What about calling it refugee camp?
Britain leading red newspaper, the Guardian, talks about the U.S. building a "Cuba migrant center" at Guantanamo Base. Let's analyze the article....
U.S. to Build Cuba Migrant Center (actually, it should be called refugee camp, since Cubans as per American law, once they flee communism are refugees)
Wednesday May 9, 2007 4:31 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The United States, which has been planning for possible waves of fleeing Cubans when Fidel Castro dies, has hired a Florida company to build a temporary complex to hold migrants at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the military said. (will they pen there the would be refugees that take the seas and who are interdicted by the Bi-Coastal Guard? So besides being returned to the floating Gulag in the Caribbean the alternate prospect is to jail them for an undetermined amount of time next door to a bunch of terrorists, where the hell are the politicos who are not protesting this additional duress on the dry foot wet foot?)
Islands Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., has won a $16.5 million contract to build a ``migrant operations complex'' at the base, a U.S. enclave in eastern Cuba, the U.S. Defense Department said. (what a nice chunk of money! Could that money be destined instead to help Cuban refugees to resettle in places where they would be needed and of use, as per example disaster areas, like the zones ravaged by Hurricane Katrina or other natural disasters?
The fenced complex would include showers and laundry facilities (because they flee Cuba with a lot of clothing, you know!) and is to be finished by May 2008, according to a Defense Department publication that announces contracts.
The announcement late Monday did not specify the capacity of the complex (what about accepting them in the USA, and resettling them in disaster areas they can reconstruct? Do they build migrant camps to keep Mexicans in lockdown? I don't think so!) and a Defense Department spokesman said additional details were not immediately available. Bob Turnage, the president of Islands Mechanical, declined to discuss the project.(of course, incarceration construction projects are not usually part of the public discussion)
The contract announcement did not specify that the complex would be for Cuban migrants, but Navy officials told The Associated Press in January that they were preparing for a potential Cuban exodus because of Castro's health problems and would hold migrants at Guantanamo, where the U.S. also has detained about 380 men on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. (again, they are refugees, they don't escape Cuba because kasstro is sick you dumbfuck, they escape Cuba because the damn island has been a communist hellhole for the last 48 years!)
Guantanamo was used to hold thousands of Haitian and Cuban migrants (refugees, goddammit) in the 1990s. U.S. officials had said they would keep the migrants on the other side of the base from the detainees and would have to increase troop levels to provide additional security. (so, the plan is to house Cubans not that far away from terrorists, and have them detained there for unspecified length of time, where the fuck are the politicos that they are not protesting this? what's the Cubans' crime? seeking freedom! The last time around, in 1994, the Cubans were not treated as nicely as they treat the damn terrorists, they didn't have, to the best of my knowledge, any air conditioned facilities, or culturally or religiously correct meals or accomodations. This whole thing sounds to me like the imprisonment of the Japanese during World War II with the only difference that the Cubans who are escaping Cuba are not the enemy! Are Cubans the new Japanese?)
UPDATE:
But also today, a group of lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives have presented a new bill to close the Pentagon's suspected terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. What do they mean? More room for Cuban rafters?
According to one of the authors of the bill the Californian Democrat Jane Harman (D-CA), "Guantanamo Base has become a liability. The real and perceived injustices occurring there have given our enemies an easy example of our failures and alleged ill intent. The prison is so widely viewed as illegitimate, so plainly inconsistent with America's proud legal traditions; it has become a stinging symbol of our tarnished standing abroad."
She doesn't seem to feel the same for the future immates from Cuba, apparently locking them down there is not an injust failure inconsistent with America's proud legal traditions, and it will not become a stinging symbol of our standing abroad.
And this is not only happening in the House with HR 2212 that calls for the closure of the prison for terrorist in one year. The Senate also has a little piece in the works asking the President and the Pentagon to close shop in Gtmo. Bay. Are you surprised? I am very surprise (sarcasm on) because our "august and patrician politicos" in both the House and the Senate are not saying a word. They are mum, as always, in what regards to the dry foot wet foot and other abusive measures against the Cuban rafters. Not to talk about the copresident of the Republican Party, the boss of Immigration, the Secretary of Commerce, the celebrities, the captains of industry, and the religious leaders of Cuban descent. They are all very quiet with their traps closely shut.
Now, let's take a look at the letter of HR 2212, it reads: "all detainees" shall be "transferred to a military or civilian detention facility in the United States and charged with a violation of United States or international law and tried in an Article III court or military legal proceeding before a regularly-constituted court." Hey, maybe the rafters get lucky (sarcasm on)! That would mean they will be brought to the American mainland and then some crafty immigration lawyer could press for the application of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966!
A couple of lines down it says "the detainees should be transferred to an international tribunal operating under the authority of the United Nations." With some extra luck they will probably catch fidel and raul and taken them to such tribunals! what do you think, that I am being sarcastic?
Apparently, all you need to have the protection of certain American politicians is to be an enemy of the United States.
Try to escape the terrorist regime next door and you will find yourself netted, gunned-down, pepper-sprayed, pressure-hosed, and if you're not returned to the terrorist regime you were trying to escape from you will end up in a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay!
U.S. to Build Cuba Migrant Center (actually, it should be called refugee camp, since Cubans as per American law, once they flee communism are refugees)
Wednesday May 9, 2007 4:31 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The United States, which has been planning for possible waves of fleeing Cubans when Fidel Castro dies, has hired a Florida company to build a temporary complex to hold migrants at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the military said. (will they pen there the would be refugees that take the seas and who are interdicted by the Bi-Coastal Guard? So besides being returned to the floating Gulag in the Caribbean the alternate prospect is to jail them for an undetermined amount of time next door to a bunch of terrorists, where the hell are the politicos who are not protesting this additional duress on the dry foot wet foot?)
