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Government as laid down by our fore fathers, should always support the protection of those rights and liberties established as guiding principles guaranteed to us by the US Constitution and Our Bill of Rights. That is why all public servants sworn to office swear an allegiance and an oath to protect and honor the principles set forth by the US Constitution. Somehow, somewhere along the way that oath has become meaningless as everyday big government attacks and maims the very heart of the articles that laid the foundation to make this nation the great country it had become. With the passing of the the Military Commissions Act of 2006, almost 800 years of international precedence to protect human rights through habeas corpus law was nullified into non-existence and replaced by a new and terrifying expansion of tyrannical Executive rule. "The president can now, with the approval of Congress, indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorize trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. Fearing the loss of Republican power in the mid-term elections, the inept and overly corrupt GOP congress has now authorized the President to establish special military tribunals to prosecute 'terrorist' suspects accused of threatening National Security. The rules permit the exclusion of a defendant from trial should 'secret' evidence be presented in a case and allows for conviction based on hearsay evidence or coerced statements solicited through torture. This Draconian legislation also authorizes a three-officer military panel the power to determine a detainee's status as an 'enemy combatant' and whether they are qualified for indefinite detention without the right of a habeas corpus petition to challenge the legality of detention in federal constitutional court. The law also allows the president to ""interpret the meaning and application" of international standards for prisoner treatment meaning that the CIA can continue their secret program of kidnapping, excuse me 'rendition,' interrogating suspects abroad, outsourcing them to territories where the rule of law does not exist, and torture can be used unabated. There is even a war crimes immunity clause to protect interrogators for past actions which the US Supreme Court in June said violated U.S. and international law. Those that had committed such acts could have been prosecuted as war criminals for past behaviors. Interrogators had been refusing to continue the program as implemented prior to the passing of this law, but now it's business as usual with even greater move toward instituting new techniques as this law also narrows the range of activities that constitute a violation of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions which outlaws torture, cruel, and inhumane treatment by international standards. The most heinous aspect of this Draconian legislation is that it expands the definition of what a detainee is to include US citizens labeled 'enemy combatants' or 'domestic terrorists' by Section 802 of the first USA Patriot act which states, "domestic terrorism means activities that-- `(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; `(B) appear to be intended-- (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States .' Anyone who offers "material support" to someone engaged in hostilities against the US can be held indefinitely in military detention, regardless of whether he or she actually engaged in hostilities,

Cheney said the war on terror will not end in our lifetimes. He also said in a Sept 16, 2001 interview with Tim Russert of Meet The Press, "We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we're going to be successful. That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective." Cheney seems to have known that torture would be used to extract information from people considered terrorists. They are trying to rationalize that America needs to be able to torture 'terrorists' to protect the people. In an interview Tuesday with WDAY of Fargo, North Dakota, Cheney was asked if "a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives." The vice president replied, "Well, it's a no-brainer for me, but for a while there I was criticized as being the vice president for torture. We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in." The people, however, are worried about the indiscriminate torture of everybody including American citizens. One has to remember that according to Patriot Act I, an 'enemy combatant' is anyone who engages in expressing dissenting view or opinion against government policy when not satisfied with current policy. Under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, any person deemed an 'enemy combatant' whether an American citizen or not, can be tortured, detained, and denied Constitutional protections should the Executive branch consider that person a threat. Jacob Hornberger wrote, "The only reason that Americans do not find themselves at Gitmo is because the Pentagon, in its discretion, decided not to send Americans suspected of terrorism to Gitmo. That discretionary decision could be changed at any time, just as the current policy of "rendering" foreigners to Syria and other tyrannical regimes for torture can be changed at any time to include Americans. The same holds true for Americans accused of terrorism in the future - they could easily find themselves before a kangaroo military tribunal fighting for their lives rather than in a U.S. district court. After all, no one should forget the Padilla doctrine. Even though Jose Padilla, an American citizen, is in federal court now, the president and the Pentagon have made it perfectly clear that they now have the power to arrest any American for terrorism and send him to the military for punishment, bypassing the federal-court system. In fact, there's little doubt that if Padilla is acquitted in federal court, the feds intend to yank him back into military custody as an "enemy combatant" in the "war on terrorism," despite the bar on double jeopardy in the Bill of Rights." "The provisions of Bush's new torture law mean that Americans have lost the key, constitutional right on which Anglo-American criminal law (and criminal-law procedures in true democracies in general) is founded; that's the basic right of an individual to know why he or she is being apprehended and detained. Now, technically, as in Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, Mao's China or Pol Pot's Cambodia, anyone labeled an "enemy combatant" - again, by whom; by Bush? - can be whisked away and never heard from again. That kind of authority, in the hands of corrupt or untruthful politicians, may or may not be an effective tool in some kind of "war on terror," but it certainly can be a useful tool when it comes to silencing their opponents." said Edward M. Gomez, a former U.S. diplomat and staff reporter at TIME. There is a case pending right now where an Iraqi born American citizen, Mohammed Munaf, is in the fight of his life against the Iraqi and US governments for alleged involvement in a conspiracy to abduct and hold hostage for two months three Romanian journali

