Greenwald: Nothing Novel About Guantanamo or the Israelis Who Terrorize Americans
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Subject: Greenwald: Nothing Novel About Guantanamo or the Israelis Who
Terrorize Americans
Date: Nov 18, 2009 2:12 PM
GREENWALD, BELOW
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Well, Guantanamo is hardly the first
or the last place liberty was lost.
This DCF is a secret "court" and they're
free to lie to the police about anyone
who would get in the way of their criminal
kid-brain-damaging enterprise:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GAUVIN_DEATH_PENALTY.htm
AAG Jessica Gauvin didn't like me reporting
her crimes to the USDOJ, the Statewide Bar
Counsel, and the Commission on Human Rights.
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
And she didn't like my handing over several
scientific journal articles that I got out
of the Yale Medical Library about how all
psychotropics are brain damaging:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9-B7G3Ha8
And James Phillips didn't like the idea
of being sued for malpractice:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PENISBITERDOCS.htm
So, they called me a terrorist and threw
me in jail for 8 months, the first 7 weeks
of which, I was not allowed to be aware of
what the charges were against me. It turns
out, every single statement Jessica Gauvin
made to the New Britain Police was a lie.
Which was why my bond was $50,000 "CASH ONLY."
[Clue to the validity of the charges; Gauvin
didn't want to go to jail herself, for
defrauding the court numerous times...]
So, please. We have CRAZY perverts, the
Bigs taking advantage of the DCF's innate
stupidity and under-education,
http://www.actionlyme.org/RAGAGLIA_GRANDJURY_DETAILS.htm
and Israelis *everywhere* in this country,
running roughshod over the Constitution.
How many of those Lyme criminals are
Israelis?
All of them except Edward McSweegan (who
goes to Israeli bioweapons plants), John
J. Connolly and Imugen's Phil Molloy:
Sigal, Wormser, Steere, Klempner, Zuckerman,
the AIG Greenbergs, Shapiro, Schoen, Nowakowski,
Nadelman, Fish, Feder, and Zemel.
Secondarily, most people don't believe
the 911 stunt was anything other than
what Webster Tarpley says about who is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JnhjiT__M8&feature=related
running this country and in cahoots with
what small, belligerent, evil little tyranny
of a country over there in Towel-head-
land, whose American Part-Timers wanted
a piece of the pipeline action, as revealed
by Sibel Edmonds (Grossman, Feith, Perle,
Wolfowitz, Ledeen...)
BUT! There's always a butt because
the win of this game is a guarantee;
there are plenty of Canadians who
hate this country. Most of them,
in fact. They will never go for the
Amero and NAFTA. This gang won't win.
It's a matter of how many Americans
will lose their lives or their liberty,
really, in the next big gig- that the Bigs
and their little rabid Israeli-fiends are
going to lose.
I found, personally, that the ACLU wasn't
interested in anything except gays. In
other words, the ACLU was not interested
in these secret DCF "courts" and the lack
of Constitutionality related to their illegal
spying (DCF hires private investigators
who bug your home and your phone and
your car, and then they lie to the courts
about what they find out with the wiretaps)
and the total lack of due process.
DCF kidnaps your kids, executes the
sentence before the data is heard before
a judge, and at that, if you actually
TRY to have the judge look at or hear
the evidence, that's it. GAME OVER.
'FALSE ARREST, and duh DCF never has to
prove any of their false criminal charges
because everything that happens in DCF
secret court, is exactly like Guantanamo:
"They're GUILTY but we can't tell you
how we know."
See how perfect that is to use against
a whistleblower?
It's happened many times:
http://www.actionlyme.org/LYNNAE_LAKE_CASE.htm
Phil Inkel's kids:
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
DCF had Phil ^^ Inkel arrested before he
could testify in that case about how
his children were abused by DCF.
Like usual.
This one "judge" in my false criminal charges
case, Carmen Espinosa, refused to even
allow me to speak to the court.
Espinosa absolutely refused to let me speak
and I was dragged out in my chains... just
like that, while I was trying to explain
that my kids have Lyme and I am a scientist:
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
and that it was GAUVIN HERSELF, with
her nitwitnesses - the actual guilty parties,
James Phillips - who came up with that
"UNABOMBER CHEMIST" crap.
