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The Abu Ghraib prison complex had multiple sections, and the abuse took place in the section holding ordinary Iraqi criminals rather than the terrorist POWs. When you do a military occupation of a country, you take over normal law enforcement as well.
(The Abu Ghraib prison complex had multiple sections, and the abuse took place in the section holding ordinary Iraqi criminals rather than the terrorist POWs. When you do a military occupation of a country, you take over normal law enforcement as well.) |
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** Autoimmune disorders (most famously, lupus), which is when the immune system views a part of its own body as a foreign invader and attacks it as it would a pathogen or allergen.
* In Japanese mythology, a person who kills many [[Youkai]] will be transformed into a youkai. This occasionally gets played around with in games, manga, and anime from the country—for example, in ''[[La Pucelle]]'', this is the basis for a [[Nonstandard Game Over]], one that gets taken more or less as canon in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series. And in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', the murderous Bankotsu of the Band of Seven manages to transform his weapon into a demonic blade by using it to kill 1000 youkai and 1000 human warlords. It also shows up in ''[[Saiyuki]]'', where it's a part of Hakkai's backstory.
* [[War On Terror|The Abu Ghraib scandal]], in which military prison guards in charge of
** The chief cause of Abu Ghraib was a senior NCO reservist who had been a career corrections officer in civilian life<ref>Which is exactly why the US Army put him in the MPs and then sent him to help supervise a military prison, because the square peg was actually going in the square hole for once.</ref>, who indulged in prisoner abuse primarily for his own sadistic amusement and encouraged his subordinates to do likewise. It turns out he had a long history of doing such things in the US as a prison guard as well. Which is still a shining example of this trope, a man whose life's work was in keeping brutal criminals locked up and who grew to be far too much like them himself.
* The early career of Malcolm X. To the point where he said things like, "The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed." He backed off of this stance shortly before his murder.
* [[Thomas Jefferson]]. He became president in order to prevent his rival, the federalist Alexander Hamilton, from taking the post instead. For years, he fought strong executives and central governments, and thought standing armies were a threat to liberty. Once he became the executive of a central government, he overstepped his bounds not once, but ''twice'', and issued a coup against a standing government.
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