Amrican Gulags

Judge Rules That U.S. Has Broad Powers to Detain
Noncitizens Indefinitely
By NINA BERNSTEIN
The class-action lawsuit, Turkmen v. Ashcroft, is the first
and largest of several brought by immigrants held after the
Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/nyregion/15detain.html?th&emc=th

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After 9/11 large numbers of Muslims were not only detained in Brooklyn, but also shipped out to county jails around the country where they were held without the benefits of basic due process rights. Our Brooklyn 'gulag' per reports in Newsday and much later in the NY Times permitted brutalization of those being held -- including the sort of stuff at Abu Ghraib where one of the Brooklyn guards eventually did his thing also, resulting in his conviction. See Google sites for Brooklyn Gulag:

http://www.google.com/search?hs=PBV&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=Brooklyn+Gulag&btnG=Search

This brutal system of incarceration, splitting parents from American children in some instances, parallels the cruel internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 for which economic compensation has only recently been made to survivors. Here again is a saga of shame for the U.S. which boasts to the world its democracy as a model for other nations to emulate. G-d forbid that they do so.

See also American Gulags:

http://www.google.com/search?hs=NW&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=American+Gulags&btnG=Search
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