But if you complain about a judge, you
get arrested again:
http://www.actionlyme.org/VIKING_INTERVIEWS.htm
Judge Kaplan:
http://www.actionlyme.org/KAPLAN_IRISH_PEOPLE_BAD.htm
Kaplan doesn't like Irish people because
they're like the Palestinians- they
didn't like Occupation.
Nothing new here.
Move along, folks.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-12
Published on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 by Salon.com
The Weekly Standard's ACLU Smear Indicts Only Itself
by Glenn Greenwald
Even for The Weekly Standard, this bitter, juvenile McCarthyite attack
on the ACLU by Thomas Joscelyn sputters with so much fact-free,
impotent, and self-defeating rage that it's hard to believe it was
printed. Right in the headline, it oh-so-cleverly smears the ACLU as
"Al Qaeda's Civil Liberties Union"; it ends by proclaiming the group
to be "al Qaeda's useful idiots"; and it's filled in the middle with
all sorts of trite innuendo circa 2002 that anyone who believes in the
Constitution -- i.e., radical "far leftist" doctrines such as "trials"
and "due process" -- secretly harbors love for the Terrorists and
hatred for America ("The ACLU has worked diligently to undermine
America's stance in what was formerly known as the 'war on terror,'
and has even been willing to disseminate propaganda on behalf of our
jihadist enemies"). What the article actually -- and ironically --
reveals is how much contempt The Weekly Standard and much of America's
Right has for the nation's core political values and how, in the
process, they do more to aid Islamic extremists than even those who
directly fund and advocate for them.
The primary piece of incriminating evidence Joscelyn waves around in
his little briefcase is this ACLU-produced video featuring five Muslim
men who were held at Guantanamo without charges for years and then
released. In the video, they recount the torture and abuse to which
they were subjected, as well as the impact which prolonged, due-
process-free imprisonment by the U.S. has had -- and continues to have
-- on their shattered lives.
Joscelyn insists that -- even though they've never been charged with,
let alone convicted of, anything -- these men are guilty, evil
Terrorists. To make his case against them, he relies on Bush-era
documents containing unproven, untested, and uncharged allegations.
But what he dishonestly -- though understandably -- fails to note is
that each of these individuals are available to appear in the ACLU
video because they were released from Guantanamo by the Bush
administration [Moazzam Begg (released 2005); Omar Deghayes (released
2007); Bisher al-Rawi (released 2007); Ruhal Ahmed (released 2004);
Shafiq Rasul (released 2004)]. If, as Joscelyn claims, the ACLU are
Al Qaeda's "useful idiots" for producing a video containing interviews
with these individuals, what are Bush officials who released them onto
the streets? He also fails to note that time and again, government
allegations against Guantanamo detainees -- the source on which he
principally relies -- have failed to withstand even the most minimal
judicial scrutiny to which the 2008 Supreme Court ruled detainees are
constitutionally entitled. The Government has now lost roughly 28 out
of 33 habeas corpus hearings brought by detainees since the Supreme
Court's ruling, often before some of the most right-wing, executive-
branch-deferring judges in the country, who have found there is no
credible evidence to support the government's accusations.
So lame and desperate are Joscelyn's smears that his attack ends up
indicting himself, his magazine and his political movement far more
than his intended target. Here are the profoundly un-American
"principles" he implicitly -- and at times explicitly -- embraces:
1. If the Government asserts accusations against Muslims, those
accusations shall be deemed true, even if they're made in secret and
without being tested by any court.
2. Even if the Government voluntarily releases Muslim detainees
from captivity without charges, they should still be assumed to be
guilty, dangerous and evil Terrorists.
3. Muslim detainees have no right to counsel, no right to be
charged with a crime, no due process rights to contest the accusations
against them, and no right to be free of torture.
4. Anyone who works to provide basic due process and legal
representation to Muslim detainees, or who publicizes their wrongful
detentions and abusive treatment, shall themselves be deemed suspect
of harboring allegiances to Al Qaeda.
