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POW's are the Achilles heel of the
Decider and his armies of occupation around the world. This is so, even
though it's been five long years since the USA has taken no
Prisoners-of-War, in any of our illegal wars of occupation, torture, and
the slaughter of innocents that we have subjected the world to; just to
meet the needs of Israel's paranoia and our own obsessive greed, for
resources and territory that was never ours.
This practice began with 911 when
the fighters were supposed to have been scrambled to intercept the
attacking planes but the interceptors were not scrambled: and the nation
was lost! From that moment the Monstrous-Lie was clear for all to see.
That was the moment when the coup began, but even then the Bandits were
not smart enough to finish the job - they only accomplished two-thirds of
what they set out to do. Had America had anything like an awake and
American-friendly media, 911 would have stopped right there - because real
questions would have been asked, and real answers would have been sought.
That did not happen - so from that moment to this one - the United States
of America has made itself a prisoner of the Cabal that stole this nation
and now wants to finish this bungled attempt at a takeover - in very final
terms. Incidentally: Every single act since that moment has only
compounded the initial crime, until what is left is too large to even
contemplate!
For five years now - the public
has been treated to 'the Decider's fantasies' regarding Rove's tendencies
to make-up terms that have no meaning. One of his favorite themes has been
the elimination of the term P.O.W. (Prisoners of War). The Decider decided
that America needed to be immersed in several total and unending wars.
Everyone knows that when a nation goes to war there will be
prisoners-of-war, or POW's. But wherever there are POW's there are the
Geneva Conventions, and those global rules must be followed-in terms of
the treatment that the nation holding the prisoners must follow. To escape
this law the Decider created the term "unlawful enemy
combatants" (UEC's) - something that has yet to be ruled on by the
courts. Initially, the term applied only to those swept up on battlefields
that the US created, virtually overnight. To date there are an unknown
number of Afghan detainees from many countries, plus about 14,000 UEC's
from Iraq, and only god knows how many others have been stolen in the
night by some of the sixteen different intelligence agencies that have
been funded to the tune of some sixty-billion dollars.
In these years of aggressions
against so many - why have we never witnessed any trials of those
supposedly lethal enemies of the United States? The Israeli's have a
similar policy and they still hold over 11,000 Palestinians, over 60 of
which are members of the legal Palestinian government. By contrast the
Palestinians and Hezbollah hold just three captured Israel soldiers. The
invisible enemies that we say we're fighting don't seem to capture
American troops, in the course of conflict-yet we persist in rounding up
whole families, including children, that we simply throw in jail to be
tortured, maimed or killed-at the convenience of their jailers. No
explanations are ever given-except for National Security, of course!
The USA has slaughtered people
from the air using missiles from predator drones that indiscriminately
kill people. These 'people' are later supposedly identified as insurgents,
yet they often turn out to be just ordinary people trying to survive in a
war upon their own countries, wars created illegally by us and for those
massively powerful corporate entities that fund the conflicts and collect
the profits from supplying the armaments that provide the destruction:
this is augmented by secret contracts to clean up their devastation and
rebuild what they first destroyed-secretly of course. But throughout it
all, the point in all this destruction and chaos (the enemy) is not
catalogued, not tried, not convicted of anything except of not being in
agreement with US corporate or capitalistic policies: Why not? Where are
the show trials, where is the evidence, manufactured or real, that would
show the world the truth? Why has this totally false administration not
chosen to use these tens of thousands of prisoners to demonstrate
"the rightness" of their supposed cause? Because there is no
credibility for our actions, and we can't have courtroom proceedings that
might show this to be the truth!
One reason comes from the legal
problems that they still have with the court systems here. The Decider's
minions have owned the congress for decades. Consequently they do not fear
congress because that body has spinelessly sold its sworn oath to protect
the constitution and the American people for a song. Something like 70
percent of the congress takes money from a foreign power-illegally-because
that foreign power is not registered as a lobby that represents the
foreign power that Americans know as Israel. The lobby is AIPAC (American
Israeli Political Action Committee)-which just happens to be the single
most powerful lobby in the USA.
The packed US court system
however presents a slightly different problem. Some of the justices seem
to take what they do with more gravitas than their counterparts in
congress; The Supreme Court ruled against the Decider's created enemies,
by labeling his misuse of this weird terminology as unconstitutional. What
is really being sought now is the right to be pardoned for past crimes, by
legislation written by those who committed those crimes-who now want the
Supreme Court to grant them pardons for all that they've already done to
date-this is insane-please see the quotes below!
From Democracy Now: "The
Bush administration's controversial military commissions and detainee
treatment bill is one step closer to being signed into law. On Wednesday,
the House approved its version of the measure, leaving it to a vote in the
Senate today. Under the new bill, detainees would be prevented from
challenging their imprisonment and denied access to evidence used against
them. Critics of the bill say it also gives too broad a definition of who
can be ruled an "unlawful enemy combatant"; {critics believe
the wording is crucial, as it can be interpreted to mean that this
legislation will apply to American citizens as well - k} and provides
little protection against detainee mistreatment. The administration was
forced to come up with new procedures following a Supreme Court ruling in
the case of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan. On Wednesday, Hamdan's
lawyer, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Charlie Swift, said the new bill
could again be ruled illegal.
- U.S. Navy Lieutenant
Commander Charlie Swift: "They're basically recreating, almost
identically, the same trial the Supreme Court struck down that said
they violated Common Article 3 and also violated the UCMJ at that
time, and just basically didn't provide fundamental, what we call due
process, for a fair trial. And no amount of saying that it's a fair
trial makes it a fair trial and that seems to be the bill's biggest
thing. We claim it's a fair trial but we haven't really changed any of
the things the Supreme Court found substantively problematic."
