We got our very own US made Concentration camp:
Mass detention without due process.
Horrible surviving conditions without simple human rights.
Corporal and lasting mental punishments.
Made to intimidate and isolate a group of the population.
Administered by state paramilitary contractors.
I knew about those internment camps -- because they were widely recognized afterward as a stain on our national character, something never to be repeated.
And I knew about the hieleras[1] and about Guantanamo.
And about so many other instances in history, from so many governments.
But I hoped our arc would not be toward more people treated this way, more proudly. I hoped we would stop running so eagerly toward the poison.
