[Grovenet] King George . . . ?

[Eric Canon]

I happened to listen last night to Fresh Air on
OPB. Terry Gross interviews Joseph Margolies who
represents some of the detainees at Guantanamo.
Here's the description:

 "Civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies' new book
is Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential
Power. Margulies has represented several
prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay Detention
Center, and he believes that current U.S. policy
is a legal and ethical disaster. He says that few
new prisoners are arriving at Guantanamo, but the
population at Bagram prison in Afghanistan is
growing rapidly."

This is another of those shows that our Stevens,
Robert, Tom and Lena will choose not to explore,
but some of the rest of us need to listen to this
to understand the severity of lawlessness
employed by the Bush administration. They hold
people in Guantanamo and make no charge, release
no name, sent them off for torture, employ
extreme measures in an attempt to learn what
these people know (un-American behavior by any
measure). If we behave like this, is this still a
free country? If a person can be locked up with
no explanation and no avenue for appeal, is there
any hope left for them or for us? What if they
are really innocent all along, as some of them
have been shown to be? What if you confess as you
are tortured? How do you establish your innocence
after you confess?

This is "in your face" oppression by the king.
Listen and see if you don't agree.

Here's the link:

http://tinyurl.com/qb6fn

--- Bob Browning <rab at jurislex.com> wrote:


---------------------------------
    Interesting article on the limits of
executive authority . . 

http://tinyurl.com/qm8af

bob "who, me?? Follow the law??" browning
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