An American Veteran, former Marine translator held and tortured in 2006 has been allowed by a district judge to pursue his case against Donald Rumsfeld!
CAN WE MAKE AN IMPACT ON THIS CASE?
EDIT A second case is now proceeding: http://www.democracynow.org/...
U.S. District Judge James Gwin ruled:
"The court finds no convincing reason that United States citizens in Iraq should or must lose previously declared substantive due process protections during prolonged detention in a conflict zone abroad," Gwin wrote in a ruling issued Tuesday.
"The stakes in holding detainees at Camp Cropper may have been high, but one purpose of the constitutional limitations on interrogation techniques and conditions of confinement even domestically is to strike a balance between government objectives and individual rights even when the stakes are high,"
The man, who remains unidentified, was abducted just before his annual leave and held for some period of time - details are scarce - subjected to abuse and later released without explanation.
The government's case essentially admits that the man was indeed abducted without charge, but asserts various elements of executive and war-time privilege to dismiss the case.
SCREW THE DEBT DEBATE - What people really need is to wake up to reality.
Because in reality, there's no debt debate, only morons think spending should be cut, and there are serious issues of basic rights at stake in the world, and our best hope in the White House for a liberal democratic future is IGNORING them.
What we need to do as a community is focus on real issues and demand culpability on them - hijack the debate in favor of our own moral outrage, and sneak our real agenda in the backdoor with the opposition occupied.
After all, that's exactly what the radical right has done to great success!
PLEASE HELP ME FIND DETAILS ON THIS CASE, COMMENT BELOW
Here is a listing of STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL CONTACTS please contact yours, demand that they support this plaintiff and ask for more information!
Here is contact information for the Judge who made this ruling, please reference them in your messaging!
Here is contact info for the plaintiff's law firm, please send them support and ask what can be done to further this case and show the people's support!
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If the Obama Administration doesn't want to press for these investigations it's only because we the people are letting him slack off on it.
A Couple of Cossacks Bardo and Desi have already written briefly on the matter.
I WANT MORE!