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Inside America’s Gulag

A Guantánamo lawyer reports from a parallel legal universe

By H. Candace Gorman

According to the U.S. government, Guantánamo Bay is leased to Uncle Sam by the Cuban government. However, Cuba does not recognize U.S. claims to the Bay and has not accepted lease payments for decades. Therefore, while Guantánamo is officially Cuban territory, it is effectively a fiefdom of the United States military. Guantánamo’s bizarre political status makes it a perfect haven… return to article

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    Yes, Guantanamo is a Gulag.  I realize the RepubThugs don’t like that.  Too bad, chickehawks!

    United States Posted by frank67 on Feb 14, 2007 at 11:02 AM

    Amen. I noticed the big mouth rightist thugs like WTH, TexASS beaner boy and Scorpy Doobie AKA Master Bates haven’t challenged you.

    United States Posted by blondemike on Feb 19, 2007 at 12:36 PM

    I’m as much against the detention camp as anyone else, but.. Will you please stop referring to the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay as a ‘gulag’?  It is not a gulag.  Not even close.  There was only one gulag and to compare this American misadventure in “terrorist” detainment to THE Gulag shows a glaring deficiency in world history while also doing a perverse disservice to all of those that died and suffered because of Stalin’s Gulag.

    Guantanamo Bay is a prison camp; a very repulsive, perhaps illegal one at that.  But not a gulag, so please don’t make misguided comparisons.

    United States Posted by Andrew Electric on Feb 12, 2008 at 8:01 PM
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