--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Clearly, any difficulty over my factual reporting, > could only be in someone seemingly incapable of > understanding that there would inevitably be > differences in different scenarios. A prison camp in > Siberia would hardly be similar to the hive of > activity in metropolitan Moscow, Leningrad and > Kiev. > Mario observes: > Cornel, I think you have overlooked my point, which was the reasons why Solzhenitsyn and Sharansky were put in prison camps in the first place. > Cornel writes: > > Likewise, is it so difficult to understand that > under American control, Guantanamo is not the same > as trendy San Francisco, let alone the Rust Belt > in the USA? > Mario observes: > Cornel, perhaps the political TV shows in the UK have misled you once again. Gitmo is a special prison for the worst Islamic terrorists captured on the battlefield, not US citizens simply practicing their religion and freedom of speech and action, and thus cannot be compared with the Solzenitzen and Sharansky situations, who were sentenced to the Gulags in Siberia in the old Soviet Union for their political and religious convictions. >
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