Just one in five Democrats voted
with Republicans in the House Wednesday. But Democrats say they won't
challenge the bill because they do not want to appear weak on terror ahead
of the November elections. In an editorial today, the New York Times
writes: "Americans of the future won't remember the pragmatic
arguments for caving in to the administration. They'll know that in 2006,
Congress passed a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points
in American democracy, our generation's version of the Alien and Sedition
Acts." "
This issue of the missing
Prisoners-of-War is of major importance because the status of hundreds of
thousands of people is no small matter; especially when one considers that
the United States is supposed to be a nation of laws not, not men. A
nation created to be a place where no person is to be considered either
above or beyond the rule of law. Five years is a very long time to leave
so many people to rot and to be tortured in illegal detainment, at the
pleasure of illegal war machines that care nothing at all about anything
the world might think, or whatever rules the global community has in place
to deal directly with the prevention of this exact same crime against
human beings from so many nations.
The Decider and his
ever-compliant cowards in the congress need to face this issue and tell
the world exactly what the hell they've been doing with these people, and
on what authority-for all these years! The media throughout this entire
masquerade has remained strangely silent-refusing to even raise these
questions-never-mind the fact that they should have held extensive
inquiries of their own into how this situation could possibly be allowed
to continue unabated for so many years? Of course the same thing is true
of both 911 and the illegal Israel lobby, along with all the unanswered
questions surrounding the number of dual-passport-government-employees
that have valid Israeli passports-Michael Chertoff, the Israeli head of US
HOMELAND security is one of these. The 'battlefields-at-home' are littered
with unanswered questions-questions that the congress and the courts are
charged with answering, especially in what Bush terms "this time of
WAR." All of this came to a screaming halt Friday, when the Senate
overwhelming passed the legislation-all that remains now is for Bush to
sign this treasonous bill into law.
How can it be that the United
States of America has sent troops into combat, with no clear line of
authority for their being there at all? How can it be that despite all the
evidence and testimony to the contrary that so many in the military (past
and present) have provided against the leadership that directs their every
move, has gone unheeded! The US military has lost the war in Iraq and lost
it's military edge to do what is required of it, because it has followed
the orders of incompetent leadership on all levels beginning with the
Secretary of Offense, Donald Rumsfeld-and continuing UP the
chain-of-command to that creature at the center of all the failures of US
Policy for the last five years! No one has been fired, and now because no
limits have been set, we're looking at two new wars to accompany the two
failures we're still pretending to fight?
"The U.S. has battled in
Iraq longer than it fought against Nazi Germany, and the situation in Iraq
is out of control. The Taliban have regained half of Afghanistan. The king
of Saudi Arabia has told Bush that the ground is shaking under his feet as
unrest over the American/Israeli violence against Muslims builds to
dangerous levels. Our Egyptian puppet sits atop 100 million Muslims who do
not think that Egypt should be a lackey of U.S. hegemony. The king of
Jordan understands that Israeli policy is to drive every Palestinian into
Jordan." (1)
What happened to American
intelligence; not in the agency-term of that word, but in the day-to-day
form that ordinary Americans are supposed to have in such abundance? When
you have so many losing propositions, in everything from jobs to
education; from health-care to war and commerce-all run by a government
that is nothing more than a satellite arm of the oil industry-is it any
wonder that all we ever get is more failure from every word they speak?
Why have there not been more public demands for resignations in every area
that so-called government has infected with poisonous agendas that were
designed to kill every aspect of the United States. This was once a much
different nation from the metastasized cancer that it has become today?
The government's use of the bogus
term "unlawful enemy combatant" needs to be outlawed. The US
must answer for every person they have detained, and begin to resolve the
cases pending against the individuals involved or dismiss them outright.
The reason the world chose to call captured enemy soldiers Prisoners of
War, was precisely to avoid the massive task of trying each person for
whatever they did in combat, given the difficulty of testimony,
reconstruction of the crime-scenes, and or the conditions under which
anyone was captured. Fighting in a war is not a simple procedure, and
making rules about it is next to impossible. Since crimes are usually
committed on all sides in a wartime situation - prisoners when taken were
intended to be held until the hostilities ceased, when an exchange could
then take place. But his "this war on terra shall have no end"
according to that illiterate psychotics who are still in charge!
If the conflict really is to have
no end, because this is not a war against armies or nation-states, but a
war upon an idea that can never be completed-so long as hate and anger and
injustice still exist-then let us recognize these "wars" for the
illegal actions that they are, and end them now! These actions were
designed to steal territory and to subvert any who oppose our latest
ideology of unrestricted Capitalism, and unchecked Corporate-Crime. This
is what happens when citizens become consumers only, and when people fail
to question, the actions of the rogue government they have allowed to take
over their lives. If any of us still want to have a life, then we must
demand answers and clarifications from everyone at all levels of
government-and we must not stop until those 'in-charge'- are barred from
politics for life - and tried for the crimes that they've all committed.
The process that questions political behavior in America is called an
impeachment - and the punishment for Treason against the nation is death.
What does this nation stand for,
and who among us chooses to kneel to those that have stolen what was ours
to begin with...? Are you willing to live life on your knees, or would you
rather stand and speak to those who would silence you with the stroke of a
pen and call it national security? If people do not soon speak, then like
the POW's before us, many will simply disappear, or be listed as
missing-in-action. The time has come to get involved America and the
choice of what to do is yours!
Jim Kirwan
NOTES:
1) Why Bush Will
Nuke Iran
www.rense.com/whyc.htm
BACKGROUND:
Why We Fight - A Mother's Guide
To Civil Disobedience
www.truthout.org/
Molly Ivins: Habeas Corpus,
R.I.P. (1215 -2006)
www.truthdig.com/
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