There have been rumblings from The White House concerning a possible closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility due to the bad image that it has given to the "war on terror". Rumors are that the terror suspects who are being held there will be moved to military prisons around the world, perhaps in Afghanistan or even Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where they could face trials.
I was listening to a radio news report, that said that on Friday, June 22, there was a meeting with Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, National intelligence Director Mike McConnell, and Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace attending.
The news reports have long been highly critical of Guantanamo Bay and human rights groups have decried the terror suspects being held there as being ill-treated and abused. There have been some over stepping "bordering on abuse" by the military and the Bush administration in their handling of these terror suspects, but I think that was more true right after 9/11 then it is now. The suspects who remain in Guatanamo Bay are still considered dangerous, and many of them would be unable to return to their home countries even if they were released as they do not want them to return "home".
One issue I have with the detention facility is that it has been a long time, and there should be a endgame to their incarceration, either they are terrorists or they are not, so get on with the military tribunals. It didn't take this long to hold trials after World War II in Nuremburg for the Nazi's who were tried and that was in a post war Europe, while they were still trying to rebuild their countries. So finding Justice is about the will to do so, and the Bush administration has not been willing to do so!
Guantanamo Bay should probably be closed as it is just one more bad image used by our enemies against an America that is loathed and hated by many people around the world. We are a great nation and the continuing incarceration of suspects who do not seem to have a chance of getting Justice belies who we say we are as a Nation built on "being innocent, until proven guilty".
Let's live up to our ideals Mr. President and order your people to get this resolved right now.
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Karma Bites Nifong
In the first bit of justice in the Duke "rape" case in a long time, former District Attorney, Mike Nifong was disbarred on Saturday. This resulted from the disastrous prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape.
In deciding to disbar Nifong the committee stated that he had engaged in dishonest and deceitful conduct. They said Nifong's early comments about the case , which included a confident proclamation that he wouldn't allow Durham to become known for "a bunch of lacrosse players from Duke raping a black girl" , were purposefully designed to boost his campaign for district attorney.
F. Lane Williamson, the committee's chairman, said that at the time Nifong was facing a primary, and he used this case to further his political ambitions by getting the black voters behind him.
Nifong's lawyer said that he would not be appealling the ruling.
On the web radio cast that I was listening too they reported that the North Carolina State Bar charged Nifong with breaking several rules of professional conduct, including lying to both the court and bar investigators and withholding critical DNA test results from the players' defense attorneys.
The committee, after deliberating for a little more than an hour on Saturday, unanimously agreed with the bar on almost every charge, including the most serious allegations , that Nifong's actions involved dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation.
The attorney's for the formerly accused players, Dave Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty said that they will seek criminal contempt charges against Nifong in Durham next week. It would be perfect justice if he is found guilty, and spends time in the same prison he was trying to put these innocent young men.
It is a shame that they have not filed charges against the young woman stripper who lied about what happened that night, because she is to blame for starting all of the problems in the first place.
These young men should also go after Nifong and the young woman civilly and take their money from them, because sometimes taking their money away from them, is the only thing that can be understood, by those powerful enough to ruin other people's lives.
Hurray for a small bit of justice in a largely unjust world. Good luck to these young men, and may the rest of their lives be a piece of cake compared to the past year of their lives.
Karmic Law served justice to Nifong today!
In deciding to disbar Nifong the committee stated that he had engaged in dishonest and deceitful conduct. They said Nifong's early comments about the case , which included a confident proclamation that he wouldn't allow Durham to become known for "a bunch of lacrosse players from Duke raping a black girl" , were purposefully designed to boost his campaign for district attorney.
F. Lane Williamson, the committee's chairman, said that at the time Nifong was facing a primary, and he used this case to further his political ambitions by getting the black voters behind him.
Nifong's lawyer said that he would not be appealling the ruling.
On the web radio cast that I was listening too they reported that the North Carolina State Bar charged Nifong with breaking several rules of professional conduct, including lying to both the court and bar investigators and withholding critical DNA test results from the players' defense attorneys.
The committee, after deliberating for a little more than an hour on Saturday, unanimously agreed with the bar on almost every charge, including the most serious allegations , that Nifong's actions involved dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation.
The attorney's for the formerly accused players, Dave Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty said that they will seek criminal contempt charges against Nifong in Durham next week. It would be perfect justice if he is found guilty, and spends time in the same prison he was trying to put these innocent young men.
It is a shame that they have not filed charges against the young woman stripper who lied about what happened that night, because she is to blame for starting all of the problems in the first place.
These young men should also go after Nifong and the young woman civilly and take their money from them, because sometimes taking their money away from them, is the only thing that can be understood, by those powerful enough to ruin other people's lives.
Hurray for a small bit of justice in a largely unjust world. Good luck to these young men, and may the rest of their lives be a piece of cake compared to the past year of their lives.
Karmic Law served justice to Nifong today!
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Paris Meet Karma, Karma Teach Paris!
I was going to write about the travesty of justice when Paris Hilton was released from jail to complete her sentence in her home, but has now turned into a column about righteous justice for someone who thought she was above any law, because of her wealth.
