Personal plea: Somebody, PLEASE, make the ACLU go away!
Rumsfeld faces personal suit by detainees
A federal judge said Friday he would rule quickly on whether to allow outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to face a civil trial on allegations by nine former detainees at U.S. military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan who accuse him and top military commanders of being personally responsible for the torture they say they endured.
I’m sorry…are we talking about the panties on the head business? If so, I wouldn’t call that torture by any stretch of the imagination. Bamboo shoots under the fingernails, severe beatings, having your HEAD CUT OFF….that’s torture! Drawers on your head? I don’t think so!
The lawsuit contends the men were beaten, suspended upside down from the ceiling by chains, urinated on, shocked, sexually humiliated, burned, locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions.
Nope, still not having much of a problem! Show me the scars, and prove Rumsfeld caused them.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General C. Frederick Beckner III said abuse claims should be handled by the military, which has prosecuted more than 100 such cases. He argued that Rumsfeld cannot be held legally responsible because anything he may have done — including authorizing harsh interrogations at the Abu Ghraib and Bagram detention facilities — was within the scope of his job as defense secretary to combat terrorists and prevent future attacks.
This, to me, is definitely a military issue, but then, what do I know!
The case of Ali v. Rumsfeld, pitted lawyers from two human rights organizations representing the former detainees at Abu Ghraib and the Bagram military base in Afghanistan, against attorneys representing Rumsfeld, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski and Col. Thomas Pappas.
Do any of these so called “human rights” groups ever bother to speak out when Americans are tortured or humiliated? If so, I guess it wasn’t important enough for the MSM to cover.
The former detainees accuse Rumsfeld and others of being personally responsible for approving torture techniques and violating the U.S. Constitution. Rumsfeld argues that he is immune from liability because he cannot be held legally responsible for what he may have done — including authorizing harsh interrogations at the Abu Ghraib and Bagram detention facilities — because it was within the scope of his job as defense secretary to combat terrorists and prevent future attacks.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK….any body home? This “abuse” didn’t happen in the US, and these aren’t US citizens! They don’t have protections under OUR Constitution.
The suit seeks compensatory damages and a judicial declaration that the legal rights of the prisoners were violated under the Constitution, the Geneva accords and other international law.
There ya go! It’s the money! I don’t, for one minute, think the ACLU does anything that doesn’t involve a dollar to be added to their coffers in order to undermine the U.S. Their logo says “Keep America Safe and Free”, but it should be “Keep American Under OUR Thumb”.
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