guernsey's president, Arlan Ettinger. "That is clearly the seller's intent," he said.

... we hope a museum may buy them to "preserve history evidence" ...
... instead than some paranoids planning to "repeat history shame" ...
... this is not stuff that should be auctioned ...
... otherwise the spiritual heirs of the original users ...
... could buy them ...
... to "amend" history in their favor ...


# posted by intcoex : 7:29 PM




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