US law schools faculty members finally waking up!
Previous protests were mostly by individual law professors. The two new letters show that US law school faculty members are finally finding their voice!
Los Angeles, April 11 - The letter regarding humiliation of Manning, signed by 250, mostly law professors, [1] and the previous letter, signed by over 100 law professor, regarding ethics, or lack thereof, in conduct of the US Supreme Court justices, [2] are unprecedented, as far as can be remembered...
Previous protests were mostly by individual law professors. (see quotes below)
In view of the widespread corruption of the US justice system, there are quite a few subjects that could be protested, but the above two letters show that US law school faculty members are finally finding their voice!
LINKS:
[1] 11-04-28 Private Manning's Humiliation by Bruce Ackerman and Yochai Benkler _ The New York Review of Books
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52727258/
[2] 11-02-23 Ethics and Recusal Rules - Letter by US Law Professors
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
Human Rights Alert is dedicated to discovering, archiving, and disseminating evidence of Human Rights violations by the justice systems of the State of California and the United States in Los Angeles County, California, and beyond. Human Rights Alert focuses on the unique role of computerized case management systems in the precipitous deterioration of the integrity of the justice system in the United States.
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/
* "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/
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9 comments:
What is unprecedented to me is their silence over Obama's ineligibility and the devastation to our Constitution. Protecting human rights as a matter of ethics is essential in our society, but with a properly installed and respected constitution in place there would be no human rights violations.
Am I being naive? (USA)
There were more than a few outrageous issues on which they should have spoken up, but they remained silent...
Finally, let's hope that they are finding their voice...
Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
ALL the original vids that Manning put out on the web have been either edited or toned down. Nolonger can we see in the clip the private on the ground lifting the Camera and claim to the pilot that he found an RPG round on one of the dead.
This is how corrupt things are. Even the vid with the proof is tampered with. Go try and find the original vid..
What reports to be the original is all you can find with google. So even google are in on this?
Where is the original vid.?
These guys are going to roast in electric chairs when people find out. Manning was betrayed by his own people
Posted 23 mins ago by "OwenHiggins" (R) (Italy)
Not sure what you are talking about. Please try to explain clearly the basic facts you are referring to.
Posted 3 hours ago by "jz12345" (R)
I went looking for this vid in it entirety not so long ago. What i found was a Julian hassan version - presumably faked. But the important parts have been edited out - so what people see when they look up the Collateral vid is an edited down version.
Not the original.
In the original you can quite easily make out that the ground troops were colluding with the apache pilots.
Instead of reporting to the pilots that indeed they picked up a camera belonging to the photographer. The guy on the ground says yeah its eh, an RPG round.
so as nobody would get in trouble for the massacre - Which is why MAnning leaked it. But not one person either watched the whole vid or recognised the importance of why manning released it.
MAnning was doing what any human being would do - not only was he outting the facts but he was obviously seeing this same stuff day in day out if he took the risk to out it.
His countrymen betrayed him, support the troops? is that what it is.. what poppicockness ..
Posted 2 hours ago by "OwenHiggins" (R)
It sounds strange that they would be able to completely eliminate from the internet a video that was so widely reported...
Are you sure it can found nowhere?
Posted very recently by "jz12345" (R)
Are the videos at the links below edited?
LINKS:
[1]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack
[2] http://www.collateralmurder.com/
Posted very recently by "jz12345" (R)
holy shit yeah, as far as I remember it was 18 minutes long. Now you've got me on this mission again - but i guess manning is worth it. cause i thought that was just a given with the footage.
loads missing from first clip from guardian. you see troops moving in on the location and all.
in the second link collateral murder 39minutes long clip - the second vid is the one - At 19:20-19:27 minutes in the guy on the ground reports an RPG round - if you watch the clip closely from 17:00 onwards you'll see the troop on the ground discovering the camera/RPG round
At 18:00 three points enter behind the bradleys
18:24 you hear in the background, "we're monitoring."
19:20 - "this is four", "i got one individual with an RPG round." These were all reporters, or friends. It wasn't an RPG round.
Break
Posted 11 hours ago by "OwenHiggins" (R) (Italy)
btw I spent the last two hours making sure the clip hadn't been tampered with by watching the seconds on the camera, verses a stop watch. How incredibly nerdy is that.
I maybe imagined a camera being lifted, or maybe it is in there, either way i couldn't see that exact footage. But the point is that they didn't find an RPG round, but they said they did.
And this was just one occassion.
And thats what Manning was trying to say.
Posted 11 hours ago by "OwenHiggins" (R) (Italy)
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