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As the UN demands closure of KBR-built Guantanamo facilities, the Halliburton subsidiary was awarded a $385 million, five-year contract from DHS's US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build detention facilities within the US. The facilities would house an emergency influx of immigrants, or "support the rapid development of new programs."
Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
Halliburton Press Releases
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You know, Guantanamo has an historical echo. Remember Botany Bay in New South Wales (that's in Australia for the geographically challenged and Americans)? Due to the Revolutionary War (1770's) it was no longer possible for Britain to send convicted felons to New North American colonies. They had to get there on their own. So Australia had the doubtful privilege of hosting penal colonies. Penal servitude, transportation for life: Another Brit. invention developed and exploited by others. Hovercraft, jet engine, concentration camps…the list goes on. Seriously guys, it's taken us Brits centuries to live down these human rights violations. In 100 years' time Guantanamo will still be mentioned. And you are worried that if you release Guantanamo inmates they might still be a tad disenchanted, and do something rash; like drive an LPG tanker into a US Embassy. Might be cheaper for you to give them a million dollars each and a letter of apology. A few lines of "Jim Jones", sung but presumably not written by Bob Dylan (dates from 1901) might be appropriate:
And some dark night, when everything
Is silent in the town
I'll shoot those tyrants one and all
I'll gun the floggers down
Oh, I'll give the land a little shock
Remember what I say
They'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones
In chains to Botany Bay.
"Those to whom evil is done do evil in return."