Economic Collapse Watch: Riots in Haiti over Food Prices | 62 comments (62 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Which parts of my assessment do you disagree with?

Does the US torture, according to you? Does it treat its prisoners inhumanely? Does it arbitrarily arrest and detain without trial both its own citizens and foreign nationals?

If you answer no to any of these, how do you explain the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, which fulfils all these criteria and is long-standing policy.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 02:42:21 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hit and run comment (none / 0)

I guess it would depend on what you define as torture.
No, not any more than FRANCE, no. Guantanamo Bay is not a concentration camp, only a prison detention facility off shores.

I use the six sigma to signify that if you find a trace of something negative then the whole is corrupt. But we are not judging against a perfect God like powers but humans. As noted above Asylum and immigration has some interesting information to peruse. Also HRW has some interesting things to say about France also: Insufficient safeguards in national security removals.

And the British have some nasty immigration "centres". Hell they seem to be more like concentration camps...

Rutherfordian ------------------------------ RDRutherford

by Ronald Rutherford (rdrradio1 -at- msn -dot- com) on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 04:42:52 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hit and run comment (none / 0)

Tu Quoque.

- Jake

PS: I don't define torture. The international treaties that forbid it do. If you have an alternate definition, then let's hear it.

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 06:38:20 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Economic Collapse Watch: Riots in Haiti over Food Prices | 62 comments (62 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Top Diaries

Irish Neutrality and military alliances

At last, a progressive Australian government?

Interim French government named

Time to wield the big stick

There Ain't Nothing Boris Can't Fix

City Agriculture - May 5, 2022

N. Ireland Protocol receives democratic mandate

Expelling Russia

Recent Diaries

Irish Neutrality and military alliances

Interim French government named

Noam Chomsky on WWIII - Russia - China

At last, a progressive Australian government?

A Hit for AUKUS

Time to wield the big stick

There Ain't Nothing Boris Can't Fix

NATO War Planning -- In 2021 Ukraine

Shireen Abu Akhleh Killed by Israeli Sniper [Update]

N. Ireland Protocol receives democratic mandate

American Revival of the Barry Goldwater Era

Annexation Of Land - Changing Borders

Expelling Russia

City Agriculture - May 5, 2022

Northern Ireland Assembly Elections

Germany Goes To War

Energy (and Other) Events - May 2022

America Today!

Third and Deciding Phase for Europe

NATO Russia Founding Act - A Dead Letter

Occasional Series