Bush Signs Torture Bill: Good-bye, habeas corpus. Hello, executive detention.

BUSH SIGNS TORTURE BILL: GOOD-BYE, HABEAS CORPUS. HELLO, EXECUTIVE DETENTION.

"If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy's going to win in court before me." - But after Bush signing, the little guy will never get into the courtroom. In the US law is dead, the Dark Ages are back, and they keep on bombing the US back into the Stone Age.

BUSH SIGNS BILL ALLOWING QUICK TERROR TRIALS, TOUGH INTERROGATIONS

CBC News - U.S. President George W. Bush has signed into law a controversial new bill that allows for aggressive interrogation and quick prosecution of terror suspects. At a ceremony in the White House attended by senior military and civilian security officials, Bush said the Military Commissions Act would save American lives and help the country stop militant attacks before they happen.

"WITH THIS BILL, AMERICA REAFFIRMS HER INTENT TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR," HE SAID. [ ]

No lawmaker with a functioning brain nor any human being agrees with this fascist law rape. Bush, his managers and Bush adviser Kissinger with their war machine, killing for profit and power in nearly the whole world, represents everything evil going on. They have turned the US into rogue state #1. Globally seen this sick US 'Nero' must be one of the most hated war criminals now. Worse than Stalin, Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Djengis Khan etc. etc.

What this group does and has done to the world is beyond humanity. There's no doubt in the rest of the world among human beings that this United States Nero has gone totally mad, and does exactly as he is told by the managers. Online at MSNBC there's a 'Live Vote': Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? Until today 86% say Bush (and his group) should go to jail, but that figure should rise to a 100%...

The question, asked today just before this killer of the Constitution and Habeas Corpus signed, was: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?*

Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial.
86%

No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing approaching "high crimes and misdemeanors." - 4.4%

No, the man has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeachment would just be a political lynching. - 7.3%

I don't know. - 1,8%

It is seen as sheer horror, what they do, since all people in the United States and it's colonies, will be confronted with the worst Gestapo on earth: a totally lawless gang of killers who have thrown all ideas concerning jurisprudence and defending human rights over board. Emily Bazelon wrote about the value of 'The Formerly Great Writ': "Tucked into the renewal of the Patriot Act, which Congress will reconsider in December, is an unrelated provision that would make it harder for American prisoners to challenge their convictions in federal court. Congress may also soon vote to limit the rights of foreign detainees in Guantanamo Bay to apply to federal court.

What's driving the effort to close off federal courts from prisoners? Have prisoners been exploiting legal loopholes to cut short their sentences? Hardly. The number of federal appeals brought by prisoners—and the success rate of those appeals—has steadily dropped for the last five years. Federal judges themselves decided as a body to oppose the current efforts in Congress to cut back further on prisoners' appeals.

Still, some lawmakers are determined to bend the courts to their will. If they really get their way, they'll eviscerate the centuries-old right of habeas corpus review as we know it—leaving all of us increasingly subject to the unilateral power of executive detention. Why stop with Jose Padilla or Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri if Congress is ready to let prosecutors lock up anyone and keep them there? [end quote] - Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2131127/

FPF - RELATED:

* Bush signs bill allowing quick terror trials, tough interrogations - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y8o6fa

* http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/200601017_bush_signs_torture_bill/

* The MSNBC vote is at Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

* It’s official. We just got medieval. - The Associated Press calls it “tough interrogation.” - We call it ‘the indefinite-detainment, unyielding-torture, habeas-corpus-suspending, mortgage-America’s-bedrock-principles-upon-the-altar-of-anti-terrorism. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yh5ujo

* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992.

* The Top Ten American War Criminals Living Freely Today - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dvudx

* What Bush c.s. - the neocons* and their collaborators - are afraid of - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/95nk2

* Google search "Biggest threat to world peace" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dk2lj

* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq

* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi (It.) Balkenende (NL) - their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.:  http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!

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UN vote: US slave state Guatemala vs independent Venezuela

The Bolton-bulldozered UN, with it's sell outs at the top, must be bribed, threatened and forced in whatever way possible to vote for a seat for US slave state Guatemala. For humanity, brutes like Bolton and his greedy ilk are deadlier than the pest.

Henk Ruyssenaars - intro + links

FPF - Tuesday October 17th - 2006 - In the beginning of the fifties Guatemala very positively was known as the 'Switzerland of Latin America' - with elected president Jacobo Arbenz at the democratic helm. Supposed to be a 'slave state' like many others, in 1954 the United States and CIA ousted him by a coup for the US's 'United Fruit' multinational (Chiquita etc.) and since then Guatemala has been terrorized as a kind of US colony, one of the last at present.

The people in Latin America the last years have had - and admired - Venezuela and president Hugo Chavez as an example of a humane society, and that's why so many countries in the Bolton-bulldozered United Nations (outside the US called 'United Stations') - with it's 'sell out' losers at the top - must be bribed, bullied and forced in whatever way possible, to vote for a seat in the UN for US colony Guatemala. Chile opted to abstain from voting in the process to decide on Venezuela or Guatemala as the new temporary member in the United Nations (UN) Security Council, and that's a good step in the right direction of the through the US suffering Bachelet government.

