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POPSObama courts conservatives with new faith program “While I could sit in church and pray all I want, I wouldn’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I went out and did the Lord’s work,” he declared. Oh, GREAT! Another Fairy tale believer in the WH! Sweet Jeebus and Ramona. What a revolting development this is.
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POPSOn Suing The Enemy “It bears repeating that our opinion does not address the content of the law that governs petitioners’ detention. That is a matter yet to be determined.” Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who is nothing if not plain-spoken, was his usual clear and precise self on this occasion, “The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.” And not just Americans, if Mr. Justice Scalia proves as prescient as he is plain. Already prisoners at Guantanamo who have had to be released have returned to attacking American troops and/or civilian targets, and had to be recaptured. Having again entered the maw of the American judicial system, who knows if they will ever face justice? That question, too, remains Yet To Be Determined.
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POPSMcCain Courts Clinton Voters in Ohio Baghdad Johnny's attempts to poach Clinton voters are less ridiculous than they have been , but no less desperate. For the skinny on what other battle ground states look like, click here -- hint, it ain't good for McCain.
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POPSWould Garlic Protect Us From the Courts? More insanity from Texas which seems to have more than its share. This superstitious stupidity really needs to end. This religious immunity from critical scrutiny has existed for too long. It's time to begin shinning a light on these barbaric practices practiced by this death cult.
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POPSSome Iraqi News Not Reported By "The Media" Meanwhile Bill Roggio reports that a released Gitmo detainee is back to the front and is responsible for attacks inside Iraq : The detainee, Abdullah Salih al Ajmi, drove a armored truck packed with explosives into a Iraqi army base and detonated it, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/06/released_guantanamo.php Just the tip of the iceberg I’m afraid after our courts release a large chunk of these guys. Al Qaeda in Iraq, through its puppet organization the Islamic State of Iraq, released its latest propaganda video on June 23. The video contains a montage of attacks throughout Iraq, and features two Kuwaiti al Qaeda operatives who conducted strikes in Mosul. One of the operatives was released from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Islamic State of Iraq used footage taken at Combat Outpost Inman by this reporter in Mosul in March of this year.
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POPS"The 9/11 Report is a fraudulent document" We further believe that elements within the US government were complicit in the murder of thousands of people on 9/11/2001. This event brought Canada into the so-called "War on Terror," it changed our domestic and foreign policies for the worse, and it will continue to have negative consequences for us all if we refuse to look at the facts. THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to: (1) Immediately launch its own investigation into the events of 9/11/2001 on behalf of the 24 Canadian citizens murdered in New York City. (2) Act lawfully on the findings of its own investigation by helping to pursue the guilty parties in the international courts. Committed to truth and accountability vancouver911truth.org
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POPSIn Espionage Trial of Ex-Aipac Employees, Appeals Court Sets High Bar for Prosecution Court Says AIPAC spies cannot be convicted unless they "had a bad-faith reason to believe the disclosures could be used to the injury of the United States or to the aid of a foreign nation." Wow, the courts sold us out to Israel once again. Whose damn country is this anyway. the older I get the more likely answer seems to be Israel's country, not ours. We prosecute spies all the time, but if they happen to be from Israel the courts just step in and decide arbitrarily to make it harder than usual.
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POPSMichael Savage Wants to "Hang" JAG Officers This utter bullshit because it's officers like Lt. Cmdr. William C. Kuebler, "a self-described born-again Christian and conservative who has 'never voted for a Democrat'" who have the courage to challenge these kangaroo courts "designed to get criminal convictions" with "no real evidence," or the the fact that military prosecutors "launder evidence derived from torture." I suppose Savage also wants Lt. Cmdr. Charles D. Swift hanged. As the NYT reports, Swift helped "take the case of Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, to the Supreme Court. The ruling in 2006 invalidated the Bush administration's first military commission system." Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley needs execution too, I suppose, for defending a "British resident accused of plotting with al-Qaida to bomb apartment buildings in the United States." Marine Corps Maj. Michael D. Mori defended Australian David Hicks an accused al-Qaeda trainee.
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POPSFISA Legislation: Congress Still Dithering! That bill hit a wall when the trial lawyers asked Pelosi to preserve their chance to earn huge contingency fees in lawsuits against the telecoms alleging the sort of class-action tort claims used to blackmail big companies into high-dollar settlements. These lawsuits aren’t merely the latest evolution in class action ambulance chasing. They are a form of “lawfare”: the use of the courts to interfere in America’s conduct in the war the terrorists are waging against us. The compromise measure reportedly enables the telecoms to obtain civil immunity by showing a court a request for cooperation from the government that assured the company that cooperation was legal. The trial lawyers and several liberal senators, chief among them Wisconsin’s Russell Feingold, are trying to block the compromise. Their amen chorus among the politically-activist media are working hard to help them.
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POPSSummary of Thursday's Supreme Court actionsSummary of Thursday's Supreme Court actions Do you think that if I commit a massive crime, like say, I spill several tons of oil into my surrounding environment while in a drunken stupor, that the courts would give me two decades to work on my defense? Would they wait 2 decades while I fought it. It's the Exxon Valdez issue at the bottom of the clip that really gets me. How could it have gone on this long, unless Exxon paid for preferential treatment. If this isn't a sign of oil/government alignment, then nothing is. Exxon will never pay even a fraction of what the judgment against them deigned.
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POPSEasing of laws that led to torture hatched in secret And why did they do this? "Only one of the five War Council lawyers remains in office: David Addington, the brilliant but abrasive longtime legal adviser and now chief of staff to Cheney. His primary motive, according to several former administration and defense officials, was to push for an expansion of presidential power that Congress or the courts couldn't check."
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POPSMcCain Strongly Resents Supreme Court Ruling Not that I expected differently from Bush's Heir to the Presidency. Now imagine Mr. McCain going to HoTse Minh City, former Saigon, or Hanoi. Our relations with them have just begun to improve and prove to be of vital interest.
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POPSBin Laden's Right-Hand Man Out On Bail He was also banned from associating with a long list of named people, including Osama bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Rachid Ramda, who was convicted in France of masterminding a series of bombings in 1995. Abu Hamza, another firebrand preacher convicted of inciting hatred at a London mosque, was also named. Abu Qatada won a lengthy appeal against his extradition from Britain to Jordan in April and at the time, the Home Office Minister, Tony McNulty, pledged the ruling would be appealed and he would not be released. Described by SIAC as a "truly dangerous individual" who has played a central role in major terrorist activities associated with al-Qaeda, Abu Qatada has, in his absence, been convicted twice in Jordan for conspiracy to carry out bomb attacks on two hotels in Amman in 1998 and for providing finance and advice for bomb attacks in Jordan planned to coincide with the millennium.
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POPSMcCain Bellyachiing about the Boumediene Decision Did you notice it was the conservatives (the so-called) "originalists" who were in the minority. That habeas corpus was considered by the founders as a natural right of HUMAN BEINGS is so obvious one would have to be blind and illiterate to miss it. Of course, McCain is bellyaching because he helped to write the awful bill the court shot down.
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