There’s no point getting worked up when some individual government “bad apple” violates your rights and abuses you, because you still have recourse to the courts. We can always get justice in the courts. That’s what we’re told. Right? Well…
John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor who advised President George W. Bush on interrogation of terror suspects, can’t be sued for allegedly authorizing a prisoner’s harsh treatment even if it amounted to torture, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Since 1982, the Supreme Court has ruled that government officials can’t be held legally responsible for violating individual rights unless those rights were clearly established at the time.“We cannot say that any reasonable official in 2001-03 would have known that the specific interrogation techniques allegedly employed against Padilla, however appalling, necessarily amounted to torture,” said Judge Raymond Fisher in the 3-0 ruling.
He said the high court didn’t rule until 2004 that inmates held as enemy combatants were entitled to humane treatment, and the scope of their rights is still unclear..
Look, I’m not here to praise Jose Padilla, or to bury him. For all I know, he’s the real Tim Osman. I know absolutely nothing about him except what the government told me.
And what the government told me for the first four years of his “detention” turned out to be bullshit, didn’t it? If he’d ever in his life even heard the words “dirty bomb,” he’d have confessed to turning out a gross of them. As it is they gave Jack Bauer four years alone with the guy, and I can only assume the reason he didn’t come back with evidence of bombs was because there was no such evidence.
That was four years in a Navy brig, no due process, no trial, no nothing except
sleep deprivation, stress positions, isolation, and extremes of temperature, light and darkness.
Treat me like that for a week, and I’d confess to assassinating Lysander Spooner if I thought it’d get you off my back.
Earth to U.S. Government: When other governments do those things, you’ve always called it torture. You were right.
And the notion that grown people don’t know what torture is when they’re in the process of doing it to someone is not consistent with the idea that those same people are uniquely qualified to rule us because they’re so much smarter than we are and all.
But thank god John Yoo will be all right. I was really worried about that.
It’s OK. The universal moral law has always existed. Hell doesn’t discriminate about such trivial human definitions or decisions. I really hope the guilty parties repent before they go there.
Don’t get me started on that treasonous motherfucker.
Find the nearest object two inches taller than he is and string his ass up off the ground.
Don’t forget David Addington either.
Just catching up after being gone for some months… mental hiatus, etc.
Want to say… love your cynical smart ass.
What a Mess! Had a Lawyer, after two and a half year’s didn’t do anything but provide me to the Defentdant! Whom by the way, admitted to quilt, has 10 violations “I found out”, made me wait over “1 hour 40 minute’s for the Defense attorney to arrive for said deposition, then ordered “Medical Records after all these years”, didn’t read them, just went through the billing, upon he submitted a “Offer Letter” to Defentdant; whereas he found out my main provider had “Falsifted my Medical Report’s for almost (3) year’s! ” You could say we had a rather large disagreement, as I’d hired him specifically on the reason’s for my doctor hadn’t been providing me with the right treatments since the accident! What was he doing this entire time? This “Doctor had actually caused me more harm during this time, along with this accident, a double whammy! I couldn’t believe it.. So I have a “Medical Malpractice /Negligence suite, a Pending PI Suite, now a lawyer that didn’t do his Ethical Duty, got his hand caught! Help! What’s going on in this world today? Now this opposing firm, sent “Supplemental Demands to my Lawyer, which he didn’t take care of, but waited, as he didn’t want to take care of issues at hand “falsified Medical Record’s “, which would have been resolved if he would have sent for them right when I hired him “2014 July”! Two year’s of advance notice, hello I had already told him of the difficulties. . Now this firm states, I only responded to one, and not the other, so the Judge Sanctioned me $450. and wants me to answer the same questions that were answered in the deposition…. Nothing has changed! “Prior doctor’s I’ve seen to the accident in regards to my ankle. Seems like hurrassment to me, and waste of time. Just a way to fine me since I answered everything is the same, “asked, answered! ” That was the way I put it in letter form. Can anyone help, I’m dying with trying to file all the above by myself.. Right is right! Thank you for your help.
Sincerely and with care,
Michelle