Drop Site published unknown details about the conditions at the secretive facility, now emerging as a centerpiece of the president's extreme anti-immigrant policy.
Guantanamo should have been closed down and returned to Cuba long ago. It seems like the only purpose it serves is to off-load our foreigner problems and subbing out their treatment to private profiteers. You know something is a truly bad idea when it has bipartisan support.
Actually, the term goes back to the British during the South African or Boer War. From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
During war, civilians have been concentrated in camps to prevent them from engaging in guerrilla warfare or providing aid to enemy forces or simply as a means of terrorizing the populace into submission. During the South African War (1899–1902) the British confined noncombatants of the republics of Transvaal and Cape Colony in concentration camps.
You've answered the question by calling this stunt "performative." It's nothing else.
If Donnie, or anyone else, seriously wanted to protect Americans from danger, they would lock up all immigrants, some of whom commit crimes, and all Americans, more of whom commit crimes, and all males, and all females, and all adults, and all teenagers, etc. 350M people in this country would all be crammed into Guantanamo.
Aspiring dictators usually round up and "disappear" well educated political critics. I don't see evidence that criminal behavior and corruption concerns this government nearly so much as dissent. I mostly trust Meta for supplying the personal communications of each of us run through AI algorithms to determine the "dissenters" who "violated community standards" of sociopaths with a god complex. I don't trust Guantanomo won't be used as a "holding tank" for dissent.
Guantanamo should have been closed down and returned to Cuba long ago. It seems like the only purpose it serves is to off-load our foreigner problems and subbing out their treatment to private profiteers. You know something is a truly bad idea when it has bipartisan support.
Hitler called his detention centers concentration camps.
Actually, the term goes back to the British during the South African or Boer War. From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
During war, civilians have been concentrated in camps to prevent them from engaging in guerrilla warfare or providing aid to enemy forces or simply as a means of terrorizing the populace into submission. During the South African War (1899–1902) the British confined noncombatants of the republics of Transvaal and Cape Colony in concentration camps.
Hitler knew a good idea when he saw it.
could you have put "good" as in 'a good idea' in quotation marks?
You've answered the question by calling this stunt "performative." It's nothing else.
If Donnie, or anyone else, seriously wanted to protect Americans from danger, they would lock up all immigrants, some of whom commit crimes, and all Americans, more of whom commit crimes, and all males, and all females, and all adults, and all teenagers, etc. 350M people in this country would all be crammed into Guantanamo.
It's entirely, as you say, a performance.
Disgustingly disturbing and more depressing information, but thank you for the report!
Aspiring dictators usually round up and "disappear" well educated political critics. I don't see evidence that criminal behavior and corruption concerns this government nearly so much as dissent. I mostly trust Meta for supplying the personal communications of each of us run through AI algorithms to determine the "dissenters" who "violated community standards" of sociopaths with a god complex. I don't trust Guantanomo won't be used as a "holding tank" for dissent.
so MUCH hatred and disdain for others. [narcissism is terribly toxic indeed!]