US Gulag

US Undermines Rights, Guantanamo Like 'gulag' - Amnesty - New York Times

"``The USA as the unrivaled political, military and economic hyper-power sets the tone for governmental behavior worldwide,'' Secretary General Irene Khan said in the foreword to Amnesty International's 2005 annual report. ``When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a license to others to commit abuse with impunity,'' she added. The report cited the pictures last year of abuse of detainees at Iraq's U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison, which it said were never adequately investigated, and the detention without trial of ``enemy combatants'' at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ``The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law,'' Khan said."

Let's see...I've read estimates of 28-30 million people passing through the REAL gulags, and up to 25% died there. Seems we have a way to go, I think. Later update: Long essay on the difference between a gulag and a git is here: the difference