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POPSWhy Jose Padilla's 17-Year Sentence Should Disgust all Americans Is a corrupted US-American "justice" making the U.S.A. a terrorist rogue state? But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt ... that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation ... And so let freedom ring ... from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. --Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963
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POPSLawfare - Terrorist attack US by demanding trials The author, a lawyer formally part of the Bush legal team declares: “ attorneys think that these decisions are better second-guessed by plaintiffs' lawyers and judges rather than our elected leaders.“ I always thought that was what the rule of law meant -- but if our leaders say it, it must be so ...
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POPS Michael Mukasey Confirmed As Attorney General He sentenced Omar Abdel Rahman, known as the "blind sheik," to life in prison for a plot to blow up New York City landmarks, and he signed in 2002 the material witness warrant that let the FBI arrest U.S. citizen Jose Padilla. That warrant marked the start of a case that wound its way through several federal courts as the government declared Padilla an enemy combatant and held him for 3½ years before he was convicted last month on terrorism-related charges. In an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal, Mukasey criticized U.S. national security law as too weak in some areas by noting that prosecutors are sometimes forced to reveal details of cases at the risk of tipping off terrorists. He is also a supporter of the government's anti-terror USA Patriot Act, wryly writing in 2004 that the "awkward name may very well be the worst thing about the statute."
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POPSWildfire forces Southern Calif Evacuations When it's dry, trees can burn like tinder. Every Summer Australia has a bush fire season. It just started, and is expected to go until February. The Bushfire brigade, consists of people throughout Australia, who help fight fires in their areas. The fact that Fires are expected, never makes it any easier, because fire can be so unpredictable. At the same time as things are drying out to the point where a spark, or a cigarette can start them, there is also less water to put them out.
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POPSCSMonitor: US terror interrogation went too far
Stuart Grassian, a Boston psychiatrist, says Padilla's experience in the brig has left members of his family stunned and frightened. "People who have known him and loved him before his military detention don't feel they can even bear to see him because he is so clearly mentally ill." In 2002, the Justice Department produced a "torture" memo stating that victims would have to experience pain equivalent to organ failure to prove torture. "The development of a mental disorder such as post-traumatic stress disorder, which can last months or even years, or even chronic depression, which can last a considerable period of time if untreated, might satisfy the prolonged harm requirement" to prove torture, the memo says. The doctors say Padilla's psychological condition exceeds even the high standard for mental damage set by the 2002 torture memo. "If you would expect a person to become so deranged as to become psychotically terrified, to me that constitutes torture."
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POPSRemember Jose Padilla? Um ... we screwed that one up After pulling accused -- err, make that formerly -accused -- dirty-bomber (and U.S. citizen) Jose Padilla out of the military justice system, putting him in federal prison, and quietly dropping the sensational dirty-bomb allegation, they find that he is probably too mentally damaged from his two years of brutal interrogations to stand trial. The government's response? You can't trust what he says about what we did to him, because he's too crazy from all the things we did to him. Keep in mind -- no one even alleges any more that Padilla ever was a terrorist .
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POPSThe Case Against Padilla Crumbling An American citizen, arrested in 2002, held without charges in a military prison for more than 3 years--torgured, threatened and perhaps drugged may not be guilty after all. All thanks to the Bush bullies...
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