Comments on: U.S. Govt. Blocks Lawyer Access To Gitmo

Citing New Ruling, Justice Dept. Prevents Attorneys From Seeing Clients At Guantanamo Bay

[ramos937]

To all of you who favor keeping GITMO. Originally, we had over 900 detainees; today, we have a bit over 400. These 500 were released or turned over to the native countries or are still held in GITMO because the USA has found them innocent but found no country willing to take them. President Bush is in favor of closing GITMO is is SecDef Gates and most of the American people. Given all of this, why are you, along with Cheney, still want to keep the detainees at GITMO?

[brianbwb-2009]

to Searing trith.

By the way, it is good to read your elegant posts again. If the US media tried to portray the protest as a minor event, they failed internationally, it was covered in detail in Indonesia, some parts were broadcast live.

It was also reported in Singapore, and my associates tell me they saw it in Malaysia, Thailand, and China.

Keep up the pressure, and know that kindred spirits are echoing the same sentiments in demonstrations at or near US embassies all over the world.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by SearingTruth,

I agree the world had a great respect for the US that has, since the Bush foreign policy began, been lost. However, the world, for decades, has also been aware of America''s history of inhumanity towards its citizens of non European heritage.

The mask that Americans thought they had hidden their deficiencies behind, was actually rather transparent, the world saw the US as an undisciplined spoiled child, but a big one that could shield them against the advance of undesirable ideologies, and so wealthy that it was prudent to overlook her shortcomings.

Not any more. The world now sees the US as a delinquent and uneducated bully, on one hand stealing the resources of other countries, attempting to dictate economic and social policies to the detriment of all but a small clique, while also trying hypocritically to force ideologies that we ourselves don''t follow, in defiance of international consensus and law.

The world used to ignore these things, as we basically acted in this manner to our own, and our economy was so strong that the positives of doing business with us outweighed the negatives. Since Reagan, however, the world has increasingly felt American hegemony, watched our economy collapse into the hands of fewer and fewer people, thus becoming less relevant, and as the world is being forced to recognize the dangers, advocate resistance.

[mcvet]

Thank God for President Bush who has the balls to protect this nation from the maniacs who would kill us all. The libs have given up the fight, we are all finished if the DemonCraps are elected to the Presidency.


Posted by RingADing3 at 02:53 AM : Sep 23, 2007
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Really? Which Bush Lie is your favorite? OR do you still believe the Mission In Iraq has been accomplished? Do you think Bin Laden isn''t Important anymore? Is it your opinion that the Taliban is Dead? How about the fact that we are WINNING in Iraq? Oh! Here''s a really good one. Do you think that we should have refused to allow the UN Inspectors to continue in Iraq because of the "Smoking Gun" PROVING that Saddam had WMD''s? ROFLMAO Sparky I would really like to know where you live because I have some land to sell and YOU are just the person to buy it! ROFLMAO Honestly I have a dog smarter than you are... at least if you LIE to her enough she has the intelligence to FIGURE IT OUT!! Sieg Heil Bush!!

[searingtruth]

Mirror

My friends, sometimes the most difficult thing about fighting evil is realizing that it actually exists, and then unambiguously and forcefully calling it what it is.

History shows time and time again that one of evils greatest strengths is its ability to disguise itself as good, or at least a temporary necessity, until that last fatal moment when its revelation becomes clear, indisputable, and inescapable.

So today let us take a clear and unadulterated look into the mirror at ourselves.

Just six years ago we were one of the most respected and admired defenders of democracy and human rights in history. Respected not only by our friends, but even begrudgingly by most of our enemies. In fact, even the fantastic power of our military paled in comparison to the overwhelming might of our moral authority.

Today we are a nation that operates secret prisons occupied by anonymous inmates, illegally abducted and held indefinitely without charge or representation. We are guilty of torture. We are guilty of murder. We are guilty of preemptive war of conquest. We are guilty of the wholesale surveillance of our population, suppressing all hope of privacy and free dissent. And we are guilty of disgracing our nation through the abandonment of even our most basic precepts of morality.

If this is not evil, then nothing we have ever fought against is evil, and nothing we have ever fought for is good.


Excerpt from A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[ringading3]

Thank God for President Bush who has the balls to protect this nation from the maniacs who would kill us all. The libs have given up the fight, we are all finished if the DemonCraps are elected to the Presidency.

[bobgee_1999]

Guantanamo Bay is a disgrace to the supposed values of the U.S. What exactly are we keping these people for? Assuming they had any valuable information, one assumes it''s been tortured out of them by this time, and anything they knew is years out-of-date now anyway. So what is it, life imprisonment for defending against an American invasion? And let''s drop all this nonsense about non-uniformed combatants, shall we? That''s just cherry-picking the Geneva Conventions to get away with inhumane behavior. So let me ask you rednecks something. If we''re invaded tomorrow are you going to leave your gun at home, since you aren''t wearing a uniform? In this so-called "War on Terror," we need to remain concerned about our own values, and keep America something worth defending.

[socrates392]

Bottom Line is ......

these evil scum bag COMBATANTS are NOT AMERICANS AND DESERVE NOTHING FROM THE US CITIZENS OR the US CONSTITUTION !!

LET THEM ROT !

Posted by dowjones20k at 07:44 PM : Sep 22, 2007

Bottom line is . . . Bush agrees with you. Nevertheless, you are both fools who are betraying the principles of our founding fathers! Shame on you! I pray that you shown the error of your ways.

[j-whitman]

Is it Scooter Cheney, Darth Cheney, Richard Vader, Richard Scooter, George Libby ???? ,,,,,, How many branches of government is he 4 ??? I get so confused

[j-whitman]

The only lawyers that should be blocked are Bush''s ENRON Lawyers & Scooter Cheney''s Haliburton Lawyers.