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Sunday, May 27, 2012
12-05-26 Lack of Access to Bradley Manning
Activists Speak Out Against Lack of Access to Bradley Manning
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US rights activists Friday condemned a lack of disclosure in the case against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, saying there was even less transparency than proceedings against the alleged September 11 attackers. A coalition headed by the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a petition asking the US Army to order the judge in Manning's court martial to allow access to government papers, court orders and transcripts of proceedings, 'none of which have been made public to date.'
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US rights activists Friday condemned a lack of disclosure in the case against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, saying there was even less transparency than proceedings against the alleged September 11 attackers. A coalition headed by the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a petition asking the US Army to order the judge in Manning's court martial to allow access to government papers, court orders and transcripts of proceedings, 'none of which have been made public to date.'
12-05-25 The end of Free-Range chicken...
Once tracked throughout your formative years, it is unlikely that you would ever regain your free-range natural capabilities... :) / (:
jz
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San Antonio, Texas students to be tracked via RFID in their IDs
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Posted: 26 May 2012 04:07 PM PDT
Yet another school has jumped on the RFID tracking of their students. This time the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas plans to track their students via RFID chips placed in their student IDs. It will begin trials at two schools and, if administrators like it, all 100,000...
READ MORE:http://www.dailycensored.com/
jz
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San Antonio, Texas students to be tracked via RFID in their IDs
Posted: 26 May 2012 04:07 PM PDT
Yet another school has jumped on the RFID tracking of their students. This time the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas plans to track their students via RFID chips placed in their student IDs. It will begin trials at two schools and, if administrators like it, all 100,000...
READ MORE:http://www.dailycensored.com/
12-05-25 Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts asked to comment on lack of integrity in electronic record sys of courts
The Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts is asked for comments on recent reports, "integrity, or lack thereof, in the courts' electronic record systems"
A report, recently submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council, and another, concurrently submitted for peer-review in an Information Systems Analysis journal, detailed material deficiencies in the integrity of the courts' electronic record systems. Large-scale fraud in the electronic records of the courts, banks, and registrations systems in the United States, have been recognized as key to the ongoing financial crisis.![[]](https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=5c7629aba9&view=att&th=1378ecd9e2846510&attid=0.1&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1)
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Jerusalem, May 25 - Human Rights Alert (NGO) has filed two recent reports for comments by the Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts. [1,2] The reports, one of which was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council, and the other, submitted for peer review in an international Information Systems Analysis journal, detailed material deficiencies in integrity of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel.
According to the web site of the Chamber, [3] it is "the central, leading professional body regarding information systems and information technology in Israel... The Chamber was established to promote the profession of Information Systems Analysis and the representation of the Members in all related professional matters...."
The first Goal of the Chamber includes, "obtaining statutory recognition for the profession of Information System Analysis in Israel."
Large-scale fraud in the electronic records of the courts, banks, and registrations systems in the United States, has been recognized as key to the ongoing financial crisis. [4, 5]
Following is the abstract of the paper, submitted for peer-review in an international Information Systems Analysis Journal, and for comments by the Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts.
http://www.scribd.com/Human_
http://www.facebook.com/
[2] 12-05-10 Human Right Alert's 2013 State of Israel UPR Appendix to Submission: Integrity, or lack thereof, in the electronic records of the courts
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
http://www.sysnan.co.il/web/
[4] Legal expert opined, “I think it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history… I can't think of one where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." in: S. Paltrow, “Special Report: The watchdogs that didn't bark,” Reuters, December 11, 2011.
[5] Zernik, J: Fraud and corruption in the US courts is tightly linked to failing banking regulation and the financial crisis, 16th World Criminology Congress (2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
A report, recently submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council, and another, concurrently submitted for peer-review in an Information Systems Analysis journal, detailed material deficiencies in the integrity of the courts' electronic record systems. Large-scale fraud in the electronic records of the courts, banks, and registrations systems in the United States, have been recognized as key to the ongoing financial crisis.
View as PDF: http://www.scribd.com/doc/
Jerusalem, May 25 - Human Rights Alert (NGO) has filed two recent reports for comments by the Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts. [1,2] The reports, one of which was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council, and the other, submitted for peer review in an international Information Systems Analysis journal, detailed material deficiencies in integrity of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel.
