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| 2009-12-21 |
| Kindly forgive the link to Anti-war.com. Of course the link is that makes this news so delicious. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday to review a lower court's dismissal of a case brought by four British former Guantanamo prisoners against former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the detainees' lawyers charged Tuesday that the country's highest court evidently believes that "torture and religious humiliation are permissible tools for a government to use." I read reports linked to the discussions: one of the treatments rises to mis-treatment or torture. That is what is so insane about the contentions by those who would disarm us: They want us to believe that a prisoner refusing water is torture. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 ION TOPIX > BOOK: OSAMA BIN LADEN NEARLY KILLED PRESIDENT CLINTON IN 1996 [anti-POTUS Entourage bridge bomb during Philipines visit]??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-21 23:27 |
| #3 "torture and religious humiliation are permissible tools for a government to use." Is that the pervue of Stone Age, pedophile, extremists? |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-12-21 17:38 |
| #2 The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., had ruled that government officials were immune from suit because at that time it was unclear whether abusing prisoners at Guantanamo was illegal. As I understand it, this is patently untrue. There was always a long list of things our people could not do, hence there were no thumb-screws or iron-maidens at Guantanamo. These clowns changed what was on the abuse/no-go list, and now want to say the changes are retroactive. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-12-21 09:19 |
| #1 ... [N]ot permitted to work. Time to bring back the chain gang. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2009-12-21 08:43 |