Five'll Get You Ten
-- Pavel Constantin, RomaniaWhy she's neither fish nor flesh
--Henry IV (III, iii), Shakespeare
Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes
Even the losers keep a little bit of pride
They get lucky sometimes
--Even the Losers, Tom Petty
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Federal District Court is hearing the habeas corpus case of six-year Guantanamo detainee, Mohammed Jawad, who was a teenager when captured.
Jawad was accused of throwing a granade, though the judge in the case, Ellen Segal Huvelle, said that 90 percent of the case had been based on his confessions, which were extracted under torture and followed death threats by Afghan officials. Huvelle said, “There is no evidence otherwise” (U.S. Judge Challenges Evidence on a Detainee.)
The New York Times reports troublingly, "Of about 200 habeas cases in the federal court in Washington, judges have so far ruled that five Guantanamo detainees are properly held and that 26 are not." Only 5 of 31 were adjudicated as being properly held -- about 15% of detainees can be justified legally.
Interesting is that though 26 of these defendents are deemed improperly held, they are not being released, either. So, why did they even get their day in court? If they are still in prison, then they did not win. They are losers, and nobody cares.
Where is America storing its collective conscious?
Labels: gitmo trials, guantanamo detainees, mohammed jawad, phony war on terror, PWOT
posted by rangeragainstwar at 6:45 AM
3 Comments:
Ranger,
Collective consciousness??
Surely you kid?! Really, the collective consciousness is now manufactured for all of us by the Ad Men and elites and then transmitted via the magic of the boob tube! At this point, short of a direct intervention, or perhaps when they come for one of the elites themselves, our "collective consciousness" will continue to be focussed on the Outrage of the Day (TM) -- a local arrest dispute built into a national case, the death of the (ad Men-crowned) "King," or the "cheating" involved in new, hi-tech swimsuits.
But surely, not on the abrogation of basic, human rights, the need to reorganize our economy, the lack of health care, etc. etc.
SP
SP, You can add steroid use to your list of phony concerns.
Where are we hiding our morals and our outrage? The right wingers preach hate and violence and what do we do?
jim
Jim,
The right wingers preach hate and violence and what do we do?
Indeed, what SHOULD we do? For one, I surf to points like yours on the intertubes to get a daily does of realistic, clear headed thinking and discussion. Without this daily therapy, I'd probably would have gone postal.
More importantly, I think the best they we can do is simply stand up for ourselves, in public, and shout down the "little Stalins" (as I like to call them) by merely calling them for what they are. Hate mongering, un-American hypocrites.
And also covering/hiding/turning over every possible copy of Glenn Beck's latest spew on display at my local Barnes and Noble!
Petty revolution against these people can work.
SP
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