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The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution is the strongest statement therein that powers not expressly granted the State are retained as rights of the People. The State has misconstrued, misrepresented, ignored, and denied the People's rights by elimination of protections reserved alone to them, not recognized by the Supreme Court, the Legislative, and worst the Executive Branch in the illegitimate exercise of draconian powers which unlawfully disparage the inalienable rights of the People.
23 January 2015
Petition Condemns Rand Paul Who Slams Majority Of Social Security Disabled As "Gaming The System" Repeats Attack That All With Anxiety Disorders And Back Disabilities Be Denied Benefits As Former Physician And Kentucky Junior Senator Hardcore Tea Partier Paul Reportedly Courts Republican Right Wingers In New Hampshire Ugly Talk Kicking Off Likely 2016 Presidential Run
22 January 2015
Radar-R Detectors Rampant "Secret" Law Enforcement Likely Misuse Unconstitutional Since 2012 To See Through Walls Into Private Homes Illegal Warrantless Invasion Of Privacy Detects Humans And Movement - Further Concern Is Criminals "Casing" Homes Watching Occupants' "Every Breath"
Thursday, 22 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Law enforcement agencies secretly starting in 2012 with federal agencies such as the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service at the vanguard and since having spread like an aggressive malicious cancer (to already dangerously "militarized" through the deranged DOD "1033 program" giveaway bonanza of everything from machine guns to tanks given to untrained police even college campus police departments all over the country) the Ninth Amendment has discovered that these past three years among other widespread unconstitutional actions they further are engaging in Orwellian activities secretly violating the privacy of and using exterior wall-held radar to see into Americans' homes with a $6,000 device (likely bought with unconstitutional "forfeitures" of frequently uncharged and/or innocent citizens' cash and property which DOJ has stopped allowing under federal law with over $2 billion worth of booty already taken by feds and police but state and local police still continue often after taking pricey "seminars" reportedly widely given by the company Desert Snow where former law enforcement officers apparently share special techniques not taught at the police academy on how better to to seize as much cash and easily fenced items as possible).
The completely invasive radar device has for more than two years often been used by unchecked and unmonitored police placing the largely secretly used device against an exterior wall to detect the presence of every living person just by their breathing as well as track their every movement and location for a distance of greater than fifty feet within their home, business, office or wherever. Doubtless if there were technology available to such police in the same spirit of unchecked lawlessness they might prefer invading everyone's homes by watching them through their television sets (if not by their computer cameras which incidentally according to the New York Times technology writer should be kept covered with tape when not intentionally in operation by the computer user not because of law enforcement specifically but for protection from any hacker).
The completely invasive radar device has for more than two years often been used by unchecked and unmonitored police placing the largely secretly used device against an exterior wall to detect the presence of every living person just by their breathing as well as track their every movement and location for a distance of greater than fifty feet within their home, business, office or wherever. Doubtless if there were technology available to such police in the same spirit of unchecked lawlessness they might prefer invading everyone's homes by watching them through their television sets (if not by their computer cameras which incidentally according to the New York Times technology writer should be kept covered with tape when not intentionally in operation by the computer user not because of law enforcement specifically but for protection from any hacker).
In the opinion of the Ninth Amendment editorial board this widespread uncontrolled distribution of a device with such uses so obviously threatening including to core constitutional rights against warrantless searches under the Fourth Amendment and the right to privacy especially in one's home and personal spaces (although the maker casts the device largely as a tool for search and rescue and safety operations) not only theoretically but as a known fact as to the indiscriminate sale of these these "Radar-R" detectors from L-3 Communications - CyTerra Corporation is irresponsible and one would think might expose any entity in the supply chain to potential liability.
Our strictly lay view is that the known and now widely reported fact (such as in the USA Today article linked to below) of their widespread unlawful use shows a reckless disregard along the supply chain for the consequences of the uncontrolled availability of the devices demonstrated to have been used largely secretly doubtless because of well-founded concerns about the unconstitutionality of their use by law enforcement agencies intentionally by not informing those they legally should nor seeking legal opinions as to the need for probable cause, search warrants and so on with the devices serving as a virtual invitation to violate the Fourth Amendment and right to privacy among other things.
It reasonably could be expected as well that all manner of criminals from more "sophisticated" types such as burglars preying on the wealthier casing empty homes to other very dangerous criminals willing to break and enter an occupied dwelling such as not only a burglar but a stalker, sex offender or others with violent intentions now are virtually invited to violate the most sacred sanctity of one's home with a device that can either identify an unoccupied dwelling or track the occupants of one that is occupied.
