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"IT'S DANGEROUS TO BE RIGHT WHEN YOUR GOVERNMENT IS WRONG" - Voltaire
LETTER FROM PROFESSOR JOHN PROTEVI - LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY - TO 'THE ADVOCATE'
"I'm not writing today to protest the recent Congressional bills allowing President Bush the power to "interpret" the Geneva Convention's bans on torture.
Let others describe what legalizing "waterboarding," "long time standing," "cold room," "stress positions," and other practices means in terms of our self-understanding as a people and our moral standing in the community of nations.
Let others explain how this means that the government will now openly treat people in the 21st century the way slave owners treated their slaves in the 19th century.
Let others explain how this bill fits with the decent respect to the opinions of mankind we once prided ourselves on possessing.
Let others explain what use a free press is when it passes on without comment, let alone protest, the Administration's use of Orwellian phrases like "interrogation techniques."
Let others explain how we could have defeated the Nazis and the Soviets without such laws.
No, today I'd like to remind us that the Congress has just given away the right to habeas corpus, which is the very heart of English common law since the Magna Carta of 1215.
What that means is the President can simply label anyone, anywhere, American citizen or not, an "enemy combatant," and lock them away indefinitely without the ability to have their day in court.
What this means is the end of the rule of law and the beginning of the rule of men. What this means is the end of the American experiment in individual rights.
What this means is that we no longer live in the country of our ancestors.
NOW IS, INDEED, THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY."
JOHN PROTEVI - 2006-10-01 - Story Url.:
http://projectbraintrust.com/blog.html?p=84Bush and the PNAC managers are apparently so busy defending “freedom” that they now throw people in jail if they criticize their actions...
ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 - 2006, GEORGE BUSH AS THE SO CALLED 'PRESIDENT' OF THE US SIGNED THE ''MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006'' INTO LAW.*
THIS BILL:
* re-establishes President Bush’s military tribunals, which were rejected by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional
* legalizes U.S. war crimes committed before December 30, 2005
* disallows any person harmed by the U.S., in violation of the Geneva Conventions, from filing a claim in U.S. court
* strips legal residents of the U.S. of their right to challenge their detention in court if they’re accused of being “enemy combatants”
* abolishes the right of Guantanamo detainees to challenge their detention, which in effect pre-judges all of them as guilty
* approves the “CIA program” that allows waterboarding and other forms of torture
* names any individual, including citizens, as an “unlawful enemy combatant” if they provide “material support” to those engaged in hostilities against the U.S.
It was nice living in a free country, while it lasted. Now, you can’t even criticize the Vice-President without getting arrested.* - [Quote Mr. Bill - Texas - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/yjaqkk]
* ''MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006'' - Wikipedia - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/ydkywt* CRITICIZING CHENEY TO HIS FACE IS ASSAULT? - Url.:
http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc100406?cheney* THE UNITED STATES IS DEFIANT OF ANY LAW ANYWHERE - Chertoff's lawless SS ('Security Service? - For whom?) roaming the US and it's fiefdoms. The bill signed signed by would-be 'emperor' George Busholini into law also: ''legalizes U.S. war crimes committed before December 30, 2005.'' - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/yjaqkk* US HENCHMAN PINOCHET ALSO THOUGHT HE COULD "LEGALIZE" TORTURE - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/y9p2vs* PENTAGON THREATENED TO KILL JOURNALISTS - FPF/HR - Granma - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/bkzum* R.I.P. Habeas Corpus & Powerless judges - Are we entering America's darkest hour? - Url.:
http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/10/2015.php* THE AMERICAN CONFESSION MACHINE: a 50.000 Volt 'stun belt' will make anybody 'confess' anything - Url.: tinyurl.com/lznn2
* AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - THE UNITED STATES AND IT'S GULAG'S SECRET JAILS - Url.: web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGPOL100142005
* AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNS US FOR VIOLATIONS OF UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE - Url.:
www.wsws.org/articles/2000/may2000/tort-m12.shtml
* THE ICC - THE 'INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT' IN THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, is absolutely in it's present form NO valid alternative for Justice, respecting human rights. The ICC never protests any of the horrible gigantic war crimes against humanity by the US/Israeli war machine. - Url.: tinyurl.com/p4lxz
* US LEGALIZES TORTURE OF AMERICANS AND COLLABORATORS - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/eom7k* US "Death Squad Protection Act" - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/6xdfw * DEFINITION OF SEMITES from the Collins English Dictionary - [
http://tinyurl.com/zj9y4] - "Semitic: a member of the group of Caucasoid people who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the Ancient Babylonians (Iraqis), the Assyrians (Syria), and the Phoenicians (the Lebanese of today). Semitic: a branch or sub-family of languages that includes Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew.” - Palestinians and Lebanese for instance, are semites. The centuries old JDL gutter-cliché: "anti semitism' has always been a fake accusation, abused globally to kill discussions. Not anymore: Never again! But what the US/Israeli war machine is doing, is anti semitism on a global scale.
* THE LAW ON FREE EXPRESSION - Aryeh Neier - American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU - "Defending My Enemy" - "The law on free expression covers everybody, and thus that in defending it for anybody you defend it for everybody." - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/ymz2mv* THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST SCAM EVER IN HUMAN HISTORY: 'THE FED' - Url.:
http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/FEDERALRESERVE.HTML* SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.:
http://www.st911.org/ * BRITISH MP GEORGE GALLOWAY STATED TOTALLY CORRECT: ''BLAIR, OLMERT AND BUSH ARE MURDERERS'' - Url.:
http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/5072.shtml * US PROPAGANDA: R.I.P. AL JAZEERA - DAVID FROST 'FRONT MAN' AT AL-JAZEERA INTERNATIONAL - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/y6us8n*THROW OUT WAR PROPAGANDISTS LIKE THE BBC, FOX, CNN ETC.! - Url.:
http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/07/1632.php * THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: "The huge omnivorous herd consumes everywhere on our earth as much as it can grab, and tramples millions of human beings to death. That doesn't seem to matter. The 'elephant boys' don't speak about the bloody pulp underneath the feet of the big animals: instead they give them a bath in the mainstream." - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/np823 * MORE LINKS & BACKGROUND LINKS TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE - If after checking a factual error is found, pls. send an email so it can be corrected. - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/fhln9* The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!
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