in calling Guantanamo Bay a Gulag.
While Gulag may evoke the proper revulsion, it doesn't capture the true flavor of the prison we have built in Gitmo (and who knows where else). We have established a system where a person can be un-created. He has no rights, his sentence in prison is for life, unless we change our mind and he has no recourse or appeal.
To find any past example you have to roll the clock back a thousand years. A King, a castle and a dungeon, where a man could be thrown in and forgotten. No other system seems to fit this monster we have created.
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