This device in the wrong hands poses a quite plausible threat to that most strongly felt of last American strongholds that "One's Home is One's Castle" where any man and/or woman has every right and reason to feel secure in their dwelling for the sake of themselves, their family and loved ones without the added concern about a potentially dangerous individual tracking them with exterior wall contact radar as if being right in their homes which should that actually occur by long tradition justifies the strongest of responses by the homeowner or occupants under invasion or threat of severe bodily harm or death in the sanctity of their most private of places because such an intrusion clearly can lead to the most fearful and dangerous of circumstances and events. (Since the actions one legally may take vary greatly from state to state for home defense from similar acts of defense in some states being perfectly legal while in other states potentially being considered murder by the home occupant readers absolutely must consult a properly licensed attorney on this matter for legal advice which this does not purport to be and most definitely is not as the Ninth Amendment cannot and does not provide any legal advice whatsoever at all.)
Our strictly lay view is that the known and now widely reported fact (such as in the USA Today article linked to below) of their widespread unlawful use shows a reckless disregard along the supply chain for the consequences of the uncontrolled availability of the devices demonstrated to have been used largely secretly doubtless because of well-founded concerns about the unconstitutionality of their use by law enforcement agencies intentionally by not informing those they legally should nor seeking legal opinions as to the need for probable cause, search warrants and so on with the devices serving as a virtual invitation to violate the Fourth Amendment and right to privacy among other things.
It reasonably could be expected as well that all manner of criminals from more "sophisticated" types such as burglars preying on the wealthier casing empty homes to other very dangerous criminals willing to break and enter an occupied dwelling such as not only a burglar but a stalker, sex offender or others with violent intentions now are virtually invited to violate the most sacred sanctity of one's home with a device that can either identify an unoccupied dwelling or track the occupants of one that is occupied.
This device in the wrong hands poses a quite plausible threat to that most strongly felt of last American strongholds that "One's Home is One's Castle" where any man and/or woman has every right and reason to feel secure in their dwelling for the sake of themselves, their family and loved ones without the added concern about a potentially dangerous individual tracking them with exterior wall contact radar as if being right in their homes which should that actually occur by long tradition justifies the strongest of responses by the homeowner or occupants under invasion or threat of severe bodily harm or death in the sanctity of their most private of places because such an intrusion clearly can lead to the most fearful and dangerous of circumstances and events. (Since the actions one legally may take vary greatly from state to state for home defense from similar acts of defense in some states being perfectly legal while in other states potentially being considered murder by the home occupant readers absolutely must consult a properly licensed attorney on this matter for legal advice which this does not purport to be and most definitely is not as the Ninth Amendment cannot and does not provide any legal advice whatsoever at all.)
This post is not meant by any means to be an advertisement nor encouragement by informing anyone not previously aware of this potentially so widely illegally used device by sneaks, snoops, rogue cops and criminals so that they might seek to use these devices but to spread awareness of their existence to a greater audience that they may be aware of them. Even as quoted from a federal appeals court below many may wish them more widely controlled and monitored if they share the view that they likely are too often used for unconstitutional and criminal purposes.
Some may believe as there are very few others who could have a legitimate need or use to acquire such a device to "see" into people's homes, businesses, offices or whatever by coming within the curtilage of a dwelling or other personal private indoor place and press the device against an exterior wall to use radar to check for the presence of occupants and giving those just pressing this device against exterior walls the ability to track one's every breath and movement inside one's own home, business or wherever claimed by the maker of the device to extend to a tracking distance of more than fifty feet inside the structure.
Some may believe as there are very few others who could have a legitimate need or use to acquire such a device to "see" into people's homes, businesses, offices or whatever by coming within the curtilage of a dwelling or other personal private indoor place and press the device against an exterior wall to use radar to check for the presence of occupants and giving those just pressing this device against exterior walls the ability to track one's every breath and movement inside one's own home, business or wherever claimed by the maker of the device to extend to a tracking distance of more than fifty feet inside the structure.
