Saturday, January 12, 2008
It's in the job description
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit delivered a chop block to the rule of law in the US, yesterday. First they upheld the fiction that Guantanamo is not US territory without explaining why Cuban law is not observed on the base.
The end of the United States of America as we knew it. Unless you believe there is any integrity left on the Supreme Court.
Of interest, Janice Rogers Brown, one of President Pottsie's appointments was in dissent on the first part of the ruling.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the detainees captured in Afghanistan aren't recognized as ``persons'' under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because they were aliens held outside the United States. The Religious Freedom Act prohibits the government from ``substantially burdening a person's religion.''Then they stuck the shiv into the back of Justice by claiming that those folks doing the torturing were just doing their job.
The court rejected other claims on the grounds that then-Attorney General John Ashcroft had certified that the military officials were acting within the scope of their jobs when they authorized the tactics, and that such tactics were ``foreseeable.''You see, if Crisco John Ashcroft says that torture is OK, then you can't be sued for breaking the law of the land because it is just part of the old "9 to 5". We knew it was going to happen so there is nothing wrong in it happening.
``It was foreseeable that conduct that would ordinarily be indisputably `seriously criminal' would be implemented by military officials responsible for detaining and interrogating suspected enemy combatants,'' Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson wrote in the court's main opinion.
The end of the United States of America as we knew it. Unless you believe there is any integrity left on the Supreme Court.
Of interest, Janice Rogers Brown, one of President Pottsie's appointments was in dissent on the first part of the ruling.
Judge Janice Rogers Brown dissented with parts of the opinion, saying that ``it leaves us with the unfortunate and quite dubious distinction of being the only court to declare those held at Guantanamo are not `person(s).'McClatchy did not mention her position on torture as part of the job description.
'`This is a most regrettable holding in a case where plaintiffs have alleged high-level U.S. government officials treated them as less than human,'' Brown wrote.
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Well, she focused on the core issue, which is that the people at Gitmo are being treated as if they are less than human. A court saying that certain people are, well, not people, is even sicker than slavery-era America saying that black people were only 3/5ths of a human.
- Badtux the Bigotry Penguin
- Badtux the Bigotry Penguin
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