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sent by Francis A. Boyle - Apr 13, 2007

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Endorsing the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts

The latest edition of the American Journal of Imperial Law has an
article by Harvard Law School's Bemis Professor of International Law
Detlev Vagts endorsing the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite the fact that
they have been condemned by every human rights organization in the world
as well as by the United States Supreme Court in Hamdan.

I am not going to bother to repeat here all the grievous deficiencies of
the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts under international law and US Constitutional
Law.

But I have been personally involved in five court-martials under the
Uniform Code of Military Justice over the years involving war: USMC Jeff
Paterson, the first military resistor to Gulf War I by Bush Sr; Captain
Dr. Yolanda Huett-Vaughn, the highest ranking officer to be
court-martialled for refusing to participate in Bush Sr's Gulf War I;
Capt Lawrence Rockwood, court-martialed by the Army for trying to stop
torture in Haiti; Staff Sgt Camilo Mejia, the first military resistor to
Bush Jr's war against Iraq; and now Lt. Ehren Watada, the first
commissioned officer to be court-martialled for refusing to participate
in Bush Jr's war against Iraq. See my forthcoming Protesting Power: War,
Resistance and Law (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc).

As i can attest from my personal experience, everyone of these
court-martials under the UCMJ have been Stalinist show-trials by the
military.

These five UCMJ court-martials involving war prove the old adage
attributed to Groucho Marx that military justice is to justice as
military music is to music. And the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts are not even
run in accordance with the UCMJ despite the fact that the US Supreme
Court in Hamdan ruled that they should be.

Whenever they are up and running the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts will
constitute Stalinist Show Trials as well as Kangaroo Courts.

And the fact that the Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard
Law School has publicly endorsed the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite
Hamdan proves that Harvard has a Kangaroo Law School:Harvard Kangaroo
Law School.

Along with the 4 torture mongerers on the HKLS Faculty:
Dersh;Parker;Goldsmith and Waco Phil Heymann. And their 2 certifiable
war criminals: Dersh and Goldsmith. And the Dean of the Harvard Kangaroo
Law School Kagan who boasted in the Washington Post that she is "so
proud" to have hired their war criminal Goldsmith. And in the Boston
Globe Kagan boasted that the "future of international legal studies" at
Harvard Kangaroo Law School is in the "good hands" of their war criminal
Goldsmith.

The Harvard Kangaroo Law School Faculty and Deans are no longer fit to
educate Lawyers, Members of the Bar, and Officers of the Court. They are
a joke and a fraud. Groucho Marx would have a field day with
them:Harvard is to Law Schools what Kangaroos and Torture are to Law.

Francis A. Boyle
former Chair, HLS Fund Campaign for Greater Illinois
Francis A. Boyle
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Champaign, IL 61820 USA
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