Nevertheless the Ninth Amendment editorial board does recognize that such a device doubtless does have some legitimate uses in some instances but only if in lawful hands properly authorized with a warrant or some very exigent circumstances as clearly delineated by official legal opinions IN ADVANCE as well as being regulated in its possession and use even possibly to the point of being licensed given already such clear evidence of its apparently nationwide illegal unconstitutional use for three years now by rogue law enforcement from the federal to the local level which until this time was not known to the Ninth Amendment nor is it known at this time what may be the extent of criminal use of the device which inevitably can be expected to find its way into the wrong hands
Moreover when it is misused those wronged whether by supposed "law enforcement" as well as criminals in our lay opinion where possible might consult their properly licensed attorney about the possibility of initiating legal demands and/or actions against those in the supply chain of such devices as well as in the case of law enforcement unlawful use the community governments responsible legally for their conduct. These federal and local law enforcement agencies according to the USA Today article linked to below largely have secretly used these devices to see people through their walls into their homes since at least 2012. USA Today notes that the U.S. Supreme Court has previously imposed warrant requirements on law enforcement dogs sniffing around houses, law enforcement using thermal imaging to see into homes, and even earlier expressed significant concerns about the warrantless use of this radar device to see into homes.
The Ninth Amendment brings this to the attention of readers for their information and out of concern that just as with police use of wiretaps, searches of cars, dwellings and so on that this must be a public issue specifically with clear legal guidance. Somehow it seems however that this issue has gone "under the radar" (bad pun) because law enforcement has up until now apparently tried its best to keep its use "secret" as USA Today euphemistically reports or probably more accurately law enforcement aware of likely legal "impediments" has deceived prosecutors, courts and others who would demand that the use of such devices to the extent permitted must be consistent with legal requirements to be determined.
This would seem to be particularly true since the Supreme Court already specifically has held (the Ninth Amendment in its lay opinion believes) that police generally cannot tap corded phone lines without a warrant, search dwellings generally without a warrant, nor creep around the curtilage (immediate privately owned area) of one's dwelling nor peer into the windows nor of course hang from the eaves and listen (eavesdropping). Persons needing legal advice on any of these issues must consult a properly licensed attorney as the Ninth Amendment cannot and does not purport to nor provide any legal advice whatsoever. Local ACLU chapters with "answer lines" as well as NOLO website information and books often can be a good source of some legal information.
The Ninth Amendment brings this to the attention of readers for their information and out of concern that just as with police use of wiretaps, searches of cars, dwellings and so on that this must be a public issue specifically with clear legal guidance. Somehow it seems however that this issue has gone "under the radar" (bad pun) because law enforcement has up until now apparently tried its best to keep its use "secret" as USA Today euphemistically reports or probably more accurately law enforcement aware of likely legal "impediments" has deceived prosecutors, courts and others who would demand that the use of such devices to the extent permitted must be consistent with legal requirements to be determined.
This would seem to be particularly true since the Supreme Court already specifically has held (the Ninth Amendment in its lay opinion believes) that police generally cannot tap corded phone lines without a warrant, search dwellings generally without a warrant, nor creep around the curtilage (immediate privately owned area) of one's dwelling nor peer into the windows nor of course hang from the eaves and listen (eavesdropping). Persons needing legal advice on any of these issues must consult a properly licensed attorney as the Ninth Amendment cannot and does not purport to nor provide any legal advice whatsoever. Local ACLU chapters with "answer lines" as well as NOLO website information and books often can be a good source of some legal information.
The USA today article linked to below (with audio) does include the following concerns about the device expressed by one federal appeals court:
Agents' use of the radars was largely unknown until December, when a federal appeals court in Denver said officers had used one before they entered a house to arrest a man wanted for violating his parole. The judges expressed alarm that agents had used the new technology without a search warrant, warning that "the government's warrantless use of such a powerful tool to search inside homes poses grave Fourth Amendment questions."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/P22007615/
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20 January 2015
BREAKING NOTICE: President Barack Obama's Latest Message To You The Readers Of The Ninth Amendment On His State Of The Union Address To Congress, We The People Of The Greatest Nation On Earth And All The World
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artin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved (no claim to White House content)The 2014 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs Gtreeted By President In The White House Blue Room And Congratulated By The Ninth Amendment
Tuesday, 20 January 2015, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - The Ninth Amendment Congratulates The Best Basketball Team In The World. This post dedicated to Little L for her HST Seal Rock Inn research and to David Robinson MVP 1995 For Community And Championship Team Leadership Never To Be Forgotten.
