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Look if you want to know why we’re spending money on detaining a tourist for longer than their planned leave date, take particular note of the profit motive hinted at in the article when they mention she’s being held by a private contractor…
We often say cruelty is the point, but it isn’t really… Profit is the point, and cruelty just happens to be cheaper than humanity.
Profit is the point, and cruelty just happens to be cheaper than humanity.
Well stated.
I really wanted to visit the US in the nineties but I couldn't really afford it. After 2001 with the Patriot Act and all that bullshit that basically amounted to a complete abolition of the rule of law, I changed my mind. I really hope sanity returns there some day but I'll probably be dead by then.