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GuantáNamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama's Shame


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: guantanamo )

Eleanor
- 106 days ago - andyworthington.co.uk
Bush's Justice Department lives on in two depressing court rulings
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Mary Neal (186)
Thursday August 13, 2009, 5:07 pm
First of all, am I really the first person to comemnt at this strand? I have to inquire, because people play with my Internet submissions. Last night while at YouTube, my computer was suddenly taken to a screen with Mutant Justice League cartoon characters. I frequent write and use the Justice League characters to represent the USDOJ. The mutated Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman were studies in evil. I was frightened, just as the cyberstalker intended. The truth is that the DOJ "mutated" years ago, and there has been no subsequent CHANGE.

The circumstance you complain about is indicative of that fact. So is the problem that my family faces. My handicapped brother - an American citizen - suffered a secret Guantanamo-style arrest and death right here in the USA, and the DOJ refuses to investigate it or do anything to prevent my stalking and my family's terrorism for asking "WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL?"

You waste your time tring to get judicial process in the U.S regarding terror in the Guantanamo camp, anytime the same thing may be planned for YOU and was already done to my brother, without any investigation being granted. See H.R. 645 - a congressional bill proposing six (6) concentration camps in America FOR Americans. The proposal is/was on the table to use these types of camps to enforce you to accept EXPERIMENTAL vaccines against H1N1 under military force.

I feel bad for the people in the War on Terror camps. But it is also time for you to think about your own safety and write to your congressperson about plans for YOU - H.R. 645.

See my Sharebook, if they let you. My Internet usage is seriously curtailed, because free speech and free press are the first to go when a country is headed into fascism.

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/sharebook/513396753

My Care2 RSS feed from my Sharebook was stopped when I protested the idea of enforced vaccines.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Thursday August 13, 2009, 5:28 pm
How long would it take a new U.K. Parliamentary leader to institute "change" Eleanor ... would it happen instantly .. within 6 months, 8 months, 12 months

The U.K. has a LONG LONG HI$TORY of colonial occupation ... would you like to make a compari$ON?
 

Elisa M. (103)
Thursday August 13, 2009, 5:32 pm

Thanks for the articles Eleanor :) This site is amazing.
 

sue w. (153)
Thursday August 13, 2009, 9:13 pm
PATRIOT ACT still remains. We can ALL be accused and held indefinitely, our possessions and homes seized and never returned. Subject to Gitmo policies.
 

Joycey B. (693)
Friday August 14, 2009, 5:41 am
Noted with thanks Eleanor.
 

Eleanor B. (891)
Friday August 14, 2009, 10:24 am
It is, Elisa. Blue B - no one is more critical than I am of the present UK government or of the British Empire of history. I am not into point scoring. So when will Guantanamo be closed? And all the other prisons where people are tortured and held without trial? Sometime, never?
 

marie T. (34)
Friday August 14, 2009, 3:46 pm
What happens when they are closed yes some innocent people have suffered but you all seem to forget sept 11
a lot of not so innocent people have been held and stopped in their evil tracks if you had lost family and friends to terrorism you might not be in such a hurry to stop the goings on a lot of American lives have been saved because of the tactics of torture in these prisons what do you want dead innocent Americans yes there will be errors but without these places there will be hundreds of ~DEAD Americans terrorism will only get worse I hope it does not close and a lot of Americans agree with me also a lot of the world agrees
 

David Gould (146)
Friday August 14, 2009, 5:22 pm
Marie,
I have lost a member of my family to terrorism in 7/7. So I speak with more authority than you do.
Firstly I have never and will never condone the illegal use of torture to extract extremely questionable 'evidence' that does not amount to a hill of beans.
Have you ever been tortured...water boarded for instance...read about it and gain a little education...it will be good for your soul...when the torture is so extreme you will say anything and agree anything to make it stop...reliable evidence ...I think not.
Second the running of Concentration camps was outlawed after the end of the Nazis and the International declaration of Human Rights set up to enshrine all of our rights as fellow Human Beings...including your sorry tail...so don't go stomping all over such rights so lightly...how about if masked people came for you in the night and 'rendered' you (Kidnap they call it by any other name) to another country bound and gagged and blindfolded on a transport plane...and there stood by while your fingernails were extracted with pliers...not so darn funny is it now...then a little electric probe was attached you a sensitive part of you (if you have one use your imagination) and shocks of increasing magnitude are passed through you...and that is only the start of a process that can take months until you wish you were dead...then you are locked up in a huge purpose build prison for years and interrogated, water boarded and chained naked to the concrete floor for days in your own filth...
and never once does anyone tell your family where you are, what charges are against you...nor are you...you are denied any form of legal representation, screamed at, shouted at, beaten with wire flex till there is not one part of your body untouched...fed food that is against your beliefs (if you are vegetarian you are forced to eat meat) and then you are released after seven years with not so much as an appology or any right of legal comeback...
So Marie...your rather ignorant and stupid words above are looking all the more stupid now...

I lost a very dear and loved member of my family to terrorism
But nothing and I mean nothing will ever allow me to excuse the barbarism and the pure inhuman behaviour of how the USA treated these people...As Gandhi said...Western Civilisation might be a good idea one day.

