250 Arrested at Abortion Clinic
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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