Bittle
01-13-2008, 11:45 PM
If this has been posted already, forgive me.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7622
Other key elements of the act include:
-- legalizing torture against anyone and lets the President decide what procedures can be used on his own authority;
-- denying detainees international law protection and lets the executive interpret it;
-- empowering the President to convene "military commissions" to try anyone he designates an "unlawful enemy combatant," and hold them in secret detention indefinitely;
--denying speedy trials or any at all;
-- allowing evidence obtained by torture or coerced testimony to be used against detainees in trial proceedings;
-- permitting hearsay and secret evidence to be used; and
-- denying due process, destroying human dignity, mocking the rule of law, and establishing the principle of kangaroo court justice for anyone the executive targets.
etc.
What a great country we live in right now.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7622
Other key elements of the act include:
-- legalizing torture against anyone and lets the President decide what procedures can be used on his own authority;
-- denying detainees international law protection and lets the executive interpret it;
-- empowering the President to convene "military commissions" to try anyone he designates an "unlawful enemy combatant," and hold them in secret detention indefinitely;
--denying speedy trials or any at all;
-- allowing evidence obtained by torture or coerced testimony to be used against detainees in trial proceedings;
-- permitting hearsay and secret evidence to be used; and
-- denying due process, destroying human dignity, mocking the rule of law, and establishing the principle of kangaroo court justice for anyone the executive targets.
etc.
What a great country we live in right now.