SPEAKING OF BURNING HUMANS - actual ones, as opposed to ones who existed only in Alex's imagination - in the late 1970s, a left-wing Filipino journalist named Satur Ocampo was arrested in Manila by President Ferdinand Marcos' soldiers. He was manacled, blindfolded and electrocuted, while soldiers poured cola on him {which apparently makes the electrocution more painful}. His nipples and genitalia were burned. He survived, but thousands of Marcos' other enemies were "salvaged," Marcos' term for torturing and mutilating them before dumping them on a roadside for public display. Ferdinand Marcos was a client of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone's lobbying firm. He paid it an annual retainer of $950,000 to "tamp down concerns about {his} human rights record," according to Politico magazine's Kenneth P. Vogel. Anti-elitism was Alex's thing, but all that seemed pretty elitist to me. Did Alex care about that?
( Jon Ronson )
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