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Bush Administration as Global Jailer

By Jeralyn, Section Inmates and Prisons
Posted on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 04:02:38 PM EST
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Here's an eye-opening report by Nick Turse at Tom Dispatch on the Bush Planetary Lock Up:

In a remarkably few years, the Bush administration has been able to construct a global detention system, already of near epic proportions, both on the fly and on the cheap."

...."Even with a couple million prisoners under its control, the U.S. prison network lacks the infrastructure or manpower of the Soviet gulag or the orderly planning of the Nazi concentration-camp system. However, where it bests both, and breaks new incarceration ground, is in its planet-ranging scope, with sites scattered the world over -- from Europe to Asia, the Middle East to the Caribbean.

Unlike colonial prison systems of the past, the new U.S. prison network seems to have floated almost free of surrounding colonies. Right now, it has only four major centers -- the "homeland," Afghanistan, Iraq, and a postage-stamp-sized parcel of Cuba. As such, it already hovers at the edge of its own imperial existence, bringing to mind the unprecedented possibility of a prison planet.

[Hat tip Lefty Blogs]

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    What... (none / 0) (#1)
    by aw on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 07:34:55 PM EST
    we don't have an asteroid handy?

    aw (none / 0) (#2)
    by Che's Lounge on Fri Nov 03, 2006 at 12:33:24 AM EST
    Don't give them any ideas.

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