Padilla Finally Charged With Something After 3.5 Years
Remember that Jose Padilla guy? He got picked up in May '02 and stories circulated about how he was gonna set off a dirty bomb and how dangerous he is... Well, after being given a deadline of next Monday by the US Supreme Court to charge him with SOMETHING, he's been charged with... umm, being "trained as a terrorist in preparation to fight a jihad."
What happened to the whole setting off a dirty bomb and blowing up hotels and shit? If this guy was such a badass, didn't they find any explosives in his possession? Documentation? Trace evidence??? Three and a half years and the best you could come up with was charging him with being trained as a terrorist?
Why do I get the feeling that MAYBE this guy was Low Scrubby on the Totem Pole? And for three and a half years, our government made him sit in jail with only limited access to his lawyers? This is just weak sauce.
What happened to the whole setting off a dirty bomb and blowing up hotels and shit? If this guy was such a badass, didn't they find any explosives in his possession? Documentation? Trace evidence??? Three and a half years and the best you could come up with was charging him with being trained as a terrorist?
Why do I get the feeling that MAYBE this guy was Low Scrubby on the Totem Pole? And for three and a half years, our government made him sit in jail with only limited access to his lawyers? This is just weak sauce.
by MG at 8:45 AM
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Locked in a Gulag until they could entice a 4th Circuit ruling that would allow Mr. Bush's "tribunals" to continue ad infinitum. Of course offering a seat on the US Supreme court didn't have anything to do the judge's decision to support the Bush position. Noooo. Then just as it looks like the Supreme Court will hear the Padilla case and maybe counter the limitless power of the Bushistas, they trump up some phony charge to stop the certiori. Give me a break, are we a banana republic or what?
How long will the sheeple of America continue to watch these heinous Christo-fascists wipe their ass with our Constitution?
Maybe we should send a couple of hundred thousand letters to the US Justice Dept saying "I trained to be a terrorist" and see if they can arrest us all?
No...never mind, I'll just drive 300 miles in my SUV to pig out on a weeks' worth of food for small family then fall asleep in front of my widescreen watching football. WhatEVER was I thinking?
You get what you settle for. Hitler didn't rise to power in a arc of splendor, it came bit by bit, day by day. Because people accepted the small changes.
--Anad
If I remember correctly they concocted the whole "dirty bomb" nonsense because Padilla supposedly visited some internet website that describes making them. That's it. He didn't have possession of explosives or any other type of weapons. They "captured" [read: kidnapped] him in O'Hare airport when he flew back from overseas but oddly they haven't tried to make up some story about him wanting to hijack an airliner; maybe that's next. This is scary, in that it shows just what a police state Amerikkka has become. Ever heard the Megadeth song called "Sweating Bullets" that says "I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet"? As it is those F.B.I. Nazis can demand to see records of what books anyone checks out from libraries and can go into ANY business and demand all their financial records, then "legally" make it so they can't ever tell anyone they were approached about it. This is ridiculous. May as well take all the stars off the flag and replace them with fifty little white swastikas.
He trained in the camps, had intentions of fighting a jihad. It's good we got him.
I don't need to know the details about dirty bombs and such. He is a traitor, and had intentions of killing us or our allies.
Iggy, it's not a crime under US law to train in a jihad camp in another country. That does not make him a traitor as defined in law. And, as usual, you have missed the point; he isn't charged with any conspiracy to commit any crime governed by US law. He is charged with conspiring to commit crimes against other countries or their citizens.
My law is a little rusty, but I'm having a big problem understanding how this can be. If a US citizen commits a crime in another country, the US cannot charge or prosecute him for that crime in the US. By extension, conspiracy to commit a crime in another country would not be a violation of any US laws. Unless the law has changed that dramatically since I went to school, which I doubt.
It appears they have simply charged the man with anything to avoid a supreme court precedence; a charge that will be dismissed but cause the challenge process to begin anew. A method to circumvent the law.
DF - that song rules, and Dave Mustaine looked creepy in that vid.
It is a good song. Mustaine did look kinda creepy, didn't he?
To Seal:
That's exactly what it is, they're just making it up as they go along. And meanwhile as the process starts over from the beginning, Padilla rots away in some dungeon, and with him, America's concept of the rule of law.
Where can you find 291 million braindead murdering fucking cunts?
I know this will be a toughie for most of you so here's a clue:
SAVE THE PLANET: KILL AN AMERICAN.
Is that any clearerer?
Fuck you, anonymous pussy. Care to try again?
No need to be harsh, there, Anonymous.
Your strategy may not be helpful unless it is highly selective.
Not all of those in the US (assuming that's what you mean by "Americans", which, by the way, is a continent, not a country) are Christo-fascists, its just a few old white dying men.
Besides, the planet will save itself.
--Anad
I thought America only has about 275 or 280 million people anyway. Has the population increased that much since the last time I heard?
Actually "America" is TWO continents, Anonymous 8:24, last I heard. It is North America and South America, and the U.S. [minus Hawaii] is located on the former of the two. Thankfully America doesn't own the whole of the two continents, though it frequently tries to act like it does. But generally when someone says "America" for brevity I think they mean the U.S., as if I was to call a Brazilian or an Argentine or a Venezuelan an American they'd probably punch me in the face and understandably so.
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