Poll: 44% of Americans favor torture for terrorist suspects
Unless it is performed don you and yours, right, shit-chompers?
Key quote:
"In the ordinary lawsuits that we have, you can win, but here we have an opponent that goes to get the law changed. It makes it time-consuming." -- Charles Carpenter, a Washington-based lawyer with Pepper Hamilton
Second quote:
"After a Bosnian court let them go for lack of evidence, the men were seized in their homes and taken to Guantanamo Bay, where they have been held for more than six years without charges."
Sort of makes you proud, doesn't it, 'murkn?
"Detainee fight gets bigger, costlier for long-battling Boston law firm; Six Algerian terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay for more than six years without charges have won the right to petition for release, increasing the stakes for their pro bono defenders" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | June 25, 2008
WASHINGTON - Now, as critics of the recent Supreme Court ruling are devising ways to undo it with new laws or even Constitution amendments, lawyers at Wilmer Hale are preparing for an even longer, more expensive fight to get their clients released.
Defending terrorist suspects in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was so unpopular that lawyers for John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban arrested in Afghanistan, removed their law firm's name from the case out of fear that their offices would be attacked. In recent years, conservative commentators and a Pentagon official have publicly questioned why wealthy firms would aid America's alleged foes.
I'm so tired of that DAMNABLE BLACK-BAG INSIDE JOB!!!!
And they are only "alleged" enemies? WTF?
But by 2005, the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based group coordinating the defense of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, had convinced dozens of firms, solo practitioners, and federal defense counsel that constitutionally protected liberties must be defended.
The lawyers, known informally as the "Guantanamo Bay Bar Association," won partial victories in federal courts and even the Supreme Court. But after rulings in their favor, Congress passed new laws to keep the detainees in custody. "We never knew it would be this fight to the death," said P. Sabin Willett, a Boston-based partner at Bingham McCutchen, who assembled a team of about 10 lawyers to represent a group of ethnic Uighurs from China at Guantanamo Bay.
Also see: U.S. Tortures for China
Charles Carpenter, a Washington-based lawyer with Pepper Hamilton, said "In the ordinary lawsuits that we have, you can win, but here we have an opponent that goes to get the law changed. It makes it time-consuming."
Which basically means there IS NO LAW -- save for BUSH'S FIAT DICTATORSHIP!!!!
Wilmer Hale's Guantanamo clients are six Algerians, who were arrested in Bosnia at the request of US authorities, who accused them of plotting an embassy attack. After a Bosnian court let them go for lack of evidence, the men were seized in their homes and taken to Guantanamo Bay, where they have been held for more than six years without charges. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that they have a Constitutional right to petition a federal judge for release.
HOLY SHIT!!!!
They fucking KIDNAPPED INNOCENT MEN and IMPRISONED THEM for NO REASON!!!!
America is finished, readers!
We need to DUMP THIS GOVERNMENT RIGHT NOW!
TAR, FEATHER and HANG!!!!!!!
Meanwhile, an Arizona congressman, John Shadegg, and Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and close adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, have vowed to pass new laws to keep the detainees in custody.
Let's START with THEM, huh?
And after ALL THIS TIME, the Globe finally found its editorial voice:
ALTHOUGH THE treatment of detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has blackened the image of US power around the world, the issue has garnered only passing attention so far in the presidential race.
Yeah, and WHY WOULD THAT BE, shit MSM?
Pfffffttt!
But the problem will not go away. Last week, the Cambridge-based group Physicians for Human Rights reported on the physical and psychological damage suffered by 11 detainees. On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that the military had improperly designated a Muslim man from China as an enemy combatant.
Yeah, PROOF of Bush Administration War Crimes!
The decision by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit followed a Supreme Court ruling June 12, which restored the habeas corpus rights the Bush administration and Congress had taken from Guantanamo prisoners. The two court decisions and the human rights report are a withering rebuke of President Bush's policies.
So what? They already said they ain't gonna listen to the court!
Until recently, Senator John McCain, the author of an amendment to ban torture in interrogating detainees, could point to a sharp difference with Bush on this issue. But in 2006 he voted to strip prisoners of habeas corpus rights, which allow them to challenge their imprisonment in court. Earlier this year, McCain voted to sustain Bush's veto of a bill banning the CIA from using abusive interrogation methods. Senator Barack Obama opposed the 2006 law and favored the limits on CIA interrogations.
Yeah, too bad your shit news coverage minimizes and hides those facts about the "Straight Talk Express!"
For its report, Physicians for Human Rights arranged for extensive two-day medical examinations of former detainees, none of whom was ever charged with any crimes.
That's because there AREN'T ANY CRIMES to charge him with!
It is WESTERN GOVERNMENTS and ISRAEL that CREATES, FUNDS and DIRECTS the "terrorists" to carry out their "terrorist events."
NO LONGER FOOLEYED, shitters!!!!!!
The detainees said they had been subject to prolonged isolation, stress positions, temperature extremes, sexual and religious humiliation, menacing dogs, and death threats.
In other words, TORTURE!!!!!!!
As Leonard Rubinstein, the organization's president, said last week, these "authorized techniques" led to unauthorized beatings, electric shocks, and sexual assaults, which prove, he said, "that once torture starts, it can't be contained."
I can't believe the Globe editorial staff allowed the word TORTURE into their editorial?
Well, what ya gonna do about it, Globe?
The report does not name those who mistreated the detainees. Identifying them, and holding them accountable, is the responsibility of the US government.
Then there will be NO ACCOUNTABILITY, will there?
In a preface to the report, General Antonio Taguba, who led the Army's investigation of Abu Ghraib, writes, "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
There is that WORD again!
And he also said, "There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes."
Why did you leave that out, Globe?
Repairing the harm this abuse has done to the nation's name should begin with airing the issue in the campaign and lead to the punishment of those responsible."
I'll give you seven to start with, Globe:
"In addition to Bush, suspects in the alleged conspiracy include a who’s who of top officials in Bush’s first term, principally Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet and their aides, says ABC News."
So, WHEN are the WAR CRIMES TRIALS?
