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> though the US doesn't round them up & disappear them, they go through the court system

Yeah, unless you are suspected for terrorism. I recommend the movie named The Mauritanian.

> Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Arabic: محمدو ولد الصلاحي‎) (born December 21, 1970) is a Mauritanian man who was detained at Guantánamo Bay detention camp without charge from 2002 until his release on October 17, 2016.

> The book, Guantánamo Diary, was published in January 2015. It is the first work by a still-imprisoned detainee at Guantánamo. It provides details of Slahi's harsh interrogations and torture, including being "force-fed seawater, sexually molested, subjected to a mock execution and repeatedly beaten, kicked and smashed across the face, all spiced with threats that his mother will be brought to Guantánamo and gang-raped.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamedou_Ould_Slahi



In a country of 330 million people, with massively global interests, you're going to have to do a lot better than rare examples.

In a country so large with so many different government agencies, entities, organizations, and interests, just about anything you can think of will have happened at some point. The question is whether it's going on at large scale, whether it's the common practice or rare.

You're trying to use one example to prove that the practice is common, when in fact that's false, it's not common it's rare. It's the exception, not the rule; which is exactly why it makes for an attention getting story.


I have no idea whether it is happening or not at a large enough scale. I did not mean to prove anything, just wished to shed light on it.

How do we know it is not happening though? Think about pre-Snowden.


> In a country of 330 million people, with massively global interests, you're going to have to do a lot better than rare examples.

USA doesn't have massive global interest. Maybe its companies, but not it's state. USA is a very insular, and static system of a state.

It's a good example what happens in those very few cases when the machine of US state moves, and what is characteristic of it.

A meaningful political reform will start with somebody starting to uncork it, and forcefully subjecting it to contact with outside world.




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