President Obama Greets 2014 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs
President Barack Obama greets 2014 NBA Championship San Antonio Spurs players, coaches and leadership in the Blue Room prior to an event in the East Room, Jan. 12, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Sixth STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS By 44th President Of The United States Barack Obama Tonight At 9 P.M. EST Live On National Television As Obama Encourages All To Watch "Enhanced Version" With President Taking Questions After The Address And Tomorrow Details At www.whitehouse.gov
Tuesday, 20 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - 44th President Of The United States Barack Obama (POTUS) tonight at 9 p.m. delivers his 6th State Of The Union (SATU) Address live before Congress and the American people via national television and in a special recommended "enhanced version" followed by questions from Americans accessible through www.whitehouse.gov. The Obama White House which claims a commitment to being the most "transparent" Administration and White House in history at the www.whitehouse.gov web address accessible by all links provided on this page has broken with tradition and shared in advance many of the topics to be covered this evening by the President with daily casual talks by the President to viewers of the White House website as well as written page content from senior White House officials and videos showing the President's speeches and visits with Americans around the country. The President also daily reads ten of the public's thousands of letters, emails and social media messages to him and responds to them by video on the website.
President Obama up to the delivery of his State of the Union Address again at 9 p.m. tonight seeks to know via direct contact from the Nation via their visits to the site what issues all Americans are most concerned about hearing addressed from a current list of topics among those of the most interest to those who do respond. The White House website provides many ways to contact the White House from social media addresses on all top social media as well as phone numbers to the White House switchboard and the physical address for the White House along with directions for those who wish to write or send something (and directions what not to send) to the White House, the President and/or First Lady Michelle Obama.
The issues identified by the President to date include and many have videos of the President speaking about his support for net neutrality, the opportunity for communities including cities, towns, and rural areas to achieve and have equal affordable access to broadband speeds which in a few communities already have reached world class gigabit speeds, making community colleges free throughout the country, the 240,000 private sector jobs created in December 2014 alone, "charting a new course to Cuba", immigration issues, how well the Affordable Care Act is working signing up record numbers of Americans for affordable health insurance with premiums contrary the the expectations of some mostly going down and/or staying the same for the past 2-4 years after going up at staggering rates for many years earlier, as well as other topics identified at the website and mentioned in news items there or by the President.
The enhanced version of the POTUS (as he is known in some social media) of the SATU (likewise) will continue after the larger public address before Congress and the Nation in which the President will meet with the three creators of YouTube and answer questions from the public. This will also continue through the following day on Wednesday, 21 January 2014 during which the President will field more questions and members of the his Administration from a wide variety of areas will deliver updates as visitors can continue to contact the White House via social media and emails. The Ninth Amendment sincerely hopes that the President will field some questions on tough issues other than those mentioned above and many more core areas identified on the website for which the White House is now taking input on the public's interest.
The www.whitehouse.gov website provides a complete point of contact for the public to the White House on a daily (and archived) basis from which interested readers may also request daily emails featuring casual talks to site viewers by President Obama as well as the President's and Vice-President's schedule for the day, photo for the day, blogs by senior staff members, links to different videos of the President in a large variety of appearances giving speeches around the country, speaking with Americans and so on.
President Obama's stated reason for breaking with all tradition in disclosing and discussing in advance so many of the topics that he will be addressing in his State of the Union address is that in addition to the stated claim of more "transparency" in the Obama White House than any administration preceding it that the President feels pressed for time and energized to get as much done as possible in his two remaining years in office after having to spend so long cleaning up the wreckage of an American economy which he inherited in a deep economic recession which was the worst in American history since the Great Depression but now under the Obama Administration has become remarkably robust for greatly extended periods on nearly all fronts notably a two-thirds drop in the national deficit including soaring stock market prices, record employment rates and and plummeting gasoline prices for consumers who have seen just in the past year well over a dollar a gallon to a national average of a mere $2.00 a gallon the lowest price in six years.
The President says that he welcomes work with the Republican controlled Congress but if it does not want to do its job and merely focus on diversionary non-issues and giveaways to the ultra-rich then the President is eager to accomplish all he can in any case on his own with his executive authority of his and all the Nation's citizens' many honest priorities for the American people and the true future of this Country to secure and firmly establish its continuing world leadership role throughout the 21st Century and beyond. The Ninth Amendment remains most interested to see what issues the President truly is intending to and does in fact tackle. One more time then the best way to fully "experience" the President's "enhanced" State of the Union Address according to POTUS is via www.whitehouse.gov.
