Let’s speak hypothetically here for a moment:
If you were a criminal and were to be incarcerated (or detained) in a prison, and you got to choose which prison you would be locked up in — what prison would you choose?
Would you pick a US Federal or State Prison — where there is a 50 percent chance you will suffer an aggravated assault and at least a 40 percent likelihood that you will be raped and sodomized on multiple occasions while imprisoned?
Would you choose an un-airconditioned cell in the mountains of Mexico?
Perhaps you would prefer one of Saddam Hussein’s famous jail house torture chambers?
Or, like me, would you choose to be locked up in a Military prison, such as Guantanamo Bay? Where the prisoners are subjected to air conditioning, gourmet meals, and bend-over-backwards attempts to accomdate and respect cultural and religous practices.
Roger Simon came to a similar conclusion:
Jail is lousy for everyone from Tashkent to Talahassee - even Martha Stewart. And I’d take my chances in a US Military prison over virtually all of them and so would (I’d bet again - in this case my house) almost all their critics, from the editors of the New York Times to the head honchos of Amnesty International.
He also points to a survey of world prisons (hint: if you have a choice, stay out of the French ones.)
Well, these senators would choose Guantanamo:
Senators Laud Treatment of Detainees in Guantánamo
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Published: June 28, 2005
WASHINGTON, June 27 - Senators from both sides of the aisle competed on Monday to extol the humane treatment of detainees whom they said they saw on a weekend trip to the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. All said they opposed closing the center.
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Left by ll on June 28th, 2005 at 1:34 pm