Don't apologise for length. Not with this.
A truly chilling, disturbing picture you paint there.

In reply to your later comment, I've been to Auschwitz and it was a time I will never forget. As you say, "The knowledge that human beings can kill their own, so very easily, and in such heinous ways, is hideous, and that day will stay vividly in my mind for the rest of my life."
(Jamie and his magic bat You can bump n' grind, it is good for your mind, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 16:29, Reply)