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Damn, I wish this didn't make me feel so gross. Let me quote from the
post on DemocracyNow.org that the included screencap comes
from:While President Obama has pledged to close
Guantanamo and the secret overseas CIA prisons, calls are increasing
for him to reexamine the treatment of prisoners detained as part of
the so-called war on terror being held inside the United States.
With little public scrutiny, the Bush administration opened two
secretive prisons in Indiana and Illinois, known as Communication
Management Units, or CMUs, that are designed to severely restrict
prisoner communication with family members, the media and the outside
world. Dozens of Muslim men are still being held at the CMUs, as well
as other prisoners, including environmental and animal rights
activists.
Man, do we really think America is so weak that it can be threatened
by folks fighting Global Warming and trying to free monkeys from labs?
No wonder we think Al Qaeda are so bad-ass and killing a bunch of
Somali pirates is something to be proud of (come on, they're
pirates... from Somalia).
Here's a bit more from the DN transcript:Prisoners
held inside the special unit include Dr. Rafil Dhafir, the Iraqi-born
doctor from upstate New York who is serving a twenty-two-year sentence
for violating the Iraqi sanctions by sending aid to Iraq through his
charity Help the Needy; Yassin Aref, the Kurdish-born imam from
Albany, New York, who was convicted in a controversial FBI sting
operation; and also the environmental activist Daniel McGowan. He's
serving a seven-year sentence for his role in two acts of arson.
Some critics have suggested McGowan and other non-Muslim prisoners are
being held in the CMU, because the federal government wants to avoid
accusations that the CMUs are designed to only hold Muslim
men.
And from a bit further on lawyer for one of the prisoners of a CMU
prison, Kathy Manley says:Well, yeah, it's
unconstitutional to treat people more restrictively in a prison
context because of their race or religion. And they're clearly doing
that. I mean, the CMU in Terre Haute is almost 90 percent
Muslim.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: New boss (almost the) same as
the old boss.
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