June 02, 2005
Gulags? Ill show you gulags! II
Rusty Shackleford has an excellent editorial on gulags, their history and origins posted at The Jawa Report.
Last week Amnesty International called the Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, detention facility (also knows as Camp X-Ray) where so-called 'enemy combatants' in the Global War on Terror are being held 'the gulag of our times.'By invoking the term gulag, Amnesty International wishes to convey the notion that what is happening to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is somehow comparable to the Soviet labor camp prison system of the Stalinist era. By using the term gulag, Amnesty International wishes to convey images of political terrorism, repression, and harsh prison conditions.
Comparing Guantanomo to a gulag is a serious accusation.
This post explores three questions: What exactly is a gulag and how widespread was the gulag system? What were the Soviet gulags like? And how do the worst and yet unproven allegations of abuse at Guantanomo Bay compare to what happened in Soviet gulags?
You definitely need to read the whole eye opening thing.
Posted by Val Prieto at June 2, 2005 08:16 AM
Comments
Maybe this will start a long-overdue global discussion on just what the hell gulags really were. This will upset Amnesty International mightily.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at June 2, 2005 08:54 AM
How deeply ironic that Amnesty International didn't bother to go into detail of a REAL gulag virtually *next door* to the facilities at Guantanamo: Boniato Prison. A place where no delegates of Amnesty International has EVER been allowed by castro to go check on the hundreds of political prisoners... who themselves --unlike those detainees at Guantanamo, are not provided with prayer books, have no prayer rugs, no religion-correct food, no comfortable beds, no sports facilities or equipment, no climate-correct comfortable clothing, and so on and so on and so on. And Amnesty International also omitted other facilities in Cuba like Boniato, of which there are many, many others, filled with thousands and thousands abused on a daily basis by the castro regime. But Amnesty International has been ignoring those for years. This may be the one "public relations" black eye that will make the leaders of Amnesty International get a real conscience.
Julio
Posted by: Julio C. Zangroniz at June 2, 2005 09:12 AM
AI, along with just about every other "humanitarian" organization on the planet, has long been infiltrated by commies and their useful idiots, and they're now making themselves known. We should drive them out of America.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 2, 2005 12:33 PM