President Obama up to the delivery of his State of the Union Address again at 9 p.m. tonight seeks to know via direct contact from the Nation via their visits to the site what issues all Americans are most concerned about hearing addressed from a current list of topics among those of the most interest to those who do respond. The White House website provides many ways to contact the White House from social media addresses on all top social media as well as phone numbers to the White House switchboard and the physical address for the White House along with directions for those who wish to write or send something (and directions what not to send) to the White House, the President and/or First Lady Michelle Obama.
The issues identified by the President to date include and many have videos of the President speaking about his support for net neutrality, the opportunity for communities including cities, towns, and rural areas to achieve and have equal affordable access to broadband speeds which in a few communities already have reached world class gigabit speeds, making community colleges free throughout the country, the 240,000 private sector jobs created in December 2014 alone, "charting a new course to Cuba", immigration issues, how well the Affordable Care Act is working signing up record numbers of Americans for affordable health insurance with premiums contrary the the expectations of some mostly going down and/or staying the same for the past 2-4 years after going up at staggering rates for many years earlier, as well as other topics identified at the website and mentioned in news items there or by the President.
The enhanced version of the POTUS (as he is known in some social media) of the SATU (likewise) will continue after the larger public address before Congress and the Nation in which the President will meet with the three creators of YouTube and answer questions from the public. This will also continue through the following day on Wednesday, 21 January 2014 during which the President will field more questions and members of the his Administration from a wide variety of areas will deliver updates as visitors can continue to contact the White House via social media and emails. The Ninth Amendment sincerely hopes that the President will field some questions on tough issues other than those mentioned above and many more core areas identified on the website for which the White House is now taking input on the public's interest.
The www.whitehouse.gov website provides a complete point of contact for the public to the White House on a daily (and archived) basis from which interested readers may also request daily emails featuring casual talks to site viewers by President Obama as well as the President's and Vice-President's schedule for the day, photo for the day, blogs by senior staff members, links to different videos of the President in a large variety of appearances giving speeches around the country, speaking with Americans and so on.
President Obama's stated reason for breaking with all tradition in disclosing and discussing in advance so many of the topics that he will be addressing in his State of the Union address is that in addition to the stated claim of more "transparency" in the Obama White House than any administration preceding it that the President feels pressed for time and energized to get as much done as possible in his two remaining years in office after having to spend so long cleaning up the wreckage of an American economy which he inherited in a deep economic recession which was the worst in American history since the Great Depression but now under the Obama Administration has become remarkably robust for greatly extended periods on nearly all fronts notably a two-thirds drop in the national deficit including soaring stock market prices, record employment rates and and plummeting gasoline prices for consumers who have seen just in the past year well over a dollar a gallon to a national average of a mere $2.00 a gallon the lowest price in six years.
The President says that he welcomes work with the Republican controlled Congress but if it does not want to do its job and merely focus on diversionary non-issues and giveaways to the ultra-rich then the President is eager to accomplish all he can in any case on his own with his executive authority of his and all the Nation's citizens' many honest priorities for the American people and the true future of this Country to secure and firmly establish its continuing world leadership role throughout the 21st Century and beyond. The Ninth Amendment remains most interested to see what issues the President truly is intending to and does in fact tackle. One more time then the best way to fully "experience" the President's "enhanced" State of the Union Address according to POTUS is via www.whitehouse.gov.
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19 January 2015
UPDATED: American Torturers Can Be Prosecuted Abroad Including By International Criminal Court Analysts Agree While DOJ Refuses To Prosecute
19 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In Memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. on this day devoted to his remembrance. This post has been substantially updated with the following:
16 May 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - [ REPUBLICATION UPDATE] Not-really-elected Bush-Cheney administration and top C.I..A.officials along with C.I.A. torturers exposed in the U.S. Senate Torture Report in December 2014 committing war crimes against humanity have faced no known domestic prosecutions whatsoever for these actions as of 16 May 2015 a full five months after the Senate Torture Report summary's release.
This absolute lack of criminal prosecution is consistent with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) legally, morally and ethically untenable stated position (not legally binding) that it will not prosecute American torturers at its discretion based on what are known to be totally bogus crank legal justifications with DOJ therefore selectively enforcing U.S. laws even while intentionally ignoring what may well include grave capital offenses subject to no statute of limitations. Readers interested in more information on this can go to the the first link below to an article from earlier this year.
