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Oh my, that is quite scary, but I'm sure you have no examples.

• pjc50 11y ago
  He was talking about Guantanamo, presumably ("extralegal holding facility")
  • Lawtonfogle 11y ago
    Also involuntary commitment facilities. While there is some truly deranged people out there, psychology has a long history of being abused to remove individuals by giving them false labels of mental disorders (or otherwise vastly overstating any disorders the person does have).
  • hobs 11y ago
    I honestly question if GP is being sarcastic because this is a thing acknowledged by the US government, they wont even release some prisoners from gitmo that they acknowledge are innocent of crimes. And dont forget CIA blacksites! http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-poland-cia-blacksite-20150510-story.html http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-poland-cia-blacksi... Bush admits to secret prisons(wikipedia sources are your friend): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5321606.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5321606.stm http://web.archive.org/web/20060906193917/http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/06/bush.speech/index.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060906193917/http://www.cnn.com...
    • justin_vanw 11y ago
      We do have prisons where we keep people without trial. We don't, as far as I know, have entire prisons where we hold people without trial because they 'know secrets' and we are afraid they might tell them. In fact, I don't know of a single instance of this, outside of people who agreed to keep some secret but then changed their mind (snowden).
      • hobs 11y ago
        Fair, but I dont think anyone made that claim.
        • justin_vanw 11y ago
          But that's EXACTLY what they said??? >>Though we're not scared of what they'd do, mind you; usually it's what they'd say that's the problem. Non-allied parties who know classified information they shouldn't are effectively infohazards from a government's perspective.