An American gulag

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. plan to lock up suspected terrorists for life in secret locations without evidence is a horrifying development.

Torturing prisoners, denying them legal safeguards and essentially refuting their existence is what rogue regimes and lawless nations do. Reading about it in China's Xinhua News Agency is especially disconcerting. The Bush administration is not only doing all this now, but making systematic plans to create an American gulag of prisons and prisoners without names and cells without numbers. From the old Soviet Union to Communist China to the banana republics of Latin America and Castro's Cuba, that's what others do.

According to reports in The Washington Post, the military and CIA have hundreds of detainees for whom they have no evidence to hold longer or who have exhausted their usefulness as intelligence sources, or never provided any information.

U.S. authorities refuse to let them go or put them in proximity to U.S. civilian or military judicial systems.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2002142143_indefed06.html

[indigobusiness]

1. Has this country lost its soul?

Apparently.

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2. This is wild

Exactly what it is. An American Gulag archipelago. And don't kid yourself--it's only a matter of time before American citizens start joining the ranks

[struggle4progress]

3. kick