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June 17, 2005
How to Descend Into Fascism
Want to know how the warmongers among us view the prisoners at Gitmo? You can't do better than this column by Frank Salvato at CNSNews.com. Writes Salvato:
The people being held at Camp X-Ray are very bad people.
How do we know they're "very bad people"? Our government says so--you know, the same government that told us Iraq was overflowing with WMD and was intimately connected with al-Qaeda.
They were caught shooting at members of the most powerful and potent fighting force on the face of the planet, a fighting force that originates from the most generous and humanitarian nation in the history of said planet.
In other words, our government and its military are pure as the driven snow, and therefore anyone who opposes them--even when said military is invading that person's home country--is ispo facto a very bad person.
It takes overwhelming conviction, one based in absolute stupidity, to oppose a military that consistently garners overwhelming odds of success. So, the idea that innocents were scooped up from the battlefields along with hardened terrorists and militants while on their way to the local 7-Eleven, just doesn't hold water.
Never mind the fact that our military was paying Afghans, for example, to bring in supposed Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. No one would ever turn in an old enemy or just someone from a neighboring village in exchange for more money than he normally sees in an entire year.
These people - and I use the term only [in] its biological definition - deserve to be held in the most serious and God forsaken place that humanity can conceive. Judging from the reading material at Camp X-Ray -- and I'm not talking about Newsweek magazine -- I believe we have found just such a place.
In short, the prisoners at Gitmo aren't human. They're lower than animals, and our government can do whatever it wants to them.
And people wonder how the Germans could support Hitler's policies.
Posted by Mike Tennant at June 17, 2005 09:22 AM
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