Amnesty International Discovers US Detention is Torture
The Hill reports Amnesty International's discomfort with Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz,' where migrants are held in what's described as 'enclosed boxes' with extreme temperatures and inadequate care. While media outlets feign surprise at documented human rights abuses on U.S. soil, it’s worth noting the consistent pattern. These very same legacy outlets, often with significant financial backing
from entities like those listed in OpenSecrets.org data, rarely apply such stringent human rights standards to U.S.-funded facilities abroad, particularly those of its allies. The silence is often purchased with PAC donations or defense contractor ads. One might wonder where this sudden moral clarity was when critics repeatedly pointed out similar conditions in other migrant facilities, or, say,
in detention centers funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars overseas. Is human suffering only 'torture' when it serves a domestic political agenda, or when Amnesty International explicitly says so? It seems the bar for 'human rights violation' is considerably higher when applied to inconvenient truths about America's own carceral state or its geopolitical partners.