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'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo.

www.commondreams.org 'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo | Common Dreams

"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why."

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If you were wondering what you would be doing when Hitler started building concentration camps and loading up the trains...you're doing it right now...
- I don't think I'd be browsing social media in the 1930s.
  
  Newspapers were effectively the lemmy of that time

Who else remembers past Presidents campaigning on closing Gitmo, then dropped the subject after getting elected?
- Obama signed an executive order to close it, but Congress and the legal system slowed it down.
  
  Where is congress and the legal system now?
  
  90 senators, including Bernie Sanders, rejected Obama's 2009 funding proposal that would've closed the camp. And with good reason. Obama's move would've simply moved the prison onshore while continuing the indefinite detention without trial, potentially legitimizing the practice further and providing a clearer legal precedent.
  Yes, he technically tried to "close Guantanamo Bay" but in a way that wouldn't adress the actual reasons people want it closed.
  Sanders' statement:
  “A number of important questions remain unanswered regarding the rather complicated issue of not just how you close down the facility, but what you do with the prisoners,” he said in part. “In order to answer these questions, President Obama has appointed a high-level committee of top administration officials who will be issuing a report in the coming months. I think that it is prudent to review that plan they develop before we spend $80 million in taxpayer money.”
  
  Only took him 7ish years to get around to it though. Probably something to have done sooner?
  https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/02/23/president-obamas-plan-close-Guantanamo-about-closing-chapter-history
- Because it's a very popular issue with the voting public but the voting public doesn't have any recourse if you renege on your campaign promises.
  
  Luigi begs to differ

This was the plan.
- I cant still understand how americans decided that putting up prisons and managing them should be privatised.
  
  It began in the 1980s, when Republicans went full-throttle into privatization.
  
  Americans dont run the US. Plutocrats run the US.
  Its obvious that for profit prisons are in their interest
  
  Americans didn't. A few rich ghouls did.
  
  Prison profiteering has been going on since at least when the civil war ended. It's a crucial foundation for the imperial "economy".
- Damon T. Hininger still their CEO? Asking for a friend.
  
  Send more blue shells 🥰

You don't need an offshore camp with nebulous legality for deporting immigrants. There's already somewhere to send them and you don't care if they go free. Pretty damn useful for domestic opponents though.

'He's ~~Building~~ Expanding a Concentration Camp'

He's building another* concentration camp

Belle of the ranch pointed out it costs more at gitmo because you have to ship everyone and everything there.

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