According to the web site of the Chamber, [3] it is "the central, leading professional body regarding information systems and information technology in Israel... The Chamber was established to promote the profession of Information Systems Analysis and the representation of the Members in all related professional matters...."
The first Goal of the Chamber includes, "obtaining statutory recognition for the profession of Information System Analysis in Israel."
Large-scale fraud in the electronic records of the courts, banks, and registrations systems in the United States, has been recognized as key to the ongoing financial crisis. [4, 5]
Following is the abstract of the paper, submitted for peer-review in an international Information Systems Analysis Journal, and for comments by the Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts.
- Integrity, of lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel
- Abstract The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights in Israel, filed in May 2012, is probably a first – being narrowly focused on integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, district courts, and the detainees’ courts of the State of Israel. The underlying research is primarily based on data mining of the online public records of the courts.
- Supreme Court: On or about March 2002, integrity of the electronic records was seriously compromised. Around that date, increased irregularity is seen in certification authorities and numerous falsified decision records were discovered. Today, all electronic records are published with no certification at all, “subject to editing and phrasing changes”. False and deliberately misleading certifications of decisions of the Supreme Court, which were recently issued by the office of the Chief Clerk, were also discovered. The Administration of Courts also refused to produce the appointment record of the current Chief Clerk, if any existed.
- District Courts: The publicly accessible records were found invalid, primarily for failure to display visible, reliable digital signatures of judges and authentication records by clerks. The State Ombudsman’s Report 60b (2010) details various apparent violations of the law in development and implementation of the system.
- Detainees Courts: The insecure, unsigned decisions of the detainees courts, often created long time after the dates of the hearings, could not possibly be considered valid legal records. The detainees ID numbers show suspicious discontinuities and failure to correlate with time of issuance. Media reported the conduct of simulated hearing, and issuance of simulated decision in one of the courts. The Israeli Ministry of Justice refused to answer on Freedom of Information request, pertaining to the names and locations of such courts. The results should raise concerns regarding establishment of ”black hole” prisons and ”field courts”.
- Electronic Signature Act (2001): The evidence shows that the Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel has deliberately undermined the implementation and enforcement of the Act over the past decade, and with it, the integrity of legal and financial records of the State of Israel. The Ministry of Justice also refused to produce the appointment record of the current Registrar of Certifying Authorities, if any existed.
- The findings hold serious implications relative to local socio-economic trends, banking regulation, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The findings should also require reassessment of any faith and credit, which may be given to legal public records originating in the courts of the State of Israel by other nations, including, but not limited to those, who are parties to the Hague Convention (1961).
- The Human Rights Alert submission recommends:
- 1. The electronic records systems of the courts should be examined, repaired, and validated by Israeli computing and legal experts, under accountability to the legislature.
- 2. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be established relative to conduct of members of the judiciary and the legal profession, who were involved in undermining the integrity of the systems;
- 3. No court of any nation should be permitted to develop and implement its own electronic record systems.
http://www.scribd.com/Human_
http://www.facebook.com/
[2] 12-05-10 Human Right Alert's 2013 State of Israel UPR Appendix to Submission: Integrity, or lack thereof, in the electronic records of the courts
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
http://www.sysnan.co.il/web/
[4] Legal expert opined, “I think it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history… I can't think of one where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." in: S. Paltrow, “Special Report: The watchdogs that didn't bark,” Reuters, December 11, 2011.
[5] Zernik, J: Fraud and corruption in the US courts is tightly linked to failing banking regulation and the financial crisis, 16th World Criminology Congress (2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
Saturday, May 26, 2012
12-05-26 Mission Accomplished in Afghanistan!
Human Rights, US-style, to be established...
The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face
Erik Kain, Contributor 12/05/2011
If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists.
READ MORE:http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/05/the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-the-greatest-threat-to-civil-liberties-americans-face/
In March, the United States and Afghanistan announced that the U.S.-run Bagram prison near Kabul will soon be handed over to Afghan control. It was a major diplomatic breakthrough that paved the way for the signing of a Strategic Partnership Agreement by President Obama and President Karzai on May 2. But the agreement to handover Bagram is leading to a dramatic and dangerous expansion of detention power in Afghanistan-and a potentially disastrous legacy for the United States.
