Gulag Goofiness

The other day Amnesty International, formerly one of the most respected human rights organizations in the world, described the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay as "the gulag of our time." Such a statement is an insult to the tens of thousands who died in the Soviet Gulag. And if Amnesty really wants to make such a statement, why not apply the term to the prison camps of North Korea or the vicious religious police and beheadings of "heretics" in Saudi Arabia, among other candidates? That sound you just heard is the good ship Amnesty hitting the iceberg of political partisanship. How are we supposed to take their future pronouncements seriously?