Tue 15 Dec, 2009
America, fuck yea!
At least according to the Supreme Court it is:
Today, the United States Supreme Court refused to review a lower court’s dismissal of a case brought by four British former detainees against Donald Rumsfeld and senior military officers for ordering torture and religious abuse at Guantánamo. The British detainees spent more than two years in Guantanamo and were repatriated to the U.K. in 2004.
The Obama administration had asked the court not to hear the case. By refusing to hear the case, the Court let stand an earlier opinion by the D.C. Circuit Court which found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all “persons” did not apply to detainees at Guantanamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law. The lower court also dismissed the detainees’ claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the Geneva Conventions, finding defendants immune on the basis that “torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants.” Finally, the circuit court found that, even if torture and religious abuse were illegal, defendants were immune under the Constitution because they could not have reasonably known that detainees at Guantanamo had any Constitutional rights.
Translation: If you become an enemy combatant then you’re going to be tortured, and you can’t do a fucking thing about it.
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Tags: People care more about Tiger Woods banging whores than this, Supreme Court, Torture, War on TerrorComments (7)
Laci the Dog says:
Naw, you hope you are picked up by an Oath keeper and that they agree with you. They will then let you off.
Otherwise, you are fucked.
OHHH says:
The tears are streaming down my face.
There’s more torture by inmates to inmates than any ‘Pelosi Approved’ torture.
ZIRGAR says:
America! Fuck yeah!
PQ8 says:
Good lord, that picture…what is he doing with his fist?
Phuck Politics says:
@Laci the Dog – I should be fine as long as my skin color remains white.
@OHHH – There’s more torture by inmates to inmates than any ‘Pelosi Approved’ torture.
No there’s not. The only thing inmates do to other inmates is fuck each other in the ass and shank each other in the back. They don’t waterboard each other, deprive each other of sleep, starve each other, force each other to stay in uncomfortable positions, slice each other’s nuts off, and/or electrocute each other.
And I love how you call it ‘Pelosi Approved’ torture inside of Bush approved.
@PQ8 – He’s using that fist to protect you and your freedoms.
OHHH says:
1st, elect
If I were in jail for murdering innocent people, I’d prefer being sleep deprived, waterboarded, hungry, and uncomfortable. I’d MUCH prefer those to getting shanked or fucked in the ass. As for your other claims of castration and electrocution, that’s just a bunch of unproven bullshit, and if it were true certainly wan’t ‘approved’ by anyone.
Maybe YOU’d prefer getting the shank and assfucking, so ya you’d see the other things as torturous.
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