READ MORE:http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/14/karzais_bid_for_a_dictatorial_detention_law
The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face
Erik Kain, Contributor 12/05/2011
If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists.
READ MORE:http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/05/the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-the-greatest-threat-to-civil-liberties-americans-face/
Karzai's bid for a dictatorial detention law
By Chris Rogers Monday, May 14, 2012In March, the United States and Afghanistan announced that the U.S.-run Bagram prison near Kabul will soon be handed over to Afghan control. It was a major diplomatic breakthrough that paved the way for the signing of a Strategic Partnership Agreement by President Obama and President Karzai on May 2. But the agreement to handover Bagram is leading to a dramatic and dangerous expansion of detention power in Afghanistan-and a potentially disastrous legacy for the United States.
READ MORE:http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/14/karzais_bid_for_a_dictatorial_detention_law
Friday, May 25, 2012
12-05-24 Planting Evidence to Sow Fear: Chicago Cops are the Terrorists
By Dave Lindorff
May 24, 2012 "Information Clearing House" It seems pretty clear by now that the three young “domestic terrorists” arrested by Chicago police in a warrantless house invasion reminiscent of what US military forces are doing on a daily basis in Afghanistan, are the victims of planted evidence -- part of the police-state-style crackdown on anti-NATO protesters in Chicago last week.
The Chicago Police clearly realized that it would be hard to convince a jury that the homemade beer-making equipment in the house was some dreaded bio-terror weapon, so for good measure they apparently dropped off some glass jars with gas in them and tried to make out that the kids were preparing molotov cocktails. That’s the word from National Lawyers Guild attorneys representing the men. They say their clients and others like them coming into Chicago from out of town to join in protests against the NATO summit were “befriended” by police informants and undercover Chicago Police, who then offered to obtain gasoline or explosive materials like toy rocket motors, and who proposed actions like firebombing police stations.
READ MORE:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31413.htm
May 24, 2012 "Information Clearing House" It seems pretty clear by now that the three young “domestic terrorists” arrested by Chicago police in a warrantless house invasion reminiscent of what US military forces are doing on a daily basis in Afghanistan, are the victims of planted evidence -- part of the police-state-style crackdown on anti-NATO protesters in Chicago last week.
The Chicago Police clearly realized that it would be hard to convince a jury that the homemade beer-making equipment in the house was some dreaded bio-terror weapon, so for good measure they apparently dropped off some glass jars with gas in them and tried to make out that the kids were preparing molotov cocktails. That’s the word from National Lawyers Guild attorneys representing the men. They say their clients and others like them coming into Chicago from out of town to join in protests against the NATO summit were “befriended” by police informants and undercover Chicago Police, who then offered to obtain gasoline or explosive materials like toy rocket motors, and who proposed actions like firebombing police stations.
READ MORE:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31413.htm
12-05-25 The Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts is asked for comments on recent reports "Integrity, or lack thereof, in the courts' electronic record systems"
A report, recently submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council, and another, concurrently submitted for peer-review in an Information Systems Analysis journal, detailed material deficiencies in the integrity of the courts' electronic record systems.![[]](https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=5c7629aba9&view=att&th=1378472edf23c12d&attid=0.1&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1)
View as PDF:http://www.scribd.com/doc/94806024/
Jerusalem, May 25 - Human Rights Alert (NGO) has filed two recent reports for comments by the Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts. [1,2] The reports, one of which was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council, and the other, submitted for peer review in an Informations Systems and Data Analysis journal, detailed material deficiencies in integrity of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel.
According to the web site of the Chamber, [3] it is "the central, leading professional body regarding information systems and information technology in Israel... The Chamber was established to promote the profession of Information Systems Analysis and the representation of the Members in all related professional matters...."
The first Goal of the Chamber includes, "obtaining statutory recognition for the profession of Information System Analysis in Israel."
Large-scale fraud in the electronic records of the courts, banks, and registrations systems, have been recognized as key to the ongoing financial crisis in the United States. [4, 5]
Following is the abstract of the paper, submitted for peer-review in an Information Systems and data analysis journal, and for comments by the Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts.
