It's just not in the United States:
KABUL, Afghanistan — An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base.
The site, known to detainees as the black jail, consists of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day. In interviews, former detainees said that their only human contact was at twice-daily interrogation sessions.
It's not real progress on human rights until you take care of all of the problems, not just the ones that voters and global pundits know the most about -- i.e., Gitmo. Without that effort, it's Obama's gulag for now. Meanwhile, if only someone could alert Glenn Beck and those on the far right who spend so much time fretting about government-run detention camps.
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Dude, they're in Afghanistan, eating dirt, worms and ants. Getting shelter and three square meals a day with no threat of violence is the best they've ever had it. Plus, these detainees get the reassuring knowledge that there are a few million wacko loonies in the United States fighting to give them all the rights of American criminal detainees. If they play their cards right, they can come to the United States, get a Master's Degree while in prison, and get set up to preach the word of Allah, and convert American prisoners to the way of jihad. Not a bad gig, compared to eating arthropods for protein in Waziristan.
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--snip-- NEW YORK – By a wide margin, Americans consider Rush Limbaugh the nation’s most influential conservative voice. --snip-- That's interesting, cause Attytood's "conservatives" all swear that they don't like Limbaugh. I mean, it's not like Attytood's "conservatives" would be lying, or anything like that, when they claim that they aren't Limbaugh dittoheads. Especially batboy, who once came on here with a post which was IDENTICAL to something Limbaugh said on the radio, only moments after he had done so. LOL!
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You do you trust these days? When the news comes out on Area 51 there will some surprises there too.
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Hey, humanists, why not do what the lead character in "Blind Side" did, i.e., ask a detainee to take refuge in your digs. Offer him a hug and assurances that you'll do everything possible to see that he receives the rights you're entitled to if he turns over his Russian automatic weapon. Be sure to hide the bible (do humanists own bibles?) and any other religious objects in your home. Do not offer him a hot bath. Detainees abhor western cultural routines that include soap and water. Introduce him to your chaste daughter (assuming she hasn't yet been knocked up by a redneck football player), so he can dream about his afterlife and its respective virgins. Be sure to introduce him to other bleeders so they, too, can petition AG Holder for foster care. Lastly, turn on your religious programs hosted by Olberman, Matthews, Stewart and Maher. Be sure to mute the volume so that you aren't labelled as a torturer.
Hey, humanists, why not do what the lead character in "Blind Side" did, i.e., ask a detainee to take refuge in your digs. Offer him a hug and assurances that you'll do everything possible to see that he receives the rights you're entitled to if he turns over his Russian automatic weapon. Be sure to hide the bible (do humanists own bibles?) and any other religious objects in your home. Do not offer him a hot bath. Detainees abhor western cultural routines that include soap and water. Introduce him to your chaste daughter (assuming she hasn't yet been knocked up by a redneck football player), so he can dream about his afterlife and its respective virgins. Be sure to introduce him to other bleeders so they, too, can petition AG Holder for foster care. Lastly, turn on your religious programs hosted by Olberman, Matthews, Stewart and Maher. Be sure to mute the volume so that you aren't labelled as a torturer.
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"Meanwhile, if only someone could alert Glenn Beck and those on the far right who spend so much time fretting about government-run detention camps." . . . . . . . What will Back do when Obama proposes a military draft?
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