[PAA-Discuss] Fwd: U.S. Govmt plans to use evidence from torture in death penalty case

[rscott77092 at oplink.net]

Conyers did this to us before - he's been waffling back and forth like a
man with a gun held to his head trying to tell you he has a gun held to
his head but without actually saying it out loud.
I, too, got real enthused the last time this came up and eventually gave
up on him.




> Would that it were so simple.   But I am of the opinion that it would
> additionally require the work of those of us on the inside of the USA.
> And that is why I favor an effort among us along the lines already begun
> here:
>
>   http://www.democrats.com/conyers-start-impeachment-hearings
>   "Call Conyers' office at 202-225-5126 and say you would like him to
> begin Cheney impeachment hearings immediately."
>   http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/125
>
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> rscott77092 at oplink.net wrote:
>   The only way these criminals will be brought to justice is if this
> country is invaded and conquered by a foreign army who are willing to go
> straight to Dick Cheney's underground bunker and Georgie's "ranch" and
> leave the rest of us alone.
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> (I wrote)
>  OK, now last I heard, murder was considered naughty, and one isn't
>  supposed to do it. Torture is considered even naughtier than murder, so
>  one certainly isn't supposed to commit torture. And it always leads to
>  false "confessions," so "evidence" gained from it amounts to proving one
>  has been guilty of committing torture.
>
>  What is boggling my mind right now, is, How on the Green Planet has it
>  come about that the torturers themselves are not facing the death
> penalty???
>
>  Was there some weasely kind of legal gimmick that prevented charges from
>  being pressed against them?
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