Analysts however remain in agreement that even given and regardless of the Barack Obama administration's expressed unwillingness to enforce enormously significant U.S. laws against heinous crimes against humanity including those applicable under international signatory treaties that the American torturers known at the least directly to encompass Bush-Cheney administration and then top CIA officials as well as those under their command and responsibility directly committing torturous war crimes against humanity all for the remainder of their lives still also can be prosecuted in various international forums including but not limited to the International Criminal Court. Readers interested in more information on this can go to the second link below to another article from the New York Times published earlier this year.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/10/1350790/-Justice-Department-says-it-still-won-t-pursue-criminal-charges-over-American-torture-program#
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/us/politics/americans-involved-in-torture-can-be-prosecuted-abroad-analysts-say.html&assetType=nyt_now?gwh=8F182291CC1EDECC273E455BF8F2498F&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now
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16 May 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - [ REPUBLICATION UPDATE] Not-really-elected Bush-Cheney administration and top C.I..A.officials along with C.I.A. torturers exposed in the U.S. Senate Torture Report in December 2014 committing war crimes against humanity have faced no known domestic prosecutions whatsoever for these actions as of 16 May 2015 a full five months after the Senate Torture Report summary's release.
This absolute lack of criminal prosecution is consistent with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) legally, morally and ethically untenable stated position (not legally binding) that it will not prosecute American torturers at its discretion based on what are known to be totally bogus crank legal justifications with DOJ therefore selectively enforcing U.S. laws even while intentionally ignoring what may well include grave capital offenses subject to no statute of limitations. Readers interested in more information on this can go to the the first link below to an article from earlier this year.
Analysts however remain in agreement that even given and regardless of the Barack Obama administration's expressed unwillingness to enforce enormously significant U.S. laws against heinous crimes against humanity including those applicable under international signatory treaties that the American torturers known at the least directly to encompass Bush-Cheney administration and then top CIA officials as well as those under their command and responsibility directly committing torturous war crimes against humanity all for the remainder of their lives still also can be prosecuted in various international forums including but not limited to the International Criminal Court. Readers interested in more information on this can go to the second link below to another article from the New York Times published earlier this year.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/10/1350790/-Justice-Department-says-it-still-won-t-pursue-criminal-charges-over-American-torture-program#
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/us/politics/americans-involved-in-torture-can-be-prosecuted-abroad-analysts-say.html&assetType=nyt_now?gwh=8F182291CC1EDECC273E455BF8F2498F&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now
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George Bush (43), Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld And Their Hack Lawyers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee And John Yoo Found Guilty Of War Crimes By Malaysian International War Crimes Tribunal
Monday, 19 January 2015, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - A Malaysian International War Crimes Tribunal comprised of a five senior judge panel (the "Tribunal") consistent with the Nuremberg Charter which reportedly scrupulously adhered to the regulations of the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts in 2012 tried in abstenia not-really-elected "President" George W. Bush, Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld (former Nixon appointee, anti-FOIA fanatic, recruiter of Cheney as federal official, bribed by G.D. Searle to get aspartame approved despite FDA finding unacceptable risk of brain cancer, resigned in disgrace in 2006 after engineering illegal U.S. failed Afghanistan and Iraq quagmires, wrote autobiography detailing steps guaranteed to get one into hell) as well as their hack lawyers Alberto Gonzales (Bush personal lawyer who wrote legal opinion okaying obviously unconstitutional NSA "Operation PRISM" dragnet domestic spying of all U.S. citizens only copy of which then was kept in his office safe so no one could see his hack "legal analysis"), David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo all of whom the Tribunal found guilty as war criminals for torture and inhumane, cruel and degrading treatment.
According to the below linked Foreign Policy Journal (the "Journal") article:
According to the below linked Foreign Policy Journal (the "Journal") article:
The prosecution case rested on proving how the decision-makers at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and became an accepted norm.
According to the prosecution, the testimony of all the witnesses exposed a sustained perpetration of brutal, barbaric, cruel and dehumanising course of conduct against them.
These acts of crimes were applied cumulatively to inflict the worst possible pain and suffering, said lawyers.The prosecution case rested on proving how the decision-makers at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and became an accepted norm.
