Loyal M. Johnson has often asked for help in his LTEs regarding disapproval of current administrative actions. This time LMJ believes any criticism of how detainees in detention centers are being mistreated is baseless. Where was the outrage in the past four years of how prisoners who were U.S. citizens were being mistreated, he asks?
I tried to puzzle out his illogical reasoning in order to help him once again. Here goes.
1) LMJ has obviously never heard of the Innocence Project, founded in 1992, that helps wrongfully convicted prisoners.
2) Prisoners were given due process, allowed to make a phone call and assigned a public defender if they could not afford one. Whereas the individuals in the detention centers, whether accused of a crime or not, are not given these privileges provided under our legal system.
If LMJ had lived in Germany in the early 1940s, would he have considered any criticism of how Jews were detained in horrific camps equally baseless?
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Karen Papagapitos
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