Think, It Ain't Illegal Yet.....

Guantanamo Bay is the most famous
nearly empty legally absolute cul-de-sac,
that has no exit, in the world. 15 prisoners
live there as of Donald Trump's return to power.

What is less well known is how many
ICE internment camps exist in the USA:
the figure seems to be, 224, holding 70,000 people,
all of the camps surely run to profit the shareholders
who are publicity-shy, except when shaming the inmates.

Within the modern EU, as of 2020, some 47,000 people
were interned in an unknown number of camps, most of them
in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. Smaller internment sites
are run in third world coutries where many migrants to the EU
set out from, for a life better than the life on offer where they are.
These camps try to divert the activities of the people traffickers
and corrrupt police, who make profits that make them immune
from the process of the law, as applied to other, poorer, citizens.

Lawlessness in the name of the law for profit is nothing new.
New wars, in which costly armaments are fired across the world
depend on broken rules, and broken down diplomatic routes,
to break the rules further. To ask how far these camps and wars
might be enabled before a reversal of the process is necessary
is not just an ontological 'how far can this go' question.

The numbers and types of camps run by Russia and China
are a question for another time, and another study,
but for each the numbers of camps run into the hundreds,
and the populations of them run into tens of thousands. 

Life, and the quality of life we offer others,
is an ongoing question for everyone who thinks.