(AND YOUR EYES SHUT) Wake up, silly amerikans. Your government says it can take foreign nationals off planes and ship them off wherever they like without due process. You should close your eyes and like it because they are defending your freedom to be chained anyway they want. The case of MAHER ARAR should keep you up nights. Once again we hear an EXTRAORDINARY RENDTION of a sad song
IT IS A "STATE SECRET" why the Syrian government that tortured Mister Maher Arar at Amerika's request cleared Arar of any Al Queda connection, but the United States says he still is. Look at the logic of the morally lost.
[NY TIMES] "Would not such treatment of a detainee - in any context, criminal, civil, immigration or otherwise - violate both the Constitution and clearly established case law?" Judge Trager asked.
The reply by Mary Mason, a senior trial lawyer for the government, was that it would not. Legally, she said, anyone who presents a foreign passport at an American airport, even to make a connecting flight to another country, is seeking admission to the United States. If the government decides that the passenger is an "inadmissible alien," he remains legally outside the United States - and outside the reach of the Constitution - even if he is being held in a Brooklyn jail. . . .
Dennis Barghaan, who represents former Attorney General John Ashcroft, one of the federal officials being sued for damages in the case, argued that Congress and recent judicial decisions tell federal courts "keep your nose out" of foreign affairs and national security questions, like those in this case.
At several points the judge seemed to echo such concerns. He said he had refused to read a letter from the plaintiffs detailing testimony before a Canadian board of inquiry into Mr. Arar's case because he did not know how to deal with questions that might require the government to confirm or deny classified information.
"How am I going to handle that?" he asked, rubbing his forehead and furrowing his brow before adjourning the hearing.
HOW IS THAT JUDGE GOING TO HANDLE THAT? Hopefully not by taking a snooze so you lose more of your rights. This Mason lawyer lady really has it both ways with a prisoner detained. The prisoner is here so he can be caught, but once here he is no longer . . . here. Twisted people make twisted arguments.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HANDLE THAT, AMERIKA? At some point, you amerikans might want to remember that no matter how much scrambled scribbling goes on trying to cross out whole sections of the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution, The Constitution . . . still exists. While terrible precedents are being set in lower and lower courts, you amerikans need to remind your leaders you are a nation of laws, not men. When men trample on your essential law, you need to give them das boot.
COFFEE IS ON THE HOUSE, but you will have to up on the roof to get it. Today’s recommended brew is BROOKLYN BLUE.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: What is bugging you about your government?
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[TRESY/CORRENTE]
[EMPIRE BURLESQUE] There's no such thing as the constitutional republic known as the United States of America anymore. It doesn't exist, it's long gone; you can look all you want, but it's just not there.
[HAT TIP: KING OF ZEMBLA]
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