"The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial."
So states this article in The New York Times by William Glaberson.
I want you to read the sentence a few times over. Mull it over in your mind what is being called for. Grasp the very nature of this insanity and face the ugly, morality bereft purpose it portends.
This proposal is calling for the execution of held individuals, facing no actual charges, without holding a trial, if they confess to anything – even if the confession is taken under torture!
In current US military code, those who face capital charges cannot plead guilty, to prevent just this kind of abuse. Blend this insane proposal of accepting confessions under any circumstance with the compulsion of our government to torture confessions out of people and you have the perfect recipe for driving our culture straight back to the horrid injustice of the Inquisition! The very call for such a thing is purely evil!
I could write a full respective post on this, but I would never surpass the simple strength of this post in Washington’s Blog. I consider it mandatory reading. Follow the links as well
In case all of this is still unclear, follow this scenario. With the current insanity set by the Patriot Acts, the following can occur to anyone, foreign and US citizens alike…
You are arrested under "suspicion of being a terrorist" (no actual charges filed) and are hauled off to some undisclosed military gulag. Since you are considered an "enemy combatant", you will not be given any access to civilian court – you face a military tribunal, assuming they even hold one for you. (They don’t have to, under the current law.) You are denied access to a lawyer, tortured by waterboarding, sleep deprivation, psychological manipulation – under a whole litany of procedures that the CIA and military won’t even talk about, for whatever period of time the government wants to hold you. Indefinitely if they want. If your relatives even know what happened to you, they are not given access to you at any point. During this period of indefinite incarceration, though no actual charges have ever been filed against you and no evidence exists that you were involved in any illicit activity, you confess guilt under torture to some "act of terrorism" which holds a captial penalty. Without ever going to military trial and having never even talked to a lawyer (or anyone else outside of the military prison), the confession under torture is accepted and you are executed for it.
We are on the very brink, people!
If we fall into this hollow facade of "justice", we’ve lost absolutely everything good that this country ever stood for.
Addendum: I’ve reworded a major portion of this post to clarify the difference between military and civil court procedures and the affects of this proposal when blended with current law set by the Patriot Acts and others.
Tags: constitution, crazy, evil, government, injustice, insanity, obama, police state, rights, scary, tyranny, vile
