More Odds & Ends

• "I Hope It's Your Family Members That Die" - U.S. Representative, Dana Rohrabacher on those that question the Bush administration's detention policies in the "war on terror."

• Naomi Wolf offers ten-part instructions on how to close down an open society; step 2: create a gulag:

  Once you have got everyone scared, the next step is to create a prison system outside the rule of law (as Bush put it, he wanted the American detention centre at Guantánamo Bay to be situated in legal "outer space") - where torture takes place. Read More
  

• German-born Murat Kurnaz, has published a memoir, Five Years of My Life about his horrific experiences in Guantánamo.