What begin as a graceful attempt by the 26-year-old socialite to accept her punishment for violating probation in a reckless driving case ended Friday when a disheveled and tearful Hilton was ordered back to jail to serve out the remainder of her 45-day sentence.
After serving only three days in jail, Sheriff Lee "Celebrity Buttkisser" Baca, in full violation of the Judge's order that Paris not be allowed alternative sentences such as home arrest, let her go to complete her sentence in just such a setting; due to a "medical condition". I am sure prisoners everywhere will be happy to have medical conditions as well so they can go home. Oh that's right it doesn't work that way for regular inmates, only "celeberities" are allowed to use that excuse.
After Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was apparently unmoved by the pleas of Hilton's three lawyers to keep their client under house arrest, the hotel heiress was led from the courtroom crying out for her mother and shouting, "It's not right!"
Friday's hearing was requested by the city attorney's office, which had prosecuted Hilton and wanted Sheriff Lee Baca held in contempt for deciding to reassign Hilton to home detention despite Sauer's express order that she must serve her time in jail.
Sauer gave no explanation of his ruling to return Hilton back to jail, but his comments throughout the hearing indicated he was affronted by Baca's decision to set aside his instructions and release the "celebrity" to her Hollywood Hills home.
Judge Sauer should immediately be put on the Supreme Court so we can see more judicious decisions on a bigger scale. Sheriff Buttkisser should be held in contempt and find himself sitting in his own jail on the other side of the bars. It seems that he has a history of treating celebrities different than regular inmates. There is rich justice and poor justice in his jail and it should be stopped immediately.
Paris Hilton is a rich heiress, whose only claim to fame is her lifestyle of clubbing, drinking, whoring, and breaking the law. It is a sad commentary on our society that so many young women hold her up as a role model.
Hopefully, watching her being taken from the court kicking and screaming back to jail will wake up her young fans and show them what will happen if you lead a life of decadence and destruction.
I am sure Sheriff Buttkisser will have an open invite to the Hilton's home for having tried to circumvent the law for their little whore brat.
Judge Sauer may have saved Miss Hilton's life by putting her back in jail, because she now knows that even with her vast wealth and connections, it cannot keep her above the law if she faces a righteous judge. This could give her a chance to come out of jail a better person, but she probably needed more time in jail for that to happen completely.
She should thank the judge if she does change, because in her race to destruction living her lifestyle she could have died, or worse she could have killed others in her path.
Paris meet Karma, and Karma is the ultimate teacher, as it allows no alternative sentences, only consequences for your deeds and actions! Learn your lesson!
What begin as a graceful attempt by the 26-year-old socialite to accept her punishment for violating probation in a reckless driving case ended Friday when a disheveled and tearful Hilton was ordered back to jail to serve out the remainder of her 45-day sentence.
After serving only three days in jail, Sheriff Lee "Celebrity Buttkisser" Baca, in full violation of the Judge's order that Paris not be allowed alternative sentences such as home arrest, let her go to complete her sentence in just such a setting; due to a "medical condition". I am sure prisoners everywhere will be happy to have medical conditions as well so they can go home. Oh that's right it doesn't work that way for regular inmates, only "celeberities" are allowed to use that excuse.
After Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was apparently unmoved by the pleas of Hilton's three lawyers to keep their client under house arrest, the hotel heiress was led from the courtroom crying out for her mother and shouting, "It's not right!"
Friday's hearing was requested by the city attorney's office, which had prosecuted Hilton and wanted Sheriff Lee Baca held in contempt for deciding to reassign Hilton to home detention despite Sauer's express order that she must serve her time in jail.
Sauer gave no explanation of his ruling to return Hilton back to jail, but his comments throughout the hearing indicated he was affronted by Baca's decision to set aside his instructions and release the "celebrity" to her Hollywood Hills home.
Judge Sauer should immediately be put on the Supreme Court so we can see more judicious decisions on a bigger scale. Sheriff Buttkisser should be held in contempt and find himself sitting in his own jail on the other side of the bars. It seems that he has a history of treating celebrities different than regular inmates. There is rich justice and poor justice in his jail and it should be stopped immediately.
Paris Hilton is a rich heiress, whose only claim to fame is her lifestyle of clubbing, drinking, whoring, and breaking the law. It is a sad commentary on our society that so many young women hold her up as a role model.
Hopefully, watching her being taken from the court kicking and screaming back to jail will wake up her young fans and show them what will happen if you lead a life of decadence and destruction.
I am sure Sheriff Buttkisser will have an open invite to the Hilton's home for having tried to circumvent the law for their little whore brat.
Judge Sauer may have saved Miss Hilton's life by putting her back in jail, because she now knows that even with her vast wealth and connections, it cannot keep her above the law if she faces a righteous judge. This could give her a chance to come out of jail a better person, but she probably needed more time in jail for that to happen completely.
She should thank the judge if she does change, because in her race to destruction living her lifestyle she could have died, or worse she could have killed others in her path.
Paris meet Karma, and Karma is the ultimate teacher, as it allows no alternative sentences, only consequences for your deeds and actions! Learn your lesson!
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