Amnesty Int'l & Moral Idiocy

here are some comparisons
between the Gulag and Guantanamo, courtesy of David Bosco and published in The New Republic:

Individuals detained:
Gulag: 20 million.
Guantanamo: 750 total.

Number of camps:
Gulag: 476 separate camp complexes comprising thousands of individual camps.
Guantanamo: five small camps on the U.S. military base in Cuba.

Reasons for Imprisonment:
Gulag: Hiding grain; owning too many cows; need for slave labor; being Jewish; being Finnish; being religious; being middle class;
having had contact with foreigners; refusing to sleep with the head of Soviet counterintelligence; telling a joke about Stalin.
Guantanamo -- Fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan; being suspected of links to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

Red Cross Visits:
Gulag: none that Bosco could find.
Guantanamo: regular visits since January 2002.

Deaths as a Result of Poor Treatment:
Gulag: at least two to three million (Bosco
understates).

Guantanamo: no reports of prisoner deaths.

If Amnesty International does not fire Irene Khan and retract her obscene comparison, it is unworthy of respect or support.