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    • Rigged Trials at Guantanamo

      Posted by okami from Truth Out

      The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon's announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes - and seeking the death penalty for all of them.

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      OPINION FEATURE: American torture past and present

      Posted by okami

      Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the language that, when coupled with expanding military and commercial ambitions, had helped launch two very different wars. The

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    • Justice Official Defends Rough CIA Interrogations

      Posted by okami from Washington Post

      The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.

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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution

    our abuse of the animal world since the domestication revolution in 8000 bc diserves some rerperations.

    the slavery and death camp comparisions…

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    2:56 am 7/14/08
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    Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution

    that’s cool, humans taking responsibilities for their actions. our actions affect ecosystems which in turn affects us. I don’t think the U.S. will ever do that. The U.S. thinks they own the world and everyone in it from animals to "foreigners". The U.S. says "The world’s my oyster. you are my *****es." BWAHAHAHAHA!

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    8:25 am 7/09/08
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    mozellagi2000 comments on:

    Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution

    Preposterous.  Granting rights without expecting responsibilities is nothing short of insanity. Gorilla’s, trees and lakes have no obligation to us, therefore we have no obligation to grant rights to them.  As for Ron Sims attempting to steal land from King Country residents, finally a small glimmer of sanity has finally taken root in the Washington State court system. 

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    6:15 am 7/09/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution

    Leif, I mentioned that exact story today to Mari Margil today in Portland.

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    12:41 am 7/09/08
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    leif comments on:

    Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution

    This is so great. It sets an immensely important precedent.


    Here’s an interesting local angle in today’s Seattle Times: The same day Ecuador enshrined nature’s inherent right to exist in its constitution, an appeals court in Washington State struck down part of King County’s 2004 "critical-areas ordinance," calling it "an indirect but illegal ‘tax, fee, or charge’ on development." The ordinance limits landowners to clearing no more than half of the vegetation—read: forest—on parcels larger than 1.25 acres or 35% of lots larger than 5 acres. Property-rights activists gleefully revved their chainsaws, while enviros and county officials wrung their hands.


    Quite a contrast, no? Can we get Tom Linzey back here to talk to the WA legislature?

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    10:11 pm 7/08/08
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    Jeff comments on:

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    3:45 pm 7/08/08
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    bigjer comments on:

    Illegal Immigration Spurs Constitutional Amendment - Associated Content

    An art. V was tried in Sept. of 2004, and s.c.o.t.u.s. ruled it was ok for the congress to not allow it…so, the entire Congress was sued, and hired the Govt. to defend them..they again lost.

    However, it has now proved to be a criminal act ,in that they had basically admitted to it by defending themselves…...

    It appears now that there are a few new approaches to the Art. V , but not to many Attny’s are willing to stick their necks out fighting our own CROOKED govt.

    please read the article on WALKER vs theU.S….probably find it in google….

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    5:46 pm 6/28/08
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    former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats

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