Boo!

Independent Online Edition: The children of Guantanamo Bay
If you try to put that into context with yesterday's entry, which you shouldn't, it is so mind boggling that I can only come up with cynical jokes.

Judge Says Man Too Small for Prison

Judge Says Man Too Small for Prison is an articel I found through metafilter. Now I wonder what judgement someone around 6.5 ft would get. I am sure there are problems with door heights and basement corridors in many places which could easily be exploited by inmates to play dirty tricks on you. No, I do not feel like criticizing the judge, but the distortion seems to lie somewhere else. This guy is 50 and not a child himself. But he seems to have invoked the impression that he needs special care, fostering, and education - as if his physical height was a reflection of immaturity. The consideration of his apparent fragility only seems to make sense if there was an unwritten one-on-one rule in the prison pecking order. From what is implied I expect anyone with a comparable crime would be given an extra hard time. That makes me think of a scenario which I feel may well be the nightmare of an uniformed, but anyway, here it goes: You go down for some white collar old school tax fiddling (tax cuts are never enough!) and someone starts a rumor that you molested a child... Ohoh, I will even refrain from false parking in the future! Prison is a place far too dangerous for anyone!