The Convenient Silence of Guantanamo Bay 05-31-08 mpg Guantanamo Bay judge relieved of duties after threatening to suspend proceedings if prosecutors continued to withhold evidence -- A quote...."The military judge in the Omar Khadr trial in Guantanamo Bay has been relieved of his duties, a move that Mr. Khadr's defence counsel implied is a result of the judge siding with the defence on a number of evidence-disclosure issues in the controversial military tribunal case.” There are those currently serving in US military uniforms, who torture prisoners in the name of the American people, obtain coerced confessions, fake evidence, initially refuse to provide consul to their prisoners than later grudgingly do so, do not recognize Habeas Corpus, or the Geneva Conventions, or the right against self-incrimination, or a public trial.....and have as a final indignity to this country's honor withheld evidence from the presiding judge in the trial and when he demands that they present it in court to him, they, in an act of supreme, uncaring, willful, arrogance simply fire him. Sounds like a cover-up to this editor. (Probably because it would show the US government’s and Bush's complicity with 9/11, or even the fact the defendants were innocent, but we'll never know now, will we?) This is not a mockery of justice; this is a mockery of show trials. A word to the wise for all those in the US military participating in these "interrogations" and "trials", if ANY of the evidence being withheld or altered indicates US government complicity with 9/11, or would support or imply in any way such a suspicion....all personnel who have cooperated in withholding or altering such evidence would automatically become an accessory after the fact in the murder of three thousand Americans. More importantly, tainting such evidence, creating any evidence, suborning perjury or extracting false confessions from prisoners even if it DOES NOT DIRECTLY INVOLVE U.S. government or administration official’s complicity regarding 9/11...IN AND OF ITSELF could be legally construed as obstruction of justice and possibly make someone an accessory after the fact regarding 9/11 if it prevents the identification of the true perpetrators or the facts involved. This is true whether or not one was committing these acts under the orders of higher officials. It's especially true if these higher officials are implicated in any way with the events of 9/11. It has become obvious that Guantanamo Bay was set up not just to avoid the law (all of them), but as Donald Rumsfeld is so fond of saying "to control the flow of information". It is not a coincidence that these prisoners were kept isolated, or that their stories and facts were never verified by independent observers. Nor is it a coincidence that Rumsfeld personally monitored interrogations live through a high-speed video link. Nor that the "evidence" or so-called various "confessions" of these prisoners have been kept under wraps for five years now. Too late to be useful in determining what really happened on 9/11. To late to be crossed checked with each other and with the known facts. The regime in Washington DC and those who followed their orders have managed to prevent disclosure of what these prisoners really knew about 9/11 for five long years and somehow managed to muddy the waters to the point where we may never know who was really responsible for that fateful day. They somehow managed to torture their prisoners till they'd confess to crimes they couldn't possibly have committed, tortured them till they wouldn't even be able to recognize their own mothers, tortured them till they would sign or say anything their torturers and their masters wanted them to say….absolutely anything, and they did so while some who might have had actual knowledge of what happened on 9/11 died while in their custody, conveniently silenced forever. It's something to think about. Everyone involved with Guantanamo Bay should keep in mind there is NO statue of limitations on treason, murder, conspiracy to commit murder or crimes against humanity. - mpg |