To see how alien this is to any political values historically
understood as "American," compare The Weekly Standard's
neoconservative manifesto to what Thomas Paine thought about such
matters, as expressed in the final paragraph of his 1790 Dissertations
on First Principles of Government:
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men
to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He
that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself.
Or compare the neocon mentality to Thomas Jefferson's warning, in a
1789 letter to Paine, that trial by jury -- which the ACLU safeguards
and most of America's Right despises -- is "the only anchor ever yet
imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles
of its constitution."
Between (a) an organization that works tirelessly for basic due
process and Constitutional liberties for everyone and (b) a political
movement which demands their rejection, does it really take any effort
to see which side is vigorously defending core American principles and
which side is waging war on them? And given how due-process-free
imprisonment is one of the most potent recruiting tools for Islamic
extremists (as reported by David Rohde, Johann Hari, Gen. McChyrstal,
and even the Pentagon's own 2004 Task Force) -- to say nothing of the
endless aggressive wars cheered on by The Weekly Standard's play-
acting warriors -- does it take any effort to see who Al Qaeda's
"useful idiots" and stalwart allies truly are?
As Hari recently documented after interviews with ex-Muslim militants,
the most effective weapon against Al Qaeda's recruitment efforts is
when human rights groups in the West -- such as the ACLU -- demand
equal, humane and Constitutional treatment of Muslims:
When they saw ordinary Westerners trying to uphold human rights,
their jihadism began to stutter. Almost all of them said that they
doubted their Islamism when they saw a million non-Muslims march in
London to oppose the Iraq War: "How could we demonise people who
obviously opposed aggression against Muslims?" asks Hadiya. . . .
[Another explained]: "So, when Amnesty, despite knowing that we hated
them, adopted us, I felt -- maybe these democratic values aren't
always hypocritical. Maybe some people take them seriously . . . it
was the beginning of my serious doubts."
By stark contrast, the policies cheered on by Joscelyn's right-wing
comrades have done more to fuel and enable Al Qaeda than any other
single factor:
Every one of them said the Bush administration's response to 9/11
-- from Guantanamo to Iraq -- made jihadism seem more like an accurate
description of the world. . . . [One ex-militant] started to recruit
other students, as he had done so many times before. But it was
harder. "Everyone hated the [unelected] government [of Hosni Mubarak],
and the US for backing it," he says. But there was an inhibiting
sympathy for the victims of 9/11 -- until the Bush administration
began to respond with Guantanamo Bay and bombs. "That made it much
easier. After that, I could persuade people a lot faster."
The ACLU (with which I consult) not only defends the most elemental
American liberties (e.g., the State cannot imprison people without
charging and convicting them of a crime), but also renders Al Qaeda's
demonization-dependent recruitment efforts against the West far less
effective. By stark contast, the Constitution-hating, warmongering
and tyrannical template embraced by The Weekly Standard is precisely
what Al Qaeda needs -- and desires -- in order to thrive. The more
the U.S. is represented by the warmongering and anti-due process face
of Bill Kristol, the better it is for Al Qaeda; the more it adheres to
the liberties and rights guaranteed by the Constitution and defended
by the ACLU, the weaker Al Qaeda becomes. Kristolian neocons want and
need a strong Al Qaeda in order to justify the array of wars and civil
liberties erosions they crave, and everything they advocate is
designed to achieve that goal -- or, at the very least, guarantees
that outcome.
The greatest irony of the last decade is that the very people who most
despise core American principles and do more than anyone to fuel
Islamic extremism have anointed themselves the arbiters of American
patriotism and protectors of American security. The reality is that
it is this very movement which simultaneously advances definitively un-
American political values and strengthens anti-American Islamic
radicals -- both by design and by effect. The Weekly Standard's due-
process-hating manifesto this morning is a vivid exhibit for how that
has worked.
© 2009 Salon.com
Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights
litigator in New York. He is the author of the New York Times
Bestselling book "How Would a Patriot Act?," a critique of the Bush
administration's use of executive power, released in May 2006. His
second book, "A Tragic Legacy", examines the Bush legacy
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