Interrogation Methods Rejected by Military Win Bush’s Support
Many of the harsh interrogation techniques repudiated by the Pentagon on Wednesday would be made lawful by legislation put forward the same day by the Bush administration. And the courts would be forbidden from intervening.
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In June, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court ruled that a provision of the Geneva Conventions concerning the humane treatment of prisoners applied to all aspects of the conflict with Al Qaeda. The new bill would keep the courts from that kind of meddling, Professor Yoo said.
“There is a rejection of what the court did in Hamdan,” he said, “which is to try to judicially enforce the Geneva Conventions, which no court had ever tried to do before.”
Gee, I dunno, maybe that's because no american administration has ever tried to establish the practice of torturing prisoners as official state policy. The Geneva Conventions aren't just some quaint, archaic ideal to strive for, american law prohibits torture.
These are terrible, evil people.
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These slimebuckets will try to make this legislation apply to *any and all* people - regardless of citizenship - to ensure that they can crush anyone who opposes them. Glenn Greenwald might have an analysis of this bill soon. I hope. But what I heard this morning on my local radio station inclined me to believe that they're basically intending this legislation to crush opposition, international and domestic. In one fell swoop. And fell they are, indeed.
Professor Yoo will have some serious karma to work off in his next thousand lives. So will the people who have enabled and listened to him.
But what I heard this morning on my local radio station inclined me to believe that they're basically intending this legislation to crush opposition, international and domestic. In one fell swoop. And fell they are, indeed.
That's what I think as well.
Evil, evil people they are.
Even worse than that..."Lets just pretend this thingey -- this Con-sti-too-shun -- doesn't exist. Cause we don't need them "Courts" meddling in what King Codpiece wants to do. So we'll just legislate them out of existence"
Really -- the people around him are eveel but they're not stoopit. They have to know any legislation like this will just be thrown out as unconstitutional in about a minute and a half. So what do they think they're accomplishing? More fucking red meat for their base? Is that really all they have to offer the country?
Is that really all they have to offer the country?
Yes.
According to one analysis (I have not yet read extensively on the subject), the legislation contains provisions that bypass the courts. Courts will not be permitted to rule on the legality of any acts undertaken by The Fake Cowboy if carried out under colour of these new laws. That's a scary thought.
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