Saturday 30 May 2009
In the nineteenth century, when a woman had been raped, or had experienced sexual abuse in the family, the paterfamilias would say she was crazy, get her declared `too dangerous’ to be free, and lock her up forever so her story would be interred with her. That is what Obama is trying to do with preemptive detention for these detainees. Well, America? Do you want to live with this? Remember: history shows categorically that once the state can lock `them’ up without a fair trial, torture, rape them or sodomize them - well; sooner or later it will be able to do the same to your children or mine; or to you and me. Naomi Wolf ☀
