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Saturday, June 04, 2005

 
Some people never learn
Written by: Goemagog

There are some people, such as JadeGold, the moonbats over at DU, and assorted 'progressives' who think Amnesty International was right to call the detention facility at Guantamo Bay 'the gulag of our time'.

They do this because, in part, they are stupid. Mostly they do it because they see it as a shot to destroy our republic and replace it with something more to their liking. They don't want 'religious extremists' in positions of power, authority, or influence, which means shunting over 95 percent of the country's population onto the sidelines of social discourse. This is perfectly acceptable to them, because representation of the people is not one of their priorities. Their primary concern is getting and keeping power for themselves. But I digress.

Insofar as freedoms go, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is far less like a gulag than, say, Camp 22 in North Korea. It is, in fact, less like a gulag than the whole of North Korea. It is less like a gulag than the numerous slave labor camps in China, and detainees at Guantanamo Bay are better treated by our military than most people on this planet are by their own governments, to include all of the Cuban controlled portions of Cuba. Since the detainees are not being required to perform even minor labors, Guantanamo Bay is less like a gulag than most prisons.

Insofar as prisons and prison-states go, it's more like the anti-Zimbabwe.

So why did Amnesty International say it was 'the gulag of our time'?

In part, they're nutless assmunchers, but mostly it's because they hate the United States. We have freedom and prosperity, and that makes the tyrants of the world look bad. And if you've seen pictures of Kim Jong Il, tyrants don't like looking bad even if they have no fashion sense. They've also no sense of perspective, "The sun of the nation and mankind"? Who really believes that? Oh, wait, there's JadeGold, Amnesty International, and the National Black United Front, to name a few.

Amnesty International had previously claimed that Guantanamo Bay was verging on lawlessness. One might suggest that it's just the way Amnesty International runs it's operations, but that would be stupid of one. Such heated rhetoric has never been used against North Korea, but is apparently standard for use against the United States. A sorry state of affairs since the United States has done more for the rights of humans than Amnesty International has ever attempted, and that's just counting Mr. Wallis.

Goe, because Amnesty International and JadeGold apparently think Camp 22 is affiliated with Club Med


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