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To: BlackVeil
I equate death camps with concentration camps, Nazis and gas chambers...an outrageous term to use.If it was meant to inflame,it worked. I'd like to flog the writer.
44 posted on 05/26/2003 6:20:58 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: MEG33
(A duplicate thread for this article was deleted as I was composing this reply to its poster, "RepublicanRightOrWrong." I could address it to you, though, as well.)

I'd like to flog the writer.

Why, what's upsetting you? That some observers abroad are, once again, merely calling U.S. government hypocrisy by its right name?

That a government devoting prime real estate in the heart of its capital city to a museum decrying a Bergen-Belsen can, nonetheless, put up its own similar facility at Guantanamo Bay? (Note that the article refers to "death camp," not "extermination facility." There's a difference.)

Or is it, I would sincerely hope, that you'd retch as I would at contemplating both of the above?

Or is it, as I fear, applying to neither of the above? Will any effort used to prosecute this conflict or suppress dissent, no matter how much it tramples on individual rights of due process (which are universal, not just American), be cheered by you?

Every empire "needs" some place to slay those it wants removed with impunity, and without strictures of law. This happened with spiritual empires, such as Torquemada's having his way in Spain against all the Moors, then all the Jews, then all the disobedient Catholics, and if some odd "witches" were put through the wringer or the rack, who'd notice? And it's happened with temporal empires of all sorts that want to preserve public opinion at home.

And now it's "our" turn, apparently, to practice such savagery with impunity. And I doubt that you're surprised.

46 posted on 05/26/2003 6:35:03 AM PDT by Greybird ("War is the health of the State." -- Randolph Bourne)
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