Fun, Maybe. Fact, No.
It’s been sometime, but let’s see what the dumbest Army Lawyer ever, 2LT Christopher Cross, has been up to. Chris Cross is exercised about the fact the military kangaroo courts tribunals haven’t begun summary executions:
Fun fact: Gov’t prosecutors are not allowed to talk to the media.
Nothing more dangerous and uninformed than an O-1 who thinks he knows something.
Colonel Morris “Moe” Davis, DoD’s chief prosecutor at Gitmo:
The nearly united front among the nation’s legal elite against the White House has not gone unnoticed by the administration. In remarks at a press conference at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base earlier this month, the Defense Department’s chief prosecutor for the military commissions there, Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, said it was “ironic” that big law firms representing large defense contractors such as Boeing Corp. allow their lawyers to represent Guantanamo detainees pro bono.
And COL Moe Davis has certainly talked to the press during the David Hicks case.
From Wikipedia (yeah, open source, I know)
A kangaroo court or kangaroo trial, also known as drumhead court-martial or Drumhead trial, is a sham legal proceeding or court. Kangaroo courts are judicial proceedings that deny due process in the name of expediency. The outcome of such a trial is essentially made in advance, usually for the purpose of providing a conviction, either by going through the motions of manipulated procedure or by allowing no defense at all.
If these are indeed kangaroo courts, why on Earth would they let these guys go free? By definition, they would be summarily executed without due process, not let off scott free on a stupid technicality that wouldn’t even fly in a traffic court. (Oh, the accused was charged with “Excessive Speed” but the state legislature changed the charge to “More than enough speed” last week — hence, charges must be dropped).
Comment by k2aggie07 — June 7, 2007 @ 11:10 pm
I have no problem with Wiki; it’s generally pretty reliable.
The whole notion of Gitmo is ridiculous.
Comment by Administrator — June 8, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
Whats ridiculous about it? Which notion?
Comment by k2aggie07 — June 8, 2007 @ 9:24 pm
The very reason Gitmo was established there is because it’s a legal ‘black hole.’ It was selected at that site because Bush and crew understand Gitmo falls into a legal no-man’s land as far as US laws go. If the Bush administration were truly convinced as to the legality of what’s being done in Gitmo–they could have easily established the detention center in, say, Montana.
Second, Gitmo allows torture of detainees, many of whom have been incarcerated for years without legal representation or even being formally charged. We, in the US, rightly criticize third world nations for pracctices such as this. Yet, it’s being done in our names in Gitmo.
Third, it sets a bad example. We used to enjoy a reputation for justice and fairness in the world. Now, we don’t.
Comment by Administrator — June 9, 2007 @ 11:54 am
Legal black hole? They’re being given a trial, no? Many of them acquitted on what anyone can readily admit to being a technicality? Legal mumbo jumbo is an entitlement for them, apparently.
Torture of detainees? Like giving them Korans (when our own citizen students in public schools are not allowed by law to be given Bibles), allowing them to have AC and hot meals — when our own GI’s are eating MREs? What is this torture you speak of? Perhaps “playing loud music” or flushing a Koran down the toilet?
The chief investigator Air Force Lt. Gen. Randall Schmidt says “no torture occurred” and that there was no “evidence to support the allegation that the detainees were denied food and water.” The most common form of cited “abuse” was the playing of continuous loud music.
You would do well to look up the Bataan Death March or the treatment of the American prisoners on Wake Island, or any other of the myriad examples of torture the Japanese Empire provided us during World War II.
For Pete’s sake, we’re going above and beyond the Geneva conventions for even incarcerating these people. We have every legal right to summarily execute them as non uniformed combatants…and yet we desist, housing them in better living conditions than the free Cuban citizens living just across the fence.
If this is a bad example, the rest of the free world would do well to torture their own citizens the way we’re torturing the detainees at Gitmo.
Want an example? How about a detainee named “Abdullah M., a prisoner who was missing a leg when he got to Gitmo. He was given a prosthetic and rehabbed before being released and repatriated to Afghanistan. He is now sought for involvement in the 2004 bombing of the Islamabad Marriott.” (quoted from America’s Victories, citation “The Gitmo Varsity,” The American Spectator, July 18 2005.)
Comment by k2aggie07 — June 10, 2007 @ 8:59 pm