When it comes to foreigners, American justice is not blind; it actively discriminates against foreigners. If you’re an American citizen, then we apply the 100 to 1 rule to you. But if you’re a foreign Muslim, then that figure is more like 1 to 100. We’d rather incarcerate 100 innocent foreign Muslims than release 1 guilty foreign Muslim. You think I exaggerate? Look at the numbers. We’ve released about 500 prisoners from Guantanamo. Of those, the Department of Defense claims that some 60 have “returned to terrorist activities”. Their definition of “returning to terrorist activity” includes “having your lawyer write a letter of protest”, because that’s the basis on which one person has been so categorized. In terms of actually participating in violent activity, there are only two cases that have been publicly announced, and perhaps five cases that have been mentioned. These numbers are squirrelly; they seem to change every month, so I won’t attempt to document them. Whatever the real numbers are, they’re obviously tiny. So I think it fair to say that, in actual practice, our “guilty to innocent” ratio for detaining foreign Muslims is about 1 to 100, the exact reverse of our ratio for American citizens. Chris Crawford ☀
Friday 23 January 2009
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