You’re helping us win critical victories. President-elect Obama has committed to close Guantánamo. Help us keep the pressure on until we fully renew America’s commitment to freedom.Sign our Open Letter to Barack Obama now.
Yesterday, five high-profile detainees attempted to submit guilty pleas before the government’s ill-conceived military commissions. But, by the end of the day, their pleas were tied up in a blizzard of confusion over unresolved legal questions. It's not clear what will happen next if these unjust proceedings are allowed to continue. But, what is abundantly clear is that, no matter how hard the government tries to advance the military commissions, this process doesn't work. History will show that any guilty pleas in these proceedings were the result of an inhumane, unjust process designed to achieve a foregone conclusion. The only solution is to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay and shut down these unjust military commissions. As you know, the ACLU is calling on President-elect Obama to close Guantánamo, ban torture, and shut down indefensible military commissions on his first day in office. This trip to Guantánamo has convinced me that it is more essential than ever to keep the pressure on -- because what’s happening down here flies in the face of justice, fairness and our American ideals. Sign our Open Letter to Barack Obama now. The ACLU is working on all fronts to dismantle this system of injustice that the Bush administration has created. We’re sponsoring expert civilian counsel to those held at Guantánamo, mobilizing our nationwide network of grassroots activists, filing lawsuits and exposing the truth. Just last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a vitally important ACLU case taking on the Bush administration’s sweeping claim that it can indefinitely imprison a legal resident of the United States without charging him with a crime or trying him before a jury. Our case was filed on behalf of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who has been detained in solitary confinement at a Navy brig in South Carolina since June 2003. Al-Marri asked the Court to reverse a federal appeals court decision that gave the president sweeping power to deprive individuals in the United States of their most basic constitutional rights simply by designating them “enemy combatants.” We will urge the Court to ensure that people in this country cannot be seized from their homes and imprisoned indefinitely simply because the president says so. From this important Supreme Court challenge to indefinite detention to our grassroots efforts to demand the closure of Guantánamo and the end of Bush’s military commissions, your support and your voice are essential to our success. Help us keep the pressure on and add tens of thousands of names to our Open Letter to Barack Obama. Sign our Open Letter to Barack Obama now.Finally, I want to tell you about another critical victory in the ACLU’s effort to restore justice and the rule of law in America. In a crucial ACLU case, a federal appeals court acted last week to rebuff the Bush administration’s efforts to deport Egyptian torture victim Sameh Khouzam. The case hinged on his right to challenge Egypt’s “diplomatic assurances” that it will not torture Khouzam upon his return. This is an enormous victory for due process and the rights of all people -- citizens or not -- to be free from torture. And it’s a stinging rejection of the government’s attempts to simply eliminate the role of the courts in reviewing the government’s actions.You’re helping us win critical victories. President-elect Obama has committed to close Guantánamo. Help us keep the pressure on until we fully renew America’s commitment to freedom.Sincerely, Anthony D. RomeroExecutive DirectorACLU P.S. In the courts and in the court of public opinion, the evidence against our government’s injustice continues to mount. Take a moment right now to see our new closegitmo.com video in which top military lawyers challenge the unjust military commissions underway here at Guantánamo Bay.
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[Are you aware without the tortured confessions the war on terror would cease to exist? because it is true. If the US government didn't need these confessions then how come they used torture to get them? Had to use torture in order to get confessions is indication the war on terror is fabricated.
My belief is that without coerced confessions the corrupt political system we have in America wouldnt be worth the influence, it thinks it has.
Torturing innocent people into confessions is the worst human rights violation in the world. Dictators are the ONLY PEOPLE who force innocent people to "confess or else"
Dictator, or police states is the only system that torture people for their own political benefit. America is not a police state and it sure in the fuck does not have a dictatorship, so why are foreign counterparts human rights being violated?
The war on terror is run by the worst human rights violators like Old Boy Network; Hitler. It is these people, these US leaders, who are the terrorist. Are so when it is they who deny human rights in favor of their own political and or turf war benefit.
If US leaders keep this fabricated war on terror up (continue to accuse innocent people of crimes they did not commit, or kill innocent people and blame them for crimes they didn't commit) it is only a matter of time before foreign counterpart allie and enemies alike make a pact together to once and for all crush America. How is America going to be crushed? Simple really. US dollar will be switched to euro. We therefore will have to pay triple prior to buying and our products will be cheaper then China's. Further, US dollar cannot be used to "influence anybody, anywhere, ever again" being that it no longer has value.
Do I feel sorry for the US government? NOPE! US government brings on its own problems and will continue to do so for as long as they carry on fabricating "wars" for political/turf benefit.
Again, it is only a matter of time before America is crushed. Do I give a shit? NOPE. Our government will give a shit...but by then it will be too damn late, the damage will be done.
You want to talk about America crawling on its knees? US leaders will be crawling "to foreign counterpart masters"]
Kade
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