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  • G8 arrests - call out for info & witnesses
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hi, the following has been received from the G8 Legal Support group, who provided legal observers and legal info at the recent G8 protests from 2 to 9 July.
    If you were detained/arrested, witnessed a detention, or can help in any way, please read on...
    G8 & SUPPORTING THOSE ARRESTED
    At the recent G8 protests in Scotland there were some 700 people detained by the police. These are different from arrests, as the police in Scotland have the powers to “detain” for a set length of time. (…)

  • DIPLOMATIC ASSURANCES - WORTHLESS
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Countries that rely on ‘diplomatic assurances’ that other countries won’t torture transferred prisoners “are either engaging in wishful thinking or using the assurances as a figleaf to cover their complicity,” a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) charges.
    HRW said, “There is substantial evidence that in the course of the global “war on terrorism,” an increasing number of governments have transferred, or proposed sending, alleged terrorist suspects to countries (…)

  • Makeshift Memorial Run Down By Pickup Truck Driver
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Larry Northern, 59, of McLennan County, was charged Tuesday with Criminal Mischief Over $1,500 and under $20,000 after a pickup truck tore through a row of white crosses erected by anti-war protesters gathered near the President’s ranch in Crawford.
    Bail was set at $3,000. Northern later posted bond and was released.
    The crosses bear the names of U.S. military personnel who have died in the war in Iraq.
    Witnesses said the driver swerved the truck in and out of the makeshift memorial (…)

  • John Roberts and Enemy Combatants
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Floyd
    The United States long ago ceased to be anything like a living, thriving republic. But it retained the legal form of a republic, and that counted for something: as long as the legal form still existed, even as a gutted shell, there was hope it might be filled again one day with substance.
    But now the very legal structures of the Republic are being dismantled. The principle of arbitrary rule by an autocratic leader is being openly established, through a series of (…)

  • Pope seeks immunity in Texas abuse case
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VATICAN CITY — Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
    The Vatican’s embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope’s lawyers in (…)

  • Roberts authored memo on tribute for fetuses Nominee wrote that memorial would draw attention to ‘abortion tragedy’
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts concluded that a group’s memorial service for aborted fetuses was “an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy.”
    Roberts wrote the advice in an October 1985 memo after he was asked to review a proposed telegram from President Reagan to the memorial service promoted by the California Pro Life Medical Association.
    “The president’s position is that the fetuses were (…)

  • Fidel Castro says: "Release Cuban Five or Face Nuremberg"
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Release Cuban Five or Face Nuremberg, says Fidel Castro
    Havana, Aug 15 (AIN) President Fidel Castro said that true justice in the Cuban Five case will only occur when the men - considered national heroes on the island- are released and return to Cuba.
    During an encounter Saturday in Havana with the mothers, spouses and children of the five Cubans imprisoned in the US for trying to prevent terrorist attacks against the island, Fidel Castro praised the decision made by three judge (…)

  • Lula’s Sorry for Corruption Scandal, Promises Sanctions
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has asked for forgiveness from the Brazilian people for a scandal that has engulfed his government and promised that the guilty ones will be punished.
    In asking for apologies in a TV address to the nation, he insisted he knows nothing about the alleged corruption, including a cash-for-votes scheme in the Brazilian Congress, in which key members of his Workers’ Party (PT) are said to be involved.
    He also called for reform to the (…)

  • It’s not who they are — it’s who we are
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - There is a quiet struggle going on in the nation’s capital, and the stakes are the very soul of the Republican Party and this administration.
    Three senior Republican senators wrote a small amendment into the defense appropriations bill this summer that outlaws cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of all detainees in American custody.
    No one can call Sens. John Warner, R-Va., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., soft on anything, much less terrorism. (…)

  • Father, Who Lost Son at WTC, Claims Bush Administration Hiding Key Financial Documents
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Father, Who Lost Son at WTC, Claims Bush Administration Hiding Key Financial Documents Leading To Culprits of 9/11
    William Doyle has become one of the main lightening rods of the 9/11 truth movement, saying President Bush and his cronies are the biggest stumbling block in getting at the real truth. Involved as one of the plaintiffs in a trillion dollar 9/11 lawsuit, he wants the American people to know Bush is hiding vital documents that could lead to the truth. August 6, 2005
    By Greg (…)