Here is a special guest posting from an LDTT regular we'll call "The Tin Man":
This Abu Ghraib thing has finally caused me to see the light... the Bush administration is constructing a prison system that's essentially the same as the infamous Soviet Gulag. We've got an archipelago of autonomous regions outside the U.S. that are islands of lawlessness. In cancer terms, they're like tumors metastasizing all over the globe.
The Soviet gulag wasn't born overnight. It developed over decades. Lenin started it, Stalin perfected it. Solzhenitsyn describes it in a chapter of Gulag Archipelago called "The history of our sewage disposal system". Bush and his gang are installing the plumbing as fast as they can.
Control of the press, manipulation of history, a penal system that's accountable to noone, forcible exportation of ideology, opposition to a political party equated with treason... My god, Bolsheviks have taken over the White House!
-- The Tin Man
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