Islands Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., has won a $16.5 million contract to build a ``migrant operations complex'' at the base, a U.S. enclave in eastern Cuba, the U.S. Defense Department said. (what a nice chunk of money! Could that money be destined instead to help Cuban refugees to resettle in places where they would be needed and of use, as per example disaster areas, like the zones ravaged by Hurricane Katrina or other natural disasters?
The fenced complex would include showers and laundry facilities (because they flee Cuba with a lot of clothing, you know!) and is to be finished by May 2008, according to a Defense Department publication that announces contracts.
The announcement late Monday did not specify the capacity of the complex (what about accepting them in the USA, and resettling them in disaster areas they can reconstruct? Do they build migrant camps to keep Mexicans in lockdown? I don't think so!) and a Defense Department spokesman said additional details were not immediately available. Bob Turnage, the president of Islands Mechanical, declined to discuss the project.(of course, incarceration construction projects are not usually part of the public discussion)
The contract announcement did not specify that the complex would be for Cuban migrants, but Navy officials told The Associated Press in January that they were preparing for a potential Cuban exodus because of Castro's health problems and would hold migrants at Guantanamo, where the U.S. also has detained about 380 men on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. (again, they are refugees, they don't escape Cuba because kasstro is sick you dumbfuck, they escape Cuba because the damn island has been a communist hellhole for the last 48 years!)
Guantanamo was used to hold thousands of Haitian and Cuban migrants (refugees, goddammit) in the 1990s. U.S. officials had said they would keep the migrants on the other side of the base from the detainees and would have to increase troop levels to provide additional security. (so, the plan is to house Cubans not that far away from terrorists, and have them detained there for unspecified length of time, where the fuck are the politicos that they are not protesting this? what's the Cubans' crime? seeking freedom! The last time around, in 1994, the Cubans were not treated as nicely as they treat the damn terrorists, they didn't have, to the best of my knowledge, any air conditioned facilities, or culturally or religiously correct meals or accomodations. This whole thing sounds to me like the imprisonment of the Japanese during World War II with the only difference that the Cubans who are escaping Cuba are not the enemy! Are Cubans the new Japanese?)
UPDATE:
But also today, a group of lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives have presented a new bill to close the Pentagon's suspected terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. What do they mean? More room for Cuban rafters?
According to one of the authors of the bill the Californian Democrat Jane Harman (D-CA), "Guantanamo Base has become a liability. The real and perceived injustices occurring there have given our enemies an easy example of our failures and alleged ill intent. The prison is so widely viewed as illegitimate, so plainly inconsistent with America's proud legal traditions; it has become a stinging symbol of our tarnished standing abroad."
She doesn't seem to feel the same for the future immates from Cuba, apparently locking them down there is not an injust failure inconsistent with America's proud legal traditions, and it will not become a stinging symbol of our standing abroad.
And this is not only happening in the House with HR 2212 that calls for the closure of the prison for terrorist in one year. The Senate also has a little piece in the works asking the President and the Pentagon to close shop in Gtmo. Bay. Are you surprised? I am very surprise (sarcasm on) because our "august and patrician politicos" in both the House and the Senate are not saying a word. They are mum, as always, in what regards to the dry foot wet foot and other abusive measures against the Cuban rafters. Not to talk about the copresident of the Republican Party, the boss of Immigration, the Secretary of Commerce, the celebrities, the captains of industry, and the religious leaders of Cuban descent. They are all very quiet with their traps closely shut.
Now, let's take a look at the letter of HR 2212, it reads: "all detainees" shall be "transferred to a military or civilian detention facility in the United States and charged with a violation of United States or international law and tried in an Article III court or military legal proceeding before a regularly-constituted court." Hey, maybe the rafters get lucky (sarcasm on)! That would mean they will be brought to the American mainland and then some crafty immigration lawyer could press for the application of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966!
A couple of lines down it says "the detainees should be transferred to an international tribunal operating under the authority of the United Nations." With some extra luck they will probably catch fidel and raul and taken them to such tribunals! what do you think, that I am being sarcastic?
Apparently, all you need to have the protection of certain American politicians is to be an enemy of the United States.
Try to escape the terrorist regime next door and you will find yourself netted, gunned-down, pepper-sprayed, pressure-hosed, and if you're not returned to the terrorist regime you were trying to escape from you will end up in a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay!
2 Comments:
"Do they build migrant camps to keep Mexicans in lockdown? I don't think so!" ICE (from what I've read, sorry can't provide a link at the moment; don't really want wait with how the 'net has been here but check out the '04 issues of The Atlantic Monthly for starters, one of them makes mention of) has detention centers in the southwest in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona where illegal aliens (who are mainly Mexican) have been held for long periods of time due to a backlog in the federal court system. Having said that, these Cubans aren't breaking any laws. They're just seeking freedom, like you said, and it can be argued that were encouraging them by offering political asylum if they can touch a piece of US land. This I am not against at all. As you know, I'm all for it. Finish off wet-foot dry-foot CB and hopefully such a place will be irrelevant (as it already is in my eyes. Why do we need this place anyway?).
Actually, they have a lot of people defending the inmates of those camps Matt and getting them out. They are deported and the come back in no time, many of them to work and survive in this country, others to engage in a life of crime. But the camps are for those who are OTM (other than Mexican)
The difference is that Cubans arrive here, they do something with their lives, and they become politically active tax payers. That's exactly why the newcomers (Cuban only) are sent to a concentration camp run by the US or back to Cuba. Because it's better to have a subservient foreigner who works for peanuts and sustain humiliation and racism than a dignify perrson who left communism and who walks with his head high up.
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