Gulag in GITMO?

Gulag. The word is an acronym for the 476 Soviet bureaucracy administered forced labor camps. In Russian it is "Glavnoe Uppravlenie Lagerei" which means "Main Camp Administration."

This is where both criminal and political prisoners were sent. Some for being 10 minutes late for work, some for telling a Political joke.

Are those in GITMO, criminals or political prisoners? Most are not. Most are not harmed in any physical way. Most are given their own prayer rugs and holy sciptures. Most international visitors report back home that for the most part, those 500 or so in GITMO are treated humanely.

In the Gulag, no one was given a Bible. No one was treated with any respect.

In most accounts of the Gulag I have read, there are anywhere from 18 - 20 million people who passed through these 476 camps. Of these passing through, there were up to 3 million who were killed. Many more millions were tortured by having excruciating physical torture. Most that died in the camps, died from literly being worked to death. Rapes were routine.

Read the "Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for the best account of this terrible example of one of the most horrific human rights violation examples in history. To compare GITMO to this is to dishonor those who went through the Gulag.

We do the people who suffered through these and Nazi concentration camps an injustice when we attempt to do such a poor job of equivocating between the Gulag and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (GITMO).

To those who are making this comparison, please stop!