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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Well, I think that despots who hold prisoners for political reasons don't really call them political prisoners -- they say that they are imprisoned because they pose a threat to their country/government. And we seem to have imprisoned people pretty much indefinitely without a trial or whatever because we say (or, someone somewhere in our gov't says) they pose a threat to the country/government.
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I agree the current administration has political prisoners for which it responsible, and the fact they are kept on the tip of Cuba is really irrelevant to me. In other words, I think Bush is despotic.
I think there could be an argument that Thatcher was not a despot, though.