The 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations was reviewed by the HRC professional staff and incorporated in the official HRC Professional Staff Report with a note referring to “corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California.”
http://www.scribd.com/Human_
http://www.facebook.com/
[2] 12-05-10 Human Right Alert's 2013 State of Israel UPR Appendix to Submission: Integrity, or lack thereof, in the electronic records of the courts
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
http://www.sysnan.co.il/web/
[4] Legal expert opined, “I think it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history… I can't think of one where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." in: S. Paltrow, “Special Report: The watchdogs that didn't bark,” Reuters, December 11, 2011.
[5] Zernik, J: Fraud and corruption in the US courts is tightly linked to failing banking regulation and the financial crisis, 16th World Criminology Congress (2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
View as PDF:http://www.scribd.com/doc/94806024/
Jerusalem, May 25 - Human Rights Alert (NGO) has filed two recent reports for comments by the Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts. [1,2] The reports, one of which was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council, and the other, submitted for peer review in an Informations Systems and Data Analysis journal, detailed material deficiencies in integrity of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel.
According to the web site of the Chamber, [3] it is "the central, leading professional body regarding information systems and information technology in Israel... The Chamber was established to promote the profession of Information Systems Analysis and the representation of the Members in all related professional matters...."
The first Goal of the Chamber includes, "obtaining statutory recognition for the profession of Information System Analysis in Israel."
Large-scale fraud in the electronic records of the courts, banks, and registrations systems, have been recognized as key to the ongoing financial crisis in the United States. [4, 5]
Following is the abstract of the paper, submitted for peer-review in an Information Systems and data analysis journal, and for comments by the Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts.
- Integrity, of lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel
- Abstract The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights in Israel, filed in May 2012, is probably a first – being narrowly focused on integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, district courts, and the detainees’ courts of the State of Israel. The underlying research is primarily based on data mining of the online public records of the courts.
- Supreme Court: On or about March 2002, integrity of the electronic records was seriously compromised. Around that date, increased irregularity is seen in certification authorities and numerous falsified decision records were discovered. Today, all electronic records are published with no certification at all, “subject to editing and phrasing changes”. False and deliberately misleading certifications of decisions of the Supreme Court, which were recently issued by the office of the Chief Clerk, were also discovered. The Administration of Courts also refused to produce the appointment record of the current Chief Clerk, if any existed.
- District Courts: The publicly accessible records were found invalid, primarily for failure to display visible, reliable digital signatures of judges and authentication records by clerks. The State Ombudsman’s Report 60b (2010) details various apparent violations of the law in development and implementation of the system.
- Detainees Courts: The insecure, unsigned decisions of the detainees courts, often created long time after the dates of the hearings, could not possibly be considered valid legal records. The detainees ID numbers show suspicious discontinuities and failure to correlate with time of issuance. Media reported the conduct of simulated hearing, and issuance of simulated decision in one of the courts. The Israeli Ministry of Justice refused to answer on Freedom of Information request, pertaining to the names and locations of such courts. The results should raise concerns regarding establishment of ”black hole” prisons and ”field courts”.
- Electronic Signature Act (2001): The evidence shows that the Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel has deliberately undermined the implementation and enforcement of the Act over the past decade, and with it, the integrity of legal and financial records of the State of Israel. The Ministry of Justice also refused to produce the appointment record of the current Registrar of Certifying Authorities, if any existed.
- The findings hold serious implications relative to local socio-economic trends, banking regulation, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The findings should also require reassessment of any faith and credit, which may be given to legal public records originating in the courts of the State of Israel by other nations, including, but not limited to those, who are parties to the Hague Convention (1961).
- The Human Rights Alert submission recommends:
- 1. The electronic records systems of the courts should be examined, repaired, and validated by Israeli computing and legal experts, under accountability to the legislature.
- 2. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be established relative to conduct of members of the judiciary and the legal profession, who were involved in undermining the integrity of the systems;
- 3. No court of any nation should be permitted to develop and implement its own electronic record systems.
The 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations was reviewed by the HRC professional staff and incorporated in the official HRC Professional Staff Report with a note referring to “corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California.”
http://www.scribd.com/Human_
http://www.facebook.com/
[2] 12-05-10 Human Right Alert's 2013 State of Israel UPR Appendix to Submission: Integrity, or lack thereof, in the electronic records of the courts
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
http://www.sysnan.co.il/web/
[4] Legal expert opined, “I think it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history… I can't think of one where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." in: S. Paltrow, “Special Report: The watchdogs that didn't bark,” Reuters, December 11, 2011.
