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You went to the gulag in the Soviet Union for relatively minor offenses, real or imagined. You might be sent there if you annoyed the local party leadership, or

You went to the gulag in the Soviet Union for relatively minor offenses, real or imagined. You might be sent there if you annoyed the local party leadership, or maybe broke his daughter's heart. Maybe someone wanted something of yours, so they reported you. You'd be snatched up on the way to the grocery store. Interrogated, made to sign a confession that someone else wrote. Then you were then shipped off, and none of the people you hold dear ever heard from you again. Meanwhile, you went to gitmo if you were an armed combatant in an insurgency, or had a leadership/support role in a terrorist attack against US or her allies. Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago for a clear example of a) how Communist/Marxist/Leninist states are irrevocably totalitarian and b) how GITMO is not even remotely comparable to a gulag. The book is a remarkable and often painful read. Not because of how it is written, but because what it is written about - a demonstration of the machinations and inevitable outcome of socialist states.

InCityDreams 4y ago
>Meanwhile, you went to gitmo if you were an armed combatant in an insurgency, or had a leadership/support role in a terrorist attack against US or her allies. Wow. And, all that - without a trial.
- ImHereToVote 4y ago
  Common dude, read Solzhenitsyn. Then you will clearly see that the American word is law. To be accused by America, is the same as being satan incarnate. Do you even Solzhenitsyn bro?
hgsgm 4y ago
> Meanwhile, you went to gitmo if you were an armed combatant in an insurgency, or had a leadership/support role in a terrorist attack against US or her allies. That is a lie. Mere suspicion, or a similar name, or being a relative or associate, was sufficient.
gus_massa 4y ago
> Meanwhile, you went to gitmo if you were an armed combatant in an insurgency, or had a leadership/support role in a terrorist attack against US or her allies. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detaine... > 779 detainees have been brought to Guantanamo. Although most of these have been released without charge, the United States government continues to classify many of these released detainees as "enemy combatants". As of January 5, 2017, 55 detainees remained at Guantanamo. By January 19, 2017, at the end of the Obama Administration, the detention center remained open with 41 detainees remaining. Assuming all released are innocent and all that remaining are guilty, there is a 95% chance to go to Guantanamo and be innocent. (The number goes up following basic human right like "innocent until proven guilty".)

InCityDreams 4y ago

>Meanwhile, you went to gitmo if you were an armed combatant in an insurgency, or had a leadership/support role in a terrorist attack against US or her allies. Wow. And, all that - without a trial.

ImHereToVote 4y ago
Common dude, read Solzhenitsyn. Then you will clearly see that the American word is law. To be accused by America, is the same as being satan incarnate. Do you even Solzhenitsyn bro?

hgsgm 4y ago

> Meanwhile, you went to gitmo if you were an armed combatant in an insurgency, or had a leadership/support role in a terrorist attack against US or her allies. That is a lie. Mere suspicion, or a similar name, or being a relative or associate, was sufficient.

gus_massa 4y ago

> Meanwhile, you went to gitmo if you were an armed combatant in an insurgency, or had a leadership/support role in a terrorist attack against US or her allies. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detaine... > 779 detainees have been brought to Guantanamo. Although most of these have been released without charge, the United States government continues to classify many of these released detainees as "enemy combatants". As of January 5, 2017, 55 detainees remained at Guantanamo. By January 19, 2017, at the end of the Obama Administration, the detention center remained open with 41 detainees remaining. Assuming all released are innocent and all that remaining are guilty, there is a 95% chance to go to Guantanamo and be innocent. (The number goes up following basic human right like "innocent until proven guilty".)