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A Kafkaesque Nightmare

January 20, 2016 by expandingbookshelf 1 Comment

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”– George Orwell, 1984 Ben Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” It’s a sentiment this country has been at odds with since its inception, from the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Guantánamo Diary, kafka, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Non-Fiction, orwell, patriot act, terrorism, torture

expandingbookshelf's CBR8 Review No:13 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Guantánamo Diary, kafka, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Non-Fiction, orwell, patriot act, terrorism, torture ·
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