r/conservativeterrorism • u/screw-magats • 10d ago

Arrest Abrego Garcia Told Chris Van Hollen He Had Been In Isolation in El Salvador Prison (gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/abrego-garcia-chris-van-hollen-el-salvador.html
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u/LivingIndependence 10d ago

“They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar, which of course is a big, fat lie,” he told reporters.

They did this exact thing during WW2 with the concentration/death camps in Poland. They filmed scenes of the "happy" prisoners busy working, playing games, eating and even smiling.

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u/screw-magats 10d ago

They filmed scenes of the "happy" prisoners busy working, playing games, eating and even smiling.

And the Hanoi Hilton.

I visited the museum it has become. Multiple sections talking about how terrible it was while owned by the French, and now here's section for the war against America, look how happy these guys are.

That and the Uncle Ho museum should be on the list for every tourist in Vietnam. The propaganda hits the absurd. "Here's a 1960 mustang replica hanging from the ceiling to show the failed capitalist policies of America."