We Used to Be America
Jul 31st, 2005 at 10:12 pm by Susie
But those days are gone:
Leaked emails from two former prosecutors claim the military commissions set up to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay are rigged, fraudulent, and thin on evidence against the accused.
Two emails, which have been obtained by the ABC, were sent to supervisors in the Office of Military Commissions in March of last year - three months before Australian detainee David Hicks was charged and five months before his trial began.
The first email is from prosecutor Major Robert Preston to his supervisor.
Maj Preston writes that the process is perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and that the cases being pursued are marginal.
“I consider the insistence on pressing ahead with cases that would be marginal even if properly prepared to be a severe threat to the reputation of the military justice system and even a fraud on the American people,” Maj Preston wrote.
“Surely they don’t expect that this fairly half-arsed effort is all that we have been able to put together after all this time.”
Maj Preston says he cannot continue to work on a process he considers morally, ethically and professionally intolerable.
“I lie awake worrying about this every night,” he wrote.
The Fascist Party has to have some convictions on record before the elections niext year
I mean, other than some of their own people.
How can they pretend to be the Party of National Defense and Security if only their own people get convicted of espionage?
Where have all the values gone?
Allow me to add a third to that, Chris.
As Michael Moore said, “Dude, Where’s My Country?”
The Republicans in power claim to love America, but if they had been around in July of 1776, can anyone doubt that they would have opposed the Declaration of Independence?
Had the Declaration somehow been written in spite of them, what would have been their attitude toward the proposed Constitution, then toward the Bill of Rights, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Nineteenth Amendment?
What would have been the outcome of Brown v. Board of Ed. had their twisted judicial appointments been in place during the 1950s?
Can anyone imagine that we would have any Miranda rights if they had been in power?
In other words, if these people had anything to do with it, there would be no such country as the America we have been taught to love.
They would have strangled her before she could stand on two feet.
Well, if they let any of these prisoners go, it’ll mean admitting wrong. And since admitting wrong is a sign of weakness, all the prisoners must be held until they’re dead. Simple, eh?