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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:07:31 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [L&J] Operation Torture and Terror (Against Canada) continues
The method being used against Canada can be expected globally. Those who
are "non-compliant" with U-S-A wishes will be threatened with death and
severe pain through discontinuation of the essentials for life and health,
ie food, shelter, clothing and medical care. So this is torture and terror
applied on a POPULATION basis and it can range in severity from mild to
extreme. Canada is currently at a fairly mild level of abuse but that
could change tomorrow.
POC
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:58:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [UNIVERSALHUMANRIGHTS] Law Scholars Urge Impeachment! (fwd)
"Coercive techniques" indeed. One of those coercive techniques being used
against Canadians is "the threat of death or severe pain" which was
officially at least rejected by Rumsfeld. But this coercive method is used
every day in BC to coerce cheap labour for Walmart, MacDonalds etc.
POC
<http://www.geocities.com/universalhumanrightscanada>
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:27:05 -0400
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Subject: Law Scholars Urge Impeachment!
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/062004L.shtml
Harvard Law Professors Urge Congress to Review
Interrogation Policy and Hold Executive Branch Accountable
Harvard Law School News
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
A group of more than 450 professors of law, international relations, and public policy
-- led by Harvard Law School faculty members -- today sent a letter calling on
Congress to hold accountable, through impeachmeent and removal if appropriate,
civilian officials from the top of the Executive Branch on down for policies developed
at high levels that have facilitated the recent abuses at Abu Ghraib. The letter also
calls on Congress to take primary responsibility for any policy on coercive
interrogation employed by the United States.
In asking Congress to assess Executive Branch accountability, the letter says: "a
growing body of evidence indicates that the abuses practiced on detainees under
American control are the consequence of policies developed at the highest levels in
the months and years immediately preceding the scandal." It argues that prosecution
of lower level personnel "while necessary, is clearly insufficient."
In asking Congress to take responsibility for reviewing coercive interrogation
policies and practices, the letter notes that "official U.S. policy now involves use
of coercive methods that are morally questionable and that may violate international
and domestic law." It further states: "... any decision to adopt a coercive
interrogation policy and the definition of any such policy, if adopted, should be made
within the strict confines of a democratic process ... [B]asic principles and policies
regarding human rights must be defined by a representative and accountable body acting
in transparent and deliberative fashion."
Elizabeth Bartholet, one of the Harvard Law professors organizing the letter effort,
stated: "The letter arose out of our concern that some of the most fundamental issues
raised by these abuses were getting lost in the debate. The use of torture and
related extreme coercive techniques goes to the heart of our understanding of our
nation, its culture and values. If we take seriously our democratic system, any
decision to use such techniques must be made by Congress as the representative body,
rather than by Executive Branch officials working in secrecy."
Christine Desan, another organizer, stated: "As the letter emphasizes, there can be no
doubt that the acts of abuse in Abu Ghraib prison constitute violations of both the
domestic and international legal obligations of the U.S. and its agents. Executive
Branch officials have admitted as much."
Henry Steiner, director of Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program, said: "The
policies adopted and the abuses to which they led have hurt not only the immediate
victims in terrible ways but also the credibility and effectiveness of our country's
efforts in Iraq and elsewhere."
<...>
"The soldiers responsible for these atrocities need to be held accountable. But they
were not responsible for setting the policy," said Senator Edward Kennedy. "We need
to know what orders and guidelines they were given, and where those policies
originated. No one should be immune to questions, including the President."
The letter has been signed by 56 law teachers at Harvard Law School, including former
Dean Robert C. Clark, and Professors Laurence Tribe, Alan Dershowitz, Lani Guinier,
Detlev Vagts and Frank Michelman. It has also been signed by leading experts on
international relations, public policy and constitutional law across the nation,
including Yale University Professor Bruce Ackerman; Professor Philip Alston, director
of NYU's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice; Jose Alvarez, director of the
Center on Global Legal Problems at Columbia Law School; Duke Law School Professor Paul
Carrington; Georgetown Law School Professor David Cole; Princeton Professor Richard
Falk; Columbia Law School Professor Jack Greenberg; Kennedy School of Government
Professor Christopher Jencks; UCLA Law School Professor Kenneth Karst; Juliette Kayyem
of the Kennedy School of Government; University of Texas Law School Professor Sanford
Levinson; David Scheffer, former U.S. ambassador at large for w!
ar cri
mes issues; and Harvard University Professor William Julius Wilson.
The letter has also been signed by members of the Faculty of the Tufts University
Fletcher School. It has been signed by a total of 481 members of university faculties
across the nation, from more than 110 schools in 40 different states. It has been
sent to all members of Congress, and of the relevant Congressional committees.
The letter and the list of signers as of June 14 is available at:
http://www.iraq-letter.com
Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
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