[Harmless Teddy Bear]

America doesn't run gulags, America doesn't send people to secret prisons to be tortured, our government doesn't spy on its own citizens in a scene right out of communist east germany.

The only true thing you have said on this thread.

You are right. We don't.

[pcx99]

Then by all means prove me wrong. But just saying it doesn't make it so. Links, photos, support, whatever. Until then it's just so many empty words by someone who won't wake up and see the world around him.

Regarding Gulags and torture: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030202054.html

Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison.

Regarding eavesdropping on a level the east german communists never attained but dreamed they could: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/security/0,70785-0.html

In this case, the government will be asking a federal judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T for its alleged complicity in warrantless government surveillance of its customer's internet and telephone communications.