Let's do a quick comparison of the prison for citizens in North Korea and the prison for terrorists at Guantanamo shall we?
The Prison in North Korea - Populated by Citizens of North Korea
"Kyohwaso life is extremely harsh: scholars estimate only 50% of prisoners survive their first year. One of the first accounts of the North Korean prison system, a 2000 memoir called The Aquariums of Pyongyang, tells of routine torture and deprivations on par with Nazi concentration camps. The book's author, Kang Chol Hwan, was imprisoned in Yodok concentration camp at the age of 9 for 10 years with his family, where he suffered starvation, disease and was forced to attend public executions. "I attended some 15 executions during my time in Yodok," he wrote."
Why was this person imprisoned?
"Kang was imprisoned at the camp because his grandfather had been sentenced for suspicious behavior. "It's guilt by association," says Tim Peters, a Christian activist living in South Korea who has helped numerous North Korean defectors find safe havens in other countries."
Who has escaped the prison?
"Shin Dong Hyuk, a 27-year-old who is reportedly the only living former prisoner to escape a North Korean prison camp, also wrote a recent book about his experiences, Escape to the Outside World. Shin says he was born and raised in a camp about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, and like many prisoners, witnessed routine atrocities, including the execution of both his mother and brother. Before his escape in 2005, Shin was tortured at least twice, once for accidentally dropping a sewing machine in the garment factory where he was forced to work at the camp. He also watched a prison guard beat a small girl to death for hiding a few grains of wheat in her pocket."
The Prison in Guantanamo - Populated by Terrorists from Other Countries who Attacked the US and Killed Thousands of Our Citizens
Now at Guantanamo we made 3 of the most hardened terrorists very uncomfortable by pouring water on them for a few seconds (with a physician standing by to ensure they were not actually harmed) on a routine basis until we were satisfied they had told us what additional attacks were planned on the US in order to kill more innocent people in our country and further do economic damage as well.
This included guys like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks." He is also thought to have had, or has confessed to, a role in many of the most significant terrorist plots over the last twenty years, including the World Trade Center 1993 bombings, the Operation Bojinka plot, an aborted 2002 attack on the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, the Bali nightclub bombings, the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63, the Millennium Plot, and the murder of Daniel Pearl.
Other than that the worst we do is put a harmless caterpillar in their cell, but the lawyers have forbidden the guards from trying to convince them it might be a dangerous insect. We just hope they come to that conclusion on their own and are frightened by this scary looking bug.
Prisoners at Gitmo, who are for the most part citizens of another country, are given a copy of their holy book, prayer rugs, laptops, cable TV, access to lawyers, and so much to eat of culturally prepared foods that most now have the "Gitmo Gut" from gaining at least 20 pounds while living in this nice tropical facility we have provided for them.
So knowing that the true liberal mind always turns everything upside down and comes to the wrong conclusion almost without fail, especially when dealing with guilt and innocence of various humans and how the rules would apply differently to them, which prison do they spend all their time protesting? Why Gitmo of course!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090609/wl_time/08599190357200
J. Cogburn
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