It may look like a manual for fetishists, designed by a down-on-his luck coloring book designer. But, really, it's a "visual language survival guide," used by coalition soldiers and contractors in Iraq.
A company named Kwikpoint makes them, and the military hands them out to personnel. The guides help English-speaking personnel communicate with prisoners, would-be-detainees, interrogatees, and so on. Don't speak Farsi or Arabic? Need to tell a prisoner to drop trou and get horizontal beneath your boot, pronto?
Strange, strange stuff. Be sure to catch the "two-part diagram where a man is asked to remove his toupee so the interrogator can determine whether or not any weapons are stashed beneath."
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This is sick, really. I understand that each person has the right to protect himself, and better safe than sorry, but still there are limitations, there are red lines, and there should be some respect.
And who can stop them? Human right does not exist anymore. That a talk of history!