A friend of mine said; “I hear that the New York Times paid the standard rate for the Yemeni prisoner’s article (€150), and the money was sent to his family back in Yemen. I confess to thinking, and then feeling guilty for thinking it, “who knows what they will do with that money, will they spend it on food for hungry children, or will they put it to building a bomb like the one which exploded in Boston, which cost $100?”. There you have it. My friend’s moment of dilemma helped remind me how, beyond the basic principle of it, there is a difference between prevention and repression. With the supposedly dangerous prisoners detained without charge in Guantanamo, and rendered dangerous, the difference between the two has been eliminated. Repression wants to be a form of prevention.