On Feb 18, 2009, at 9:27 PM, David Cake wrote: > Charles is right. The 88% figure is an upper bound on the > number of Gitmo inmates who were innocent.
History is replete with examples where imprisoning moderate opponents of a given regime radicalized them. The Stuart Kings, the British Raj, the English in Ireland and any number of revolutions in Latin America come to mind. I challenge you and Charles to find a single example where imprisoning and abusing a population actually decreased the proportion who were willing to support violence against the regime that ran the prison. > Indeed, desperate acts of grotesque inhumanity often have > that effect. They are probably now occupied with, say, rebuilding > their shattered lives, recuperating from torture, or maybe > campaigning for justice. Many may indeed have been too debilitated to engage in actual armed resistance but that was just Chuck's spin. Cheney said "“gone back into the business of being terrorists.” Cheney has made it clear that he considers anyone who lends financial or even moral support to any organization he considers terrorist is himself a terrorist. -- A young idea is a beautiful and a fragile thing. Attack people, not ideas. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