(In case you think I made all this up listen to those who came home from such experiences and you will find that I have given a sanitized version for the sake of the weaker stomachs here on Care2)

I say again torture will never solve terrorism...it will feed it.
 

marie T. (34)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 5:57 am
Oh dear you are on your band wagon sprouting David. Grow up David thank God you live in America.
Would you rather live in Palestine. There will always be torture that is how man eventually rids the world of the Hitlers Amins and Sadams . What do gooder rubbish you speak you are almost laughable if it was not so seriously dangerous. How dare you presume anything about my life or experiences you are a typical person where the saying A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS DANGEROUS applies I am sorry for your loss but it is sad that you have no concern for the American people without these prisons how many more lives would have been lost,
Yes there will be casualties but look around the world and be grateful how lucky you are to have a man like Obama for your President Think about the torture that gos on in Israel and the world does nothing.
Stand up and be proud to be American and think positive for the future of your country. Calling people names is so childish we are not interested in you sprouting gory details it is almost as if you enjoy it Look within yourself
 

David Gould (146)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 9:09 am
Marie I see you are sprouting your ignorance yet again!

You are a poisonous little tick...if you had bothered to check your facts...clearly you are only interested in your our myopic view of the world...you will find that I live in Scotland...now I can see that knowledge and wisdom are not your strong points...but that is in the UK...duh!

When America stops going round this world like the classroom bully...invading any country that it wishes to steal wealth from and killing anyone who gets in its path then perhaps I will accept advice from them...until then it is you that needs to grow up, gain a little education and wake up and smell the coffee...the Bush Bully era is just so over and the world hates the very sound of the USA at present because it is a country that sanctions torture and concentration camps...as I said quoting a truly educated man Gandhi (ever heard of him have you? I doubt it) he thought Western civilization might be a good idea. I stand behind his remarks.
And no I would not like to live in Palestine where USA sanctioned bullies, the Zionists, murder unarmed people...
Scotland is nearly totally civilised...It is in the UK you know....part of Europe...oh get your atlas out and see for yourself...and no I will, thank God never have to be proud to be American...I am more proud to be a world citizen who believes in peace and justice. Two totally incomprehensible notions to one like you.
 

David Gould (146)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 9:15 am
I have checked my facts and see that you come from...London...UK.

Not sure if you know this but to the North of you is this great country called Scotland which is also part of the UK...OK?
 

Jim Waldie (13)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 10:37 am
David If you had checked Eleanor comes from Wishaw which is also in Scotland
Noted and made comments last night.
Yours Aye.
Jim W
 

Eleanor B. (891)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 12:37 pm
David, thank you once more. You are a dear friend, a wonderful human being and I am proud to know you. It's the UK government's instigation of torture (think Farid Hilali) and its craven complicity in US torture across the globe that now makes me wish for an independent Scotland. I want to live in a country I can be proud of where torture would be unthinkable. And I want to have a government that would be more easily held to account than the bunch of thugs in Westminster - though there are some decent human beings there though not nearly enough to make a difference. Jim, thanks so much for noting.
 

David Gould (146)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 3:55 pm
Jim, thank you I am very aware of where my friend Eleanor comes from. Had you checked your facts you would have seen that my remarks on this thread were addressed to the troll from London. How is Jedburgh these days by the way?
 

David Gould (146)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 4:01 pm
Eleanor, I am with you there...but would we insist on having dithering Brown back...or should we let the English keep him a mite longer...he seems to fit in with the thuggery that is the leadership of the realm these last years. He was far too close to Tony bLIAR for my liking.
 

Eleanor B. (891)
Sunday August 16, 2009, 6:06 am
Oh, David - if he were to return to Scotland I would be tempted to give him a taste of his own medicine and seek to have deported as an unsavoury character who would threaten our national security by wanting to have nuclear weapons on our soil and trident subs in our waters. But seriously, he just loves being where he is and I would doubt very much if he would want to come back here. And he is just the same as Bliar - interested only in power and self-glorification. And dearie me, I didn't realise Jim thought I deserved those comments from you! What a laugh! Anyway, well said, David.
 

David Gould (146)
Sunday August 16, 2009, 10:16 am
Marie...keep talking this sort of personal attack and I will flag you again.

Your every word proves your "troll status" and these uncalled for comments prove you have no proper argument and have hence descended to the level of the kindergarten.

You have just earned yourself what we call north 'o the border a "Home Goal" There is never any call to make these sort of ignorant statements nor personal remarks which just demonstrate your lack of intellectual acumen...one wonders if you are also a post graduate and if so in what subject.
 

Eleanor B. (891)
Sunday August 16, 2009, 10:54 am
I flagged her too, David. I hope she keeps her word and stays away, the wee troll. Imagine someone like that insulting you! Huh!
 

David Gould (146)
Sunday August 16, 2009, 4:48 pm
Its OK Eleanor...we have tough skins this side of the country...we have to to survive the mighty midge!

One downside is that she threatens to unleash her brand of poison on another site...hope they have a good 'Troll Patrol' and send her packing.
 

Brigitte T. (52)
Monday August 17, 2009, 4:56 am
David G thank you for your insight, and for your intelligent comments telling the truth. Trolls will be trolls but this one was especially disrespectful, especially considering the personal tragedy you shared.

To Troll Marie:
"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind" Voltaire

Except that people like "Marie" are neither good nor patriots, they are just under (troll)cover fascists. They do not believe in equal rights, because to them only certain lives are worth saving, depending on their race, nationality and social backgrounds. They only believe in an elite.
 
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