[5] Zernik, J: Fraud and corruption in the US courts is tightly linked to failing banking regulation and the financial crisis, 16th World Criminology Congress (2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
Thursday, May 24, 2012
12-05-23 The Continually Expanding Definition of Terrorism
Public Intelligence
May 23, 2012
May 23, 2012
Though the United States has been engaged in a Global War on Terror for more than a decade, the U.S. Government surprisingly does not have a standardized definition of terrorism that is agreed upon by all agencies.
The State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and a number of other government agencies all utilize differing definitions of what constitutes an act of terrorism.
This lack of agreement has allowed individual agencies to present different and, in some cases, far more inclusive definitions of terrorist acts enabling the use of expanded investigative procedures that might not be applicable in other agencies.
The FBI utilizes a definition of terrorism based upon the agency’s general functions under 28 CFR § 0.85. Under this regulation an act of terrorism is defined by “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
The USA PATRIOT Act expanded this definition to include domestic acts within the definition of terrorism. Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Actmodified the legal definition of terrorism (18 USC § 2331) to include a category of “domestic terrorism” that is defined by “acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State” intended to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population”, “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping” that are conducted primarily within the jurisdiction of the U.S.
At the time, this expansion of the definition of terrorism was decried by the ACLU as “broad enough to encompass the activities of several prominent activist campaigns and organizations.”
One of the defining features of terrorist acts has always been a component of violence. Even under the expanded definition of terrorism created by the USA PATRIOT Act, there must be an act that is “dangerous to human life” indicating some form of physical harm to others could arise from the action.
However, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which created the Department of Homeland Security, extended the definition of terrorism further by including any act that is “damaging to critical infrastructure or key resources.”
Though this definition differs from the legal definition of international and domestic terrorism under 18 USC § 2331, the modified definition is currently used by DHS as the basis for their own activities and intelligence products that are disseminated to federal, state and local law enforcement.
The modified definition of terrorism is presented in a revised Domestic Terrorism and Homegrown Violent Extremism Lexicon published last year by DHS:
READ MORE:Any activity that involves an act that is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive to critical infrastructure or key resources, and is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state or other subdivision of the United States and appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/23/the-continually-expanding-definition-of-terrorism/
12-05-24 Nan - First Lady of the Occupy Movement...
Chicago anti-NATO demonstrations: Nan was arrested and had her walker taken.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
12-05-12 Bush and company convicted of war crimes...
May 12, 2012
Foreign Policy Journal
George W. Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentiaby Yvonne Ridley
In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.
Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers
Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were
tried in absentia in Malaysia.
The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts
from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an
ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured
in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal
unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their
key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and
cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.
Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other
relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International
Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also asking that the
names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be
entered and included in the Commission's Register of War Criminals for public
record.
The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia's retired Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of
Iraq in 2003.
He sat through the entire hearing as it took personal statements
and testimonies of three witnesses namely Abbas Abid, Moazzam Begg and Jameelah
Hameedi. The tribunal also heard two other Statutory Declarations of Iraqi
citizen Ali Shalal and Rahul Ahmed, another British citizen.
After the guilty verdict reached by five senior judges was
delivered, Mahathir Mohamad said: "Powerful countries are getting away with
murder."
War crimes expert and lawyer Francis Boyle, professor of
international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in America, was
part of the prosecution team.
After the case he said: "This is the first conviction of these
people anywhere in the world."
While the hearing is regarded by some as being purely symbolic,
human rights activist Boyle said he was hopeful that Bush and Co could soon find
themselves facing similar trials elsewhere in the world.
"We tried three times to get Bush in Canada but were thwarted by
the Canadian Government, then we scared Bush out of going to Switzerland. The
Spanish attempt failed because of the government there and the same happened in
Germany."
Boyle then referenced the Nuremberg Charter which was used as
the format for the tribunal when asked about the credibility of the initiative
in Malaysia. He quoted: "Leaders, organizers, instigators and accomplices
participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to
commit war crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any person in
execution of such a plan."
The US is subject to customary international law and to the
Principles of the Nuremberg Charter said Boyle who also believes the week-long
trial was "almost certainly" being monitored closely by both Pentagon and White
House officials.
