Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and
killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and
hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of
detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the
connections between these shameful events and the inhumanity and
degradation of domestic prisons within the 'allied' states,
including the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK and Ireland.
The central theme is that the revelations of extreme brutality
perpetrated by allied soldiers represent the inevitable end-product
of domestic incarceration predicated on the use of extreme violence
including lethal force. Exposing as fiction the claim to the
political moral high ground made by western liberal democracies is
critical because such claims animate and legitimate global actions
such as the 'war on terror' and the indefinite detention of tens of
thousands of people by the United States which accompanies it. The
myth of moral virtue works to hide, silence, minimize and deny the
brutal continuing history of violence and incarceration both within
western countries and undertaken on behalf of western states beyond
their national borders.
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