Monday, June 08, 2009

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I note without a hint of irony that there is as much evidence against Ling and Lee as there is against anyone in Guantanamo, and that they have in any case only been sentenced to an enhanced vocational education.

Posted by IOZ at 2:37 PM | email »
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7 comments:

Montag said...

"enhanced" like enhanced interrogation techniques, or enhanced-enhanced?

2:50 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

all ur sovernties is awrz.

3:03 PM
Anonymous said...

Go figure, I used to live in Fair Oaks.

9:44 PM
Anonymous said...

They've been sentenced to one of those schools I see advertised on the Jerry Springer show?

10:06 AM
Inkberrow said...

As well you should, for there's no irony to be mined. Gitmo prisoners and Ling & Lee are not remotely of the same category, primarily because we are holding the former, and North Korea the latter. It seems that regardless of one's politics, American exceptionalism is honored in full, either in the breach or in the observance. They're mutually exclusive, dontcha know....

11:37 AM
Solar Hero said...

“No access to lawyers, no due process, no transparency: the North Korean judicial and penal systems are more instruments of suppression than of justice,” said Roseann Rife, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific deputy director.

Not to knock AmnIntel--they say the same about Gitmo--but that this line will be read by thousands of "intelligent" 'Murkins without a hint of irony is the real story here.

12:09 PM
periscopedepth said...

(blogspot ate my original comment)

IOZ, you're being unfair. North Korea arrested those two reporters but only so they could use them for political leverage - get the West to leave it alone to test nukes in peace.

When the U.S. locks up foreigners, denying them attorneys and open trials, it's never for some greater purpose. In the U.S., imprisonment is never a means to an end - it's an end in itself! It's a glorious Kantian maxim - an obligation that transcends time, space and circumstance.

12:37 PM

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