Professor Gurdial Singh Nijar, who headed the prosecution said:
"The tribunal was very careful to adhere scrupulously to the regulations drawn
up by the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts".
He added that he was optimistic the tribunal would be followed
up elsewhere in the world where "countries have a duty to try war criminals" and
he cited the case of the former Chilean dictator Augustine Pinochet who was
arrested in Britain to be extradited to Spain on charges of war crimes.
"Pinochet was only eight years out of his presidency when that
happened."
The Pinochet case was the first time that several European
judges applied the principle of universal jurisdiction, declaring themselves
competent to judge crimes committed by former heads of state, despite local
amnesty laws.
Throughout the week the tribunal was packed with legal experts
and law students as witnesses gave testimony and then cross examination by the
defence led by lawyer Jason Kay Kit Leon.
The court heard how
The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till
today.
Moazzam Begg, now working as a director for the London-based
human rights group Cageprisoners said he was delighted with the verdict, but
added: "When people talk about Nuremberg you have to remember those tried were
all prosecuted after the war.
"Right now Guantanamo is still open, people are still being held
there and are still being tortured there."
In response to questions about the difference between the Bush
and Obama Administrations, he added: "If President Bush was the President of
extra-judicial torture then US President Barak Obama is the President of extra
judicial killing through drone strikes. Our work has only just begun."
The prosecution case rested on proving how the decision-makers
at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence
Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA
officials � all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and
became an accepted norm.
According to the prosecution, the testimony of all the witnesses
exposed a sustained perpetration of brutal, barbaric, cruel and dehumanising
course of conduct against them.
These acts of crimes were applied cumulatively to inflict the
worst possible pain and suffering, said lawyers.
The president of the tribunal Tan Sri Dato Lamin bin Haji Mohd
Yunus Lamin, found that the prosecution had established beyond a "reasonable
doubt that the accused persons, former President George Bush and his
co-conspirators engaged in a web of instructions, memos, directives, legal
advice and action that established a common plan and purpose, joint enterprise
and/or conspiracy to commit the crimes of Torture and War Crimes, including and
not limited to a common plan and purpose to commit the following crimes in
relation to the "War on Terror" and the wars launched by the U.S. and others in
Afghanistan and Iraq."
President Lamin told a packed courtroom: "As a tribunal of
conscience, the Tribunal is fully aware that its verdict is merely declaratory
in nature. The tribunal has no power of enforcement, no power to impose any
custodial sentence on any one or more of the 8 convicted persons. What we can
do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to
the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by
the Tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations
and the Security Council.
"The Tribunal also recommends to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes
Commission that the names of all the 8 convicted persons be entered and included
in the Commission's Register of War Criminals and be publicised accordingly.
"The Tribunal recommends to the War Crimes Commission to give
the widest international publicity to this conviction and grant of reparations,
as these are universal crimes for which there is a responsibility upon nations
to institute prosecutions if any of these Accused persons may enter their
jurisdictions".
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
12-05-22 The New Dr Ruth recommends celibacy...
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Boycott the US presidential vote! It only legitimizes the illegitimate... 12-04-15 2012 Presidential election votes will be counted in Spain
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Wake Up! Your are not free...
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Monday, May 21, 2012
12-05-22 More Occupy pics, Chicago, New York, elsewhere...
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
Fuck yeah. Unicorns rule, especially pink ones from New Orleans![[]](http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/313012_775745757285_16408083_37506067_715850754_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
2 minutes ago Predator UAV![[]](http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/305857_778404833475_16408083_37528386_985715727_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.8 minutes ago Students in front of me.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.8 minutes ago Surround the van and sit. Gonna need to bring more vans officers :)
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.9 minutes ago
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.![[]](http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/393634_806518458545_16408083_37705347_1377174511_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.![[]](http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/393759_806699226285_16408083_37705900_580467388_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Occupy Union Square: the beginning of the medical tent.![[]](http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/557452_897644171885_16408083_38085224_642224997_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
Occupy Union Square
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.Occupy Union Square
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
Occupy Union Square Park with Captain Ray Lewis. He's been there every day I've passed by.
