Daily Take: Alligator Alcatraz: How Tyranny Starts—With “Those People”
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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If we allow a network of secretive, cruel, detention facilities for one set of powerless people today, tomorrow it will inevitably turn those same systems against anyone who challenges their power.
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| 1:01.1 | Alligator Alcatraz, how tyranny starts with those people. |
| 1:07.4 | Amnesty International's new report on the U.S. detention sites Alligator Alcatraz and Chrome is a warning flare for every American who believes in the Constitution, the rule of law, and the basic dignity of human beings. |
| 1:21.0 | We've seen governmental cruelty before in our history, but these facilities mark a new level of calculated dehumanization on U.S. soil. |
| 1:28.9 | An amnesty is calling it what it is. Torture, enforced disappearance, and a deliberate system |
| 1:34.8 | designed to break people. What makes this report so chilling isn't just the details, although |
| 1:39.7 | they're horrifying enough. It's that the government has begun giving these places cute |
| 1:43.9 | theme park style |
| 1:45.0 | nicknames like alligator alcatraz and corn husker clink, as if they're attractions instead of |
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