I made this video without any nativity of what it will accomplish. We will not leave Iraq in the state it is; and shouldn’t. However, the purpose of this video is to hopefully be used by other organizations to put pressure on the Congress. In September a number of bills will be debated, such as the fiscal budget for 2008. A war profiteering bill is also slated, one that would punish companies that our gouging us taxpayers. In addition, the Petraeus Report will be released to the public on September 15th. Overall, a very eventful month for the Congress and any pressure that can be put on them may be beneficial to the citizenry. More information can be found at… http://www.strike911.org http://www.myspace.com/generalstrike07 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4157941601 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00181.htm http://digg.com/politics/A_general_strike_has_been_proposed_for_9_11_07_No_work_school_or_shopping

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Habeas Corpus In The Constitution

What the hell is going on in this country?!?!

Bush has stated over and over, "We do not torture detainees" and yet when Senator McCain, a once held prisoner of war, dissented against the White House position on the treatment of detainees and together with the Senate passed a law outlawing the torture of detainees; Bush issued a 'signing statement' - an official document in which a president lays out interpretation of a new law -in which he reserved the right to ignore Congressional demands outlawing the torture of prisoners. He claims authority as commander in chief to bypass any law, in context of broader powers to protect national security. Bush believes he can waive any restrictions which would impede his ability to protect the American people from the threats of terrorism. "The executive branch shall construe [the law] in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President...as Commander in Chief... in achieving the shared objective of the Congress and the President...of protecting the American people from further terrorist attacks." Bush had stated on numerous occasions not only that America does not torture detainees, but that America is not running black sites in which detainees are flown to some obscure location where the rule of law does not exist so that extreme measures can be used to excise information it deems necessary to protecting our citizenry. Having had the program of extraordinary rendition called into question by several federal judges, the White House has had to fess up to the existence of such a program. "I cannot describe the specific methods used - I think you understand why," Bush said during a 5th anniversary speech of the attacks of September 11th. "If I did, it would help the terrorists learn how to resist questioning, and to keep information from us that we need to prevent new attacks on our country. But I can say the procedures were tough, and they were safe, and lawful and necessary." He reiterated his insistence that detainees have not and will not be tortured, claiming "I want to be absolutely clear with our people, and the world: The United States does not torture. It's against our laws, and it's against our values. I have not authorized it, and I will not authorize it." What the world and Americans do not realize is that what we the people traditionally consider torture, is not the same torture Bush speaks about since attorney general Alberto Gonzales redefined torture in a narrow context. The Torture Convention defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person". The Bush Administration declares torture by a different standard, namely that, to constitute torture, the pain caused "must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily functions or even death." Methods generally understood by the world as "torture" would be permitted by this newly and narrowly altered definition. According to the new 'definition' everything up to the point leading to death is not torture as defined by the Administrations new policy. The redefining of torture, allows the administration to deny criminal behavior while still allowing the implementation and committing of such atrocities. This also gave CIA and military interrogators the 'go-ahead' to try many drastic measures considered to tough in previous sessions prior to the 'war on terror.' Bush wants the CIA to be exempt from prosecution under the war crimes act for cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees and is now hard at work propagandizing the American public and Congress to have the Geneva Conventions modified. He knows that his administration has committed war crimes against humanity, which he and many members of his administration are liable to be prosecuted under according to international law. If he can exempt the CIA from such prosecutions then not only can they continue this sinister program of kidnap and tor

Video on Ron Paul and what he's doing now.. PASS THIS ON!!! Feel free to DL it, link to it.. PASS THE WORD PEOPLE!!!

Some methods used by the CIA and military interrogators include using a scalpel to make numerous cuts on the penis of Benyam Mohammed, who was arrested at Karachi airport on April 10 2002, and flown by a US government plane to a prison in Morocco. Other techniques include forceful beatings and even stomping which resulted in the paralysis of Sami Al-Laithi, a result of his detention at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Al-Laithi is now confined to a wheelchair with two broken vertebrae. Images released from the Abu Ghraib scandal show the forceful rape, sodomy of Iraqi men, women, and children and include depictions of electrical wires attached to the genitalia of detainees. There were also images of dogs being used to attack detainees. Would it shock the American people to know that John C. Yoo, a Justice Department attorney who helped devise the Bush regime's doctrine of torture, condones even the torture of terrorists children to extract information from their terrorist parents. When asked a hypothetical question in which the child of a terrorist suspect had their 'genitals crushed' in front of his father in order to extract information; Yoo answered there is "no law" and "no treaty" that would forbid such an atrocity, assuming that it was authorized by the president: "I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that," Yoo said. How can an attorney for the Justice Department condone the torture of children, even terrorist children to safeguard the security of the American people? We know through Seymour Hersh's work that the policy of torturing and sodomizing terrorist children had in fact been implemented because the Pentagon has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib to extract information from their parents. "[There's] a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher. Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking.... They are in total terror it's going to come out." Manuals used by the U.S. Army's School of the Americas between 1982 and 1991 condoned executions, beatings and many other human rights abuses. John Yoo admits that he regards the sexual torture of children to be a legal and justifiable tactic, if authorized by the president. Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on December 7, 2005 declared: "The absolute ban on torture, a cornerstone of the international human rights edifice, is under attack. The principle we once believed to be unassailable-the inherent right to physical integrity and dignity of the person-is becoming a casualty of the so-called war on terror." The world now knows that the torture of detainees was not a result of a few bad apples, but is and was a direct consequence of orders coming all the way from the President and relayed through the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to troops on the ground. Why else would Bush fight so hard to legitimize his administrations stance on torture and extraordinary rendition? He and the Vice-President had lobbied congress to exempt the CIA from the McCain Bill outlawing torture by US Personnel and when they failed; Bush issued one of his infamous signing statements claiming authority to interpret the law anyway he sees fit even if it means ignoring it. We know that it is the administration that was and is responsible for implementing torture on a broad scale. Interrogators as well as detainees have made public claims that torture does not solicit valuable information and fearing such treatment detainees will admit to anything just to have the torture stop even a former U.S. Army Interrogator describes why "Torture is the worst possible thing we can do to detainees." Bush keeps citing the criticalness of continuing this CIA prog

