Thursday, August 16, 2007

GOVERNMENT TERROR CONVICTION IS TROUBLING

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

Nothing could be far from the truth in the conviction of Jose Padilla–a U.S. born citizen.

The government sought to paint him as a “star recruit” in Al-Qaeda’s drive to build a secret terror cell within the United States and detonate a “radiological” dirty bomb–all at the same time.

But where was the proof of such convictions?

Was Padilla actually the terrorist they painted him to be? And why did they hide him away for years without ever trying him in the first place? And was this man grossly tortured into making a false confession?

People, the proof is in the pudding: The government does not want to appear soft on terrorism!

Much like the fake terror plots, our own government is actively engaged in the worse crime imaginable right under our very noses…

Convicting innocent people for crimes that don’t exist!

Who can say exactly what Jose did in the Middle East. Perhaps he was studying and helping with humanitarian relief efforts as he claimed. But the government never saw that to be the truth.

Or wanted it to.

Instead, they fabricated false claims that Jose was a true terrorist, was going to blow up apartments with natural gas and then detonate a “dirty bomb” somewhere in the United States.

They held him against his will, tortured him so bad that he became mentally deficient to the eyes of those whom knew him personally, and to make things worse?

He was an American citizen detained illegally on his own country’s soil–by his own country’s government!

How much is one man’s life worth in order to keep the Bush administration's little-held secret of torture and illegal detention without trial, evidence, or charge–going?

Is this what America stands for?

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

HOW HARD IS IT TO COMPLY WITH CONGRESS ANYWAY?

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

We’ve seen it many times over the past six years since Bush entered office: Congress demanding that the White House and other elements of our own government turn over material which is instrumental in one common aspect of our democracy: Checks and balances.

And the White House and those various elements are saying: “We have executive privilege, and that supersedes law and the Constitution.”

Y’know…

Nixon tried the same thing in the 70s–in face of Watergate. It took the ruling of the Supreme Court to say that no sitting President was above the law, and Congress had every constitutional right to have access to the Watergate files.

But Bush is counting on this. In his defense, he’s stacked court justices that would see him as having no fault of his own–and thus would be able to get away with not turning over documents vital to Congress’s ongoing investigations on a number of fronts.

However, the idea behind not implicating a sitting President (especially a Republican one), is disastrous for the party whom put them there.

Hence the stonewalling and excuses by government officials.

The sad truth is, is that it took an act of the people to change course with both Congress and the government.

But Bush and those under him still believe that they have unchecked powers, unchecked flexibility in their roles as representatives of these United States.

Which is why they have been fighting as long as they have.

Once a group has unlimited power, it becomes very difficult to restrain them, or at the very least–reign them in.

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com

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