American Gulag

So I recently read that Amnesty International has compared our prison camp in Guantanamo Bay Cuba to the Gulags of the Soviet Union.


Photo by Tony Klimas, Copyright 2005
I was, of course, quite shocked to hear this. You see, we know a little something about Gulags in our family. My Grandfather's brother spent 15 years in a Gulag in the arctic wasteland of Siberia. His crime? Asking the French not to recognize the Soviet Union's illegal annexation of Lithuania at the end of World War II. He was lucky, however, and made it back to his homeland where he was watched until the day he died by the KGB. Others were not so lucky, and the monument shown in the photo above is in honor of all those who perished. Located in the main cemetery of Kaunus, Lithuania, each tree with an iron link represents a camp where countless men, women and children died. Their only crimes, a love of freedom and liberty.

To compare this crime against humanity with the camp in which the USA houses illegal combatants who violate the laws of war and civilized society is a travesty. It is an insult to all who lost a loved one, and diminishes any good work possibly done by Amnesty International. Perhaps they should instead focus their attention on Syria, North Korea or any of the other places where real gulags still exist today. Shame on them.