Habeas Corpus - Alex Jones & William Lewis - 4-18-08 - PrisonPlanet.tv Subscriber Edited Video. Contains 8 Minutes of footage from William Lewis' Documentary "Washington You're Fired." This clip is loaded with awesome information and facts about the how certain elements inside the US Government have been manipulating the 1st Amendment and Habeas Corpus. There's also a really cool 15 minute interview with Film Maker William Lewis that covers a lot more about his movie "Washington You're Fired". Alex Jones also takes a few callers during the show and talks about Shattered Union. Edited by wreckless~deezynes for AEJ Productions. www.infowars.com - prisonplanet.tv

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Please make some calls on the Habeas Restoration amendment today [..]. (S.185 has morphed into S.2022 as a potential amendment to the defense bill currently under debate.) I am told through the Congressional grapevine that a vote on the amendment is likely for Tuesday - thats tomorrow! - and that pressure needs to especially be applied to the following Senators: Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Hagel, Lugar, Craig, Collins, and Alexander. Please, call your own Senators and voice your support for the restoration of habeas rights and respect for the Constitution and the rule of law.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007 KEITH OLBERMANN

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks out Fathers and sons George Bush Sr's corrupt idiot son is elevated to the White House where he has succeeded in doing more damage to America than any external enemy in its history. Meanwhile, the deeply informed, insightful, patriotic son of Robert F. Kennedy is all but banned from the airwaves. This tells you everything you need to know about why America is where is is today and what track it's on.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks out . Fathers and sons George Bush Sr's corrupt idiot son is elevated to the White House where he has succeeded in doing more damage to America than any external enemy in its history. Meanwhile, the deeply informed, insightful, patriotic son of Robert F. Kennedy is all but banned from the airwaves. This tells you everything you need to know about why America is where is is today and what track it's on.

This is a clarion call for a US national TIME OUT, and a call for the immediate resignations of both Bush and Cheney!

This is a 2 minute version of the previously posted TIMEOUT segment. This is a logical demand for Bush and Cheney's resignation, since they have not met their official oaths of office for more than 6 years.

A clip of my documentary about the European Union "United States of Europe" part 9 of which this is a response to shows how our country now perfectly resembles George Orwells 1984 Big Brother Police State nightmare with a specch by Gordon brown and a brilliant animation about Big Brother Britain Big Brother animation clip http://www.bigbrotherstate.com Gordon Brown New World Order speech http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6862855453701508360 United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 1/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ3YcI2pe30 United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 2/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b61pTFjR74Q United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 3/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGH_Y_BWZfs United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 4/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFM4sDfN31I United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 5/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfhaCSjiM9c United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 6/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxGdX4TK9mA United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 7/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfabC5YiaTA United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 8/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSNg_CaHoWQ United States of Europe:The Lisbon Treaty/Constitution P 9/9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6nxeS1k8E

A bare bones documentary, made with free materials A look at the history of the European Union the involvement of Great Britain a video to show that the european politicans are imposing the 2005 failed European Constitution on the citizens of the European countries by passing practically the same failed document as a brand new reform treaty the lisbon Treaty in order to avoid nation wide referendums in all members states. In this part we look at the common law british justice system, what rights have been given up on our behalf and how it will change. we compare it with the corpus juris legal suystem of the continante common law http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/hale/co... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law civil law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_la... http://www.bartleby.com/65/ci/civilla... corpus juris http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-C... http://www.caef.org.uk/cj44.htm harmonise laws http://euobserver.com/9/24979?rss_rk=1 http://www.era.int/web/en/html/nodes_... habeas corpus http://www.habeascorpus.net/asp/ 101 reason to leave the EU http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org... supremacy of parliament http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/... Paris Rome Single European Act Amsterdam Nice European Constitution lisbon Treaty Habeas Corpus Corpus Juris Innocent till proven Guilty Trial by Jury QMV qualified majority voting EU European Union European Commission Council of Ministers European Court of Justice European Council European Ministers Membeers of European Parliament Soverignty Democracy Fascism Fascist Marxist Marxism Communism Communist Totaliterian State