Occupy Union Square Park with Captain Ray Lewis. He's been there every day I've passed by.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
Occupy Union Square ![[]](http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/485776_909994047635_16408083_38138970_840601248_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
May Day![[]](http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/p480x480/545894_937230690185_16408083_38229269_775334717_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
May Day![[]](http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/529803_937231039485_16408083_38229278_65882610_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
May Day![[]](http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/582125_937234048455_16408083_38229300_419595263_n.jpg)
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
May Day![[]](http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/546523_937255535395_16408083_38229363_1770446250_n.jpg)
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Joseph Zernik shared Jimmy OccupyEarth Holovat 's photo.
Protecting the crap out of your camera.![[]](http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/562254_953510365585_16408083_38299081_1223099280_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Occupy Wall St.'s photo.
(H) Chicago pd arresting a woman after taking away her walker - Occupy Wall St. . Joseph Zernik shared a link via Paul Taran.
Economic Hit Men: Paid Professionals who Cheat Countries Out of Trillions www.youtube.com On the Thursday, April 5 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with John Perkins, author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit.. Joseph Zernik shared Civil Resistance4America's photo.
Blockupy Frankfurt. Police are escorting, not participating. Reports of 25,000 protesters. (Dan)![[]](http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/p480x480/526679_308624179220810_130010620415501_690144_614053164_n.jpg)
. Joseph Zernik shared 99%'s photo.
Occupy Chicago, Mental Health Movement Stage Sit-In At Mayor's House, Demand Health Care Not Warfare! May - 19![[]](http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/p480x480/179517_429721263718242_404718672885168_1475416_220077513_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared 99%'s photo.
Occupiers sit in the road in front of Mayor Emmanuel's house![[]](http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/547258_429726113717757_404718672885168_1475426_1288003683_n.jpg)
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22 minutes ago Thousands of protesters have descended on the General Electric shareholders meeting in Detroit for the second day...![[]](http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/p480x480/543535_411102235580145_404718672885168_1428159_695277688_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared 99%'s photo.
Members of Occupy Wall Street slumber on the corner of Wall Street in the shadow of the New York Stock Exchange.![[]](http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/561194_411619522195083_404718672885168_1429647_1573191668_n.jpg)
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Joseph Zernik shared 99%'s photo.
2012 'May Day' Protests From Coast to Coast A police officer arrests a mask-wearing Occupy Wall Street protester on the Williamsburg Bridge during a march to Manhattan as the movement joins with activists groups for May Day demonstrations May 1, 2012 in New York. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images).![[]](http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/545160_416444528379249_404718672885168_1441815_1141291257_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared 99%'s photo.
An Occupy Seattle protester is arrested by Seattle police officers during a May Day march and demonstration, May 1, 2012, in downtown Seattle, Washington.![[]](http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/485146_416960514994317_404718672885168_1442120_1148136955_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared 99%'s photo.
Occupy Chicago, Mental Health Movement Stage Sit-In At Mayor's House, Demand Health Care Not Warfare! May - 19 Joseph Zernik shared World Must Wake Up's photo.
SHARE THIS PHOTO!!!! Thousands on the streets now on Michigan Ave. in Chicago protesting against the #NATO Summit.![[]](http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/166045_294523210637451_118192184937222_640511_2128335915_n.jpg)
Joseph Zernik shared Max Power's photo.
Welcome to Chicago!![[]](http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/544964_381280961909236_100000820071305_949258_1713726617_n.jpg)
Thousands of anti-NATO protesters marching down Michigan Ave. Estimates at 70,000 protesters.
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Joseph Zernik shared World Must Wake Up's photo.
SHARE THIS PHOTO!!!! Thousands on the streets now on Michigan Ave. in Chicago protesting against the #NATO Summit.Just saw in the news that only a few hundred showed up to the NATO protest. Yup, this looks like a few hundred to me.Joseph Zernik shared Seismologik Intelligence's photo.
The Revolution Is Still Not Televised. But you can do your part... Lift this image and copy it to your desktop, upload it everywhere. Encourage others to do the same.![[]](http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/p480x480/181264_233235313453542_134206550023086_371530_936852846_n.jpg)
Like Joseph Zernik shared Occupy Wall St.'s photo.
(H) U.S. military veterans in formation. Preparing to return their medals to NATO generals. Chicago, May 20.![[]](http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/560695_360089867392327_217514361649879_981751_1479210234_n.jpg)