Bob Morris @ Dec 19th 2003 08:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Strom
“I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there’s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches.”
Strom Thurmond, 1948, 24 years after he fathered a daughter by his 15 year old black maid. But gosh, isn’t a bed IN a home?
Bob Morris @ Dec 19th 2003 07:45 - Category: Unfiled ;
Federal 9/11 detainee beatings caught on tape
After 9/11, The Department of “Justice” rounded up hundreds, maybe thousands, of Muslims, generally on minor visa violations that would be ignored were they Brits or a Canadians, threw them in jail, let the guards badly abuse them, then lied about it.
However tapes of these beatings and mistreatment have emerged.
In a surprise development, hundreds of videotapes that were originally said by the Department of Justice not to exist were discovered recently by its own internal affairs bureau and document many of the detainee abuses listed in an earlier internal report. In one case, the tapes show federal prison guards pushing detainees’ faces into a wall-hanging t-shirt emblazoned with the U.S. flag and the words, “These colors don’t run!”
“The tapes show that immigrants were abused at the hands of their jailers.” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director. “Hundreds of immigrants were detained even though they had no connection to the terrorist attacks and now we find out that the government abused many of them while in detention. Clearly, the Justice Department’s war on terrorism quickly became a war on immigrants.”
Shocking in their scope and variety, the abuses included actions like the U.S. flag incident described above, other instances where federal prison guards slammed detainees against walls and bars by their heads or necks, the misuse of strip searches and physical restraints to punish detainees, and the practice of illegally recording detainees’ meetings with attorneys.
There’s another word for slamming detainess heads into walls, and that word is torture. And it happened right here in the US, with a wink and a nod from the Bush Administration.
Bob Morris @ Dec 19th 2003 07:43 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bush whacked by courts in 2 terror rulings
This is good news. Courts are (finally) slapping down the noxious neo-fascist attempts by the Bush Adminstration to imprison anyone they want any time they want, without them being allowed to see a lawyer or even know what they are charged with. And if that isn’t neo-fascism, then tell me, what is?.
Federal appeals courts in California and New York handed the Bush administration’s war on terrorism two stunning legal setbacks Thursday, ruling that the government doesn’t have unchecked power to jail enemy combatants without access to the courts.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Manhattan ruled that President Bush has no authority to hold American citizen Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant without congressional approval and ordered Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to release the alleged dirty-bomb plotter from military custody within 30 days.
In San Francisco, a federal appeals panel said the government can’t keep some 660 foreign fighters captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan locked up indefinitely at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Bob Morris @ Dec 19th 2003 07:42 - Category: Unfiled ;
Goodbye sunshine
Each year less light reaches the surface of the Earth. No one is sure what’s causing ‘global dimming’ - or what it means for the future. In fact most scientists have never heard of it.
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