Señora and PM Bachelet ought to daily remember what the CIA/DINA did also to her and her mother in torture centre Villa Grimaldi. Maybe the visit there last Saturday helped revive memories of what the US multinationals and their CIA can do to human beings and countries? The - today 300 million - United States populace should understand that it's not only Muslims or the 'Arab World': in the 190 countries surrounding the US the people hate their policy and murdering for profit. And they'll get revenge. One of the last US bastions - also for the CIA drugs business - in South America is occupied Colombia, which suffers much, with it's US troops, military bases and training. Like in the United States 'Torture University' where US henchmen graduate.- Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y5tllj

According to all international law and conventions it is a crime against humanity what the international profiteers have done and are doing globally and now again in the UN, concerning South America which they always treated as 'the backyard of the US'' with it's Monroe doctrine.* People are sacrificed by the US war machine for the oil - like planned for Venezuela and the present battle in Ecuador* - and other national resources. Human beings do absolutely NOT count in the cold eyes of the managers of the US/Israeli war machine, they are profit units to be treated as a Kleenex: used and thrown away. The perfidity of this greedy pack is based on a stone heart. - Url.: http://www.fff.org/comment/com0502f.asp

So, basically it's a vote in the UN about whether you support the permanent and global killing-for-profit spree of the US/Israeli war machine with it's criminal collaborators in the US colonies and NATO, via genocides trying to proceed bleeding the world's economy and get dominance with this 'junta' of 'crazies' in Washington; or do you support a more social and humane track as represented by President Hugo Chavez's 'Bolivarian revolution' rule in Venezuela? Helping the neighbours instead of killing them? Just one example: with my own eyes I've also seen how the CIA for ITT and it's other 'Federal Reserve money masters' raped Chile and literally killed their hope for a better live for many decades to come. He was also elected by the people, President Salvador Allende, who was 'suicided' by the Washington and Henry Kissinger mafia. Believe me: the corrupt clique of war criminals doing this, is worse than AIDS or vultures! They represent the worst plague ever to pester mankind and ought to be jailed immediately!* - HR

FOUR ELECTED WITH ONE UNCERTAIN FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP

The UN General Assembly failed on Monday to produce a fifth winner after electing Belgium, Indonesia, Italy and South Africa to serve as nonpermanent members of the Security Council for two-year terms.

Since the fifth nonpermanent seat, to be awarded to a member of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, is still in contention after ten rounds of election, Sheikha Haya Al Khalifa, the president of the UN General Assembly, announced to set further voting on Tuesday.

During the day-long elections, neither Guatemala nor Venezuela, which are candidates from their regional group, obtained the needed two-thirds majority. In the tenth round of voting where 125 votes were needed to win, Guatemala received 110 votes and Venezuela 77 with 4 abstentions.

Url.: http://english.people.com.cn/200610/17/eng20061017_312588.html

CHINA SUPPORTS VENEZUELA RUNNING FOR NON-PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP OF UNSC
      
China supports Venezuela's application for a non-permanent position in the United Nations Security Council, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang on Thursday.

"China and Venezuela now enjoy sound bilateral relations and have maintained close communication and cooperation in dealing with international and regional affairs," said Qin.

Qin told the press that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had talked about the country's plans to run for non-permanent member status on the UN Security Council in meetings with senior Chinese officials during his recent visit to China.

According to the UN rules, a country from the Latin American and Caribbean region will be appointed to the Security Council as a non-permanent member next year. Its tenure will last for two years.

There are ten non-permanent and five permanent members on the UN Security Council.

[andend] - Source: Xinhua - Url.: http://english.people.com.cn/200609/15/eng20060915_302896.html

FPF - Item also published in New York: for the UN people - Url.: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77323.html

FPF - RELATED - "It's dangerous to be right when your government is wrong." - Voltaire

* Reliable news from Venezuela etc. via VHeadline.com in Caracas - Url.: www.vheadline.com/

* VERY GOOD ARTICLE BY JIM LOBE - RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: US Restores Military Aid After 15-Year Hiatus - Url.: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28026

* The Monroe Doctrine, US Imperialism and Venezuela - It is clear from the above how the Monroe Doctrine has been used to dominate the cultures, political life, and economics of the Latin America - Url.:
www.handsoffvenezuela.org/monroe_doctrine_venezuela.htm

* Ecuador: flogging the US, oil sharks & oligarchs? - Url.: http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/136245/index.php

* CHANGE THE US WAR REGIME? - Malcom X - on defending human rights. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zoora

* US "Death Squad Protection Act" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6xdfw 

* DEFINITION OF SEMITES from the Collins English Dictionary - [http://tinyurl.com/zj9y4] - "Semitic: a member of the group of Caucasoid people who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the Ancient Babylonians (Iraqis), the Assyrians (Syria), and the Phoenicians (the Lebanese of today). Semitic: a branch or sub-family of languages that includes Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew.” - Palestinians and Lebanese for instance, are semites. The centuries old JDL gutter-cliché: "anti semitism' has always been a fake accusation, abused globally to kill discussions. Not anymore: Never again! But what the US/Israeli war machine is doing, is anti semitism on a global scale.

* THE LAW ON FREE EXPRESSION - Aryeh Neier - American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU - "Defending My Enemy" - "The law on free expression covers everybody, and thus that in defending it for anybody you defend it for everybody." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ymz2mv

* THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST SCAM EVER IN HUMAN HISTORY: 'THE FED' - Url.: http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/FEDERALRESERVE.HTML

* British MP George Galloway stated totally correct: ''Blair, Olmert and Bush are murderers'' - Url.:http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/5072.shtml

*Throw out war propagandists like the BBC, FOX, CNN etc.! - Url.:  http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/07/1632.php

* THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: "The huge omnivorous herd consumes everywhere on our earth as much as it can grab, and tramples millions of human beings to death. That doesn't seem to matter. The 'elephant boys' don't speak about the bloody pulp underneath the feet of the big animals: instead they give them a bath in the mainstream." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/np823

* The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!

* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html

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