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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: How Is Guantanamo Different From Nazi Detention Camps? The current radical administration in the US is being humiliated day after day. It is stubbornly insisting on creating dark pages in history that would need thousands of years to be fixed and overcome. It seems as if America eliminated the old threat from countries like China, under Mao, and the Soviet Union, only to find itself mired in a worse situation than these countries. It has now surpassed them with its detention camps and torture that allow the US to accomplish what it wants by extracting confessions forcefully and brutally. The US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is one of these dark pages that have been created by this administration. Americans want to incriminate and detain the biggest number of Muslims either in detention camps or under the wreckage of houses and buildings caused by their horrific bombings. The whole world has noticed that the Bush administration made sure from day one to put itself above the law to protect it from having to submit itself to international agreements, laws and ethical standards. Americans created methods to allow them to stalk and eliminate whomever they desired at anytime they wished without having to put up with the restrictions of international agreements. For instance, the US administration chose to name whoever it captured “illegal enemy combatants”, then had them imprisoned in detention camps outside the United States so they would not be subject to US laws and the protections they afford. Then it became so innovative in torturing those detainees without allowing humanitarian organizations or human rights groups to visit them or inspect the detention facilities. Everyone knows how American operatives bought some individuals from the Afghani and Pakistani Mafias after 9/11 within a scheme of operations only people living in the jungle are familiar with. We know that many of these detainees weren’t fighting in the first place, but were there doing relief work. Even if they were fighting, they were in Pakistan and Afghanistan long before the 9/11 attacks on the US and they had nothing to do with those acts of terrorism. Many jihadis fought in Afghanistan before and during the rule of the Taleban, in exceptional circumstances that originally came about when the US Central Intelligence Agency made all the arrangements and helped use the jihad concept to fight the invading Soviet communists in 1979. Today, the Guantanamo detention camp celebrates its fifth anniversary as the landmark of a Bush administration that practices terrorism although it claims to be fighting it. It is violating human rights while calling for their preservation. And during all these years, the same government was subjected to criticism by its allies, the opposition, Congress and the media. With all that’s happened, the Bush administration has not been able to have one person from Guantanamo convicted in a fair trial. When President George W. Bush arrived in Germany last week, reporters confronted him with the decision of the military judges in Guantanamo who had just thrown out charges against two prisoners, ruling they were not illegal enemy combatants. Bush, naturally, objected to the decision. The military court decision came after the death of four detainees in mysterious circumstances where the administration claimed that they had committed suicide. Some of the detainees’ friends in the camp said that their death was a result of torture. In both cases, the blood of these people is on the hands of the terrorist gang in the White House that didn’t consider justice and righteousness as options. No trials and no visits were allowed by international organizations. Even if the administration’s narration of their suicidal attempts were true, it would definitely be as a result of the injustice that no one in their right mind could comprehend or tolerate. There are appeals calling for the closure of the detention camp, but the Bush administration has turned a deaf ear to them. And the majority of the evil mob members — who planned these tragedies in Guantanamo, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and other parts of the Islamic world — had their downfall when their wickedness was revealed and they are now either in prison, fired from their positions or holding grudges against each other. Wrongdoing and injustice can’t survive forever even if it endures for years. But this isn’t enough. There has to be a trial and certain cases have to be discussed especially those concerning officials who believe that they are above the law. And then what is it that deprives those detainees of their rights when the administration didn’t prove any wrongdoing by them? What gives Bush’s gang the immunity where they can practice their terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, violating all the international laws in war time and violating the rights of many civilians by torturing them, murdering them and confiscating and demolishing their properties? Finally, what’s the difference between Guantanamo Bay and the other detention camps that once were and still exist in Iraq, Afghanistan and the detention camps of the Nazis? What’s the difference between torturing humans in these American detention camps and that done in Stalin’s detention camps? Even if there is weakness today in voicing criticism or calling to trial the neo-conservatives and their crimes, history won’t let them get away with their crimes. History will have its say, without taking sides or being torn apart by fear.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
One hopes there is a significantly lower death rate among the inmates of Guantánamo. But then, how can we really know? We certainly can't trust our government to tell the truth about something like that.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
The Nazis did not have water boarding?
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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