Another Triumph of Our Government.
I read this statement while at work. Our government at times seems to make absolutely no sense. Do they honestly believe that they have no boundries, no one to answer to, and no rules to follow?
November 17, 2006
Pentagon Wants to Build a White Elephant, According to
Amnesty International
(Washington, DC) – Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA’s executive director, issued the following statement in response to today’s news reports that the Department of Defense is planning to build a “legal compound” at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba:“Once again, the Defense Department seems to be operating in – even constructing – its own universe. The new rules for the proposed military commissions under the Military Commissions Act(MCA) have not been made public, and not a single charge has been filed under the new system. And yet the Pentagon wants to build a permanent homage to its failed experiment in second class justice.“It is absolutely nonsensical that the U.S. government is proposing to spend 125 million American taxpayers’ dollars to build commission rooms and supporting structures, when there’s a chance that the U.S. courts may strike down the new commissions. Rather than wasting tons of money creating edifices that may prove to be a white elephant, the U.S. government should use the sophisticated and fully adequate facilities already available to it to try terrorism suspects – federal courts.”
We (USA) now have Gates on hold, the same CIA blood that gave us an arms for cocaine deals via Ollie North during Ronnie, the drooler, Reagan’s time. Baker’s input to give us a ‘new’ direction. What we need is a world apology, the world help and criminal hearings on President Cheney. Until Americans wake TF up and start criminal hearings on arms dealers as politicians we are doomed to more of the same. Bush (the mass executioner of TX) and Rumsfeld need to be tried as genocidal and torture criminals. Maybe, just maybe after this we can move on.