‘The Gulag of Our Time’
May 25th, 2005 at 11:28 am by Susie
Buncha damned Commies:
Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay a human rights failure Wednesday, calling it “the gulag of our time” as it released a report that offers stinging criticism of the United States and its detention centers around the world.The 308-page report accused the United States of shirking its responsibility to set the bar for human rights protections and said Washington has instead created a new lexicon for abuse and torture. Amnesty International called for the camp to be closed.
“Attempts to dilute the absolute ban on torture through new policies and quasi-management speak, such as ‘environmental manipulation, stress positions and sensory manipulation,’ was one of the most damaging assaults on global values,” the annual report said.
At one time, I bought into the notion we were the ‘good’ guys. But we all grow up and realize there is no Santa Claus, no Easter Bunny, and the good guys always win.
Just wrote a piece on this at Kos and here:
http://screamingme.blogspot.com/