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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Judge critical of Guantanamo war crimes case is dismissed

http://www.latimes.com/news/natio...gitmo31-2008may31,0,4476118.story

Excerpt:

A judge hearing a war crimes case at Guantanamo Bay who publicly expressed frustration with military prosecutors' refusal to give evidence to the defense has been dismissed, tribunal officials confirmed Friday.

Army Col. Peter Brownback III was presiding over the case of Canadian detainee Omar Khadr. Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, in his role as chief judge at Guantanamo, ordered the dismissal without explanation and announced Brownback's replacement in an e-mail this week to lawyers in Khadr's case.

Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Bad judge, didn't follow orders. Of course Bush/Cheney had him dismissed. If Robert Mugabe or Hugo Chavez did something like that, there would be world outrage, but this is what we've come to expect of the U.S.

Extraordinary rendition without evidence, incarceration without trial or charges, torture--all just another day's business by the world's sole stupidpower. All done in the name of democracy.

You know how to tell fascism from democracy? If it was done by Hitler, it was fascism. If it is done by a member of the Bush family that supported Hitler, it is democracy.

Suppose that 9/11 was an inside job (which I believe). If the U.S. government had ordered and carried out 9/11 to justify invading Iraq and eliminating U.S. freedoms, it would have known that it was the guilty party and that nothing short of torture could have forced anyone else to confess to crimes they hadn't committed. So torture was necessary for the purpose of national security, if you define national security as protecting the Bush administration from investigation or punishment.

It reminds me of the towns in Texas, Mississippi, and other places where they framed, tried, incarcerated, and executed the first black person they could find whenever a white person killed somebody, so as to close the case and direct attention away from the actual murderer.

And now they get some dumb judge who actually wants to see evidence? The evidence is irrelevant! On with the trial! Off with his head!