I get really annoyed when the word "gulag" is bandied about with gay abandon. Do any of the people using it really know what it means? My Dad as a child was in a gulag with his entire family for the sole reason that his family was an "enemy of communism". His family wasn't there because they were being punished for a crime, they were there because they were not likely to agree or submit to the new regime that had invaded their part of Poland.
So when Tumeke use the word "gulag" to describe private prisons, I find myself annoyed because the word is being misused, and in the misuse, people may over time think that a gulag is a private prison where criminals are made to work - not a place of semi-starvation where political prisoners are being kept unjustly.
When it comes down to it, a gulag is where the state imprisons people that do not agree with the state's ideology. It's not a private prison.
Related Link: National Party Gulags ~ Tumeke
See also: Corporate Prisons
So when Tumeke use the word "gulag" to describe private prisons, I find myself annoyed because the word is being misused, and in the misuse, people may over time think that a gulag is a private prison where criminals are made to work - not a place of semi-starvation where political prisoners are being kept unjustly.
When it comes down to it, a gulag is where the state imprisons people that do not agree with the state's ideology. It's not a private prison.
Related Link: National Party Gulags ~ Tumeke
See also: Corporate Prisons