www.911review.org – 2004-10-28 09:01:20
http://www.911review.org/Wiki/SecretEvidence.shtml
On the heels of the controversial USA Patriot Act (passed with a little help from anthrax that was traced back to the US Army), followed by the Homeland Security Act, there is now new totalitarian legislation being passed under the guise of implementing the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations.
See:http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.00010
These measures include the legalisation of the practice of handing Canadians (and other Aliens) over to countries that practice torture.
The legislation explicitly revises US law to remove the applicability of the United Nations ”Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,” to anyone John Ashcroft decides is a terrorist.
American citizens may also want to consider the case of Yaser Hamdi, who until recently was a US citizen.
In post-Orwellian America, any US citizen can be jailed almost indefinitely with no charges, and then may be let out if he or she renounces his or her citizenship and agrees to be deported. And if the 9/11 Ommission Act passes, the US government will decide what country he will be deported to, and who his torturers may be.
See: http://www.911review.org/Wiki/911OmmissionTortureAct.shtm
The Global Police State Agenda has been enacted using 9/11 as an excuse. Three years after 9/11, the Globalist Totalitarian Agenda is shredding what’s left of the Common Law, all the back to Magna Carta.
These measures include the legalisation of the practice of rendering Canadians (and other aliens) to countries that practice torture, as was done to Arar,Maher when he stopped in NYC on a flight back to Canada.
See:http://www.911review.org/Wiki/Arar,Maher.shtml
The legislation explicitly revises US law to remove the applicability of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1 to anyone John Ashcroft decides is a terrorist.
American citizens may also want to consider the case of Yaser Hamdi, who until recently was a US citizen. Hamdi was seized by the Northern Alliance in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan and handed over to the Americans. He was then rendered to Guantánamo Bay, but three months later, it was discovered that he was a US citizen, whereupon he was transferred to a Naval brig in North Carolina.
As with the other prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay, we was held incommunicado without access to lawyers, and without a status hearing to determine if he was a combatant as required by the Geneva Conventions. A middle level Defense Department official simply asserted in writing to a court that he was an “enemy combatant”, and all of his rights as a citizen then simply disappeared.
After almost three years, his case was argued up to the US Supreme Court, which gave a general decision in favour of the detainees, but sent the specific case back down to the lower courts. In a diabolic bargain, Hamdi was released from custody by the US Justice Department under three conditions:
• He renounce his US citizenship (he had dual US/Saudi citizenship)
• He agrees to never return to the United States
• He renounce all legal actions against the United States government.
No evidence of any kind was ever presented against him.
So, in post-Orwellian America, any US citizen can be jailed almost indefinitely with no charges, and then may be let out if he or she renounces his or her citizenship and agrees to be deported. And if the 9/11 Ommission Act passes, the US government will decide what country he will be deported to, and who his torturers may be.
For more on the use of “enemy combatants” in US courts, see SecretEvidence. http://www.911review.org/Wiki/SecretEvidence.shtml
