Nonilex<p>The goal is always the same, though: To use <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisoners</span></a>’ bodies as weapons of political war & to do so against their will.</p><p>This is what evil, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illiberal</span></a> regimes do.</p><p>Liberal regimes have standards for the treatment of prisoners. These standards are codified under the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GenevaConventions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenevaConventions</span></a>, which the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> has signed & ratified.</p><p>Among the standards dictated by the Geneva Conventions is this: Prisoners may not be publicly exploited for purposes of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p>The use of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisoners</span></a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> is as old as war itself. But there are a few recent examples you may recall. ISIS made extensive use of videos & pictures of imprisonment & execution. The Viet Cong & North Vietnamese alternated their approach. Sometimes they used American POWs as props to suggest that all was well in their camps & prisoners were being treated properly. (They were not.) Other times, they used images of American prisoners as tools to spread <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a>.…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a></p>
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