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Jan. 2nd, 2005 10:56 amWhen a news outlet makes predictions for the future, and they come true, you REALLY don't want it to have been The Onion.
Jan. 2nd, 2005
US plans "terrorist" concentration camps, to keep suspected "terrorists" imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them in courts.
Yes, that's right. Be an Arab in the wrong place at the wrong time, and be sent to a camp for the rest of your life, with no recourse. Even worse, these are *American* camps, meaning you *will* be tortured and your arrest *will* be entirely groundless.
How long before the crescent-moon armbands, the reasoning that all Arabs "might become terrorists because we're imprisoning their people" and the concomitant imprisonment of the entire population on ethnic grounds, and the tattoed ID numbers?
Yes, that's right. Be an Arab in the wrong place at the wrong time, and be sent to a camp for the rest of your life, with no recourse. Even worse, these are *American* camps, meaning you *will* be tortured and your arrest *will* be entirely groundless.
How long before the crescent-moon armbands, the reasoning that all Arabs "might become terrorists because we're imprisoning their people" and the concomitant imprisonment of the entire population on ethnic grounds, and the tattoed ID numbers?
Warren Ellis has *hot* friends.
Jan. 2nd, 2005 10:35 pmTristan Risk, looking unusually angelic (and mostly naked - Not Work-Safe) on the cover of a new CD by a band called ( Novak )