Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib concentration camps.

Why does no one talk about this? I guess because the United States is the most powerful government on the face of the planet, no one takes the time to mention the fact that they have 2 active concentration camps for men and woman who were housed there.

Just to be clear these are concentration camps.

http://www.answers.com/concentration+camp&r=67Quote:n.A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined,
typically under harsh conditions.A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions.[/quote]

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps.htm
Quote:Camps were an essential part of the Nazis' systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable. There were concentration camps, forced labor camps, extermination or death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps. The living conditions of all camps were brutal.

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=3690
Some who are being tortured, beaten, raped, killed, or driven to suicide. The health conditions are horrific. The world waits, watches and just let's it continue.

Why don't these things get talked about?

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/reich.html
People will look back and say these were horrible things, and there will be law suits and eventually some lame government apology that will mean little or next to nothing, and it will be the same bs. We did what we had to do, we are different now.

These things could never happen again. You know what, it is happening again. We have these camps again, but no one talks about it.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/531
Innocent men and woman were been picked up and forced into these camps. Some were sold into these camps. Some might be guilty but do we know? No because they have not been charged with anything, how can you be truly guilty, if you have not been charged with anything? They have had no charges laid against them, but they have just been placed in darkness and hell by one of the most powerful governments in the world.

The United Nations is doing nothing, and I mean nothing. If any other country on the planet and done this to other human beings, there would be sanctions and censure, but there is nothing.

They lie in hell, darkness and misery, without knowing what they are being charged with, without access to a lawyer, without knowing when and if they will ever get out of those hells.

I always wonder how things like this could happen. How could the German people let this happen to the Jews, how could they have done that?

Why did we intern the Japanese during WWII?

Why didn't the world step in sooner?

Why didn't people protest?

And now I know why. Because I am living in such a time, and it's unbelievable. We sit back and we do this to others, and our excuse is that someone hit us first, just like Hitlers excuse with the reichstag fire.

http://dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu/materials/weimar.htm

Quote:This bill, which receives the necessary two-thirds majority with the aid of the Center Party, grants full legislative powers to the cabinet without requiring the assent of the Reichstag. It is the formal basis of Hitler’s power for the remainder of the Third Reich.

Because they told themselves that these people were bad, that they were destroying the country, that they were the heart of what was wrong and that by careening them into these camps, it was for the safety of everyone else. They spread lies and propaganda, and dehumanised them.

History looked back in condemnation, but why can we not stem the tide and condemn this? Why can we not get past our fears, and stupidity long enough to see that what we are doing is wrong, we are now becoming the monsters, that we seek to protect ourselves from? Is our fear so blind that we can not see what we are doing to others?

9/11 and Peal harbour were both horrible events and they gave us the means, motive and opportunity to do a lot of really unpleasant things to others, that we should realise that we should not be doing, but we make excuses, and let things happen to others that we should not.

We preach democracy and what we really mean is democracy for us, but not for others. We invade others countries and occupy them, for illicit false reasons. Yet there are no sanctions, there is no true censor.

The world sits by and watches as this happens again. It not the same numbers as the German concentration camps, I don't know if the numbers come close to the Japanese internment camps, but it's the same actions that we will be apologizing for in the future, but it will be very little and it will be to even less avail. You can't give back a life that you have destroyed.

We tell ourselves that we are doing this to guarantee ourselves and our children's security and protection, but the world has not become a safer place by these actions, it's become less safe if anything. No one calls the camps what they are.

I guess there were sane voices in every time period, ones that saw and recognised the evils of their times. The Germans who hid the Jews, till the evil could pass.

The people who did not go along with interning the Japanese, or who spoke out against it. However these voices are always in short supply during these time periods, or they are being shut down or shut up. That should not be the case.

I wish that these evil times would pass, I wish people would wake up and realise that we are not making the world a safer place, and we will not be until we practice what we preach. It's the biggest hypocrisy, to say that you are a democratic society and that you practice democracy, but then you deny it to others.

WWII I always asked myself. Why didn't the world step in sooner? Now I know why.