The president of the tribunal Tan Sri Dato Lamin bin Haji Mohd Yunus Lamin, found that the prosecution had established beyond a “reasonable doubt that the accused persons, former President George Bush and his co-conspirators engaged in a web of instructions, memos, directives, legal advice and action that established a common plan and purpose, joint enterprise and/or conspiracy to commit the crimes of Torture and War Crimes, including and not limited to a common plan and purpose to commit the following crimes in relation to the “War on Terror” and the wars launched by the U.S. and others in Afghanistan and Iraq.”The Journal reported that testimony included that of Iraqi and British citizens from whom:
The court heard how
- Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers.
- Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall.
- Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement.
The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.
- Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter.
Finally the Journal reported that upon the Tribunal's handing down of a unanimous guilty verdict finding Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzaler, Addington, Haynes, Bybee and Yoo to be war criminals the Tribunal stated that although it had no custodial authority of the war criminals that:
The Ninth Amendment at this time does not yet have information what actions if any the International Criminal Court as well as the United Nations and the Security Council may have initiated or plan against convicted war criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Addington, Haynes, Bybee and Yoo or "other commanders and CIA officials" not charged here but identified by the Tribunal as having been engaged in the same torture and war crimes conspiracy.
Although it is evident that to date no torture and war crimes or other criminal actions have yet been referred by the Obama White House to the Department of Justice ("DOJ") nor any international tribunal for prosecution DOJ previously having defended itself by saying that the CIA sought a legal opinion as to its commission of acts of torture and detainment and confinement which the DOJ dutifully cleared by "legal analysis" but since has claimed the CIA lied to DOJ about the extent of its actions in seeking the opinion. Similarly the Bush White House which as the head of the executive branch was responsible for all actions of the CIA which is an executive branch agency claimed that the CIA lied to it about the extent of its commission of war crimes and torture.
CIA officials claim that although the CIA did not mismanage its war crimes and torture program it was unaware of the extent of the activities of its operatives and contractors. One unidentified CIA employee however was sent home early after he was found to have "anger management and control issues" after he threatened a "detainee" with a pistol and electric drill and forced the "detainee" to play Russian Roulette with him although the employee subsequently faced no punishment or discipline from the CIA.
The Senate Select Committee On Intelligence (SSCI) Bush CIA Torture Report released a 524 page redacted executive summary of the otherwise classified 6,000 page Torture Report which concludes that CIA officials did and have continued to lie repeatedly to the United States Congress about its actions. The former chair of the SSCI Senator Dianne Feinstein in an extraordinary forty-five (45) minute speech on the Senate floor detailed how the CIA and delayed and obstructed the SSCI from fulfilling its oversight duties of the CIA.
This included the CIA referring apparently bogus charges with DOJ against Senate staffers of the SSCI from somehow hacking into CIA computers although the CIA computers were completely segregated including at a different physical location from those used by the staffers. The SSCI concluded that this most likely was an attempt by the CIA to "intimidate" SSCI staffers while actually it was determined and later admitted by the CIA that it at this time was hacking into Senate computers allegedly to conduct an investigation of its own legislative branch overseers.
The main impetus for this more recent flurry of activities by the CIA apparently was its alarm over having released to the SSCI staffers probably either by mistake or a whistleblower a document come to be known as the "Panetta Report" so-called because it was prepared under the direction of former CIA Director Leon Panetta and which apparently definitively proves that the CIA not only misled Congress but actually knew it was doing so and therefore CIA officials were in fact lying under oath to Congress. Members of the SSCI have reviewed the Panetta report and have since not released it but kept it secured in a safe in a Senate office building.
The CIA has continued to complain that the report was stolen by SSCI staffers. The CIA also has attempted to assert numerous non-existent privileges as to the "Panetta Report" and other documents apparently accidentally released relating to the allegedly partially "draft" status of the "Panetta Report" as well as other privileges familiar to federal prosecutors such as ones apparently derived from the "deliberative process" privilege and others seemingly akin to the "work product" or "attorney-client" privilege none of which privileges Senator Feinstein pointed out are recognized by the Senate.
What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by the Tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
The Tribunal also recommends to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission that the names of all the 8 convicted persons be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and be publicised accordingly.The Journal reported that there may be some countries that these convicted war criminals have avoided and others that may have interfered with their prosecution despite the "duty" of all countries to prosecute convicted war criminals under the doctrine of "universal jurisdiction" established with the conviction of fellow war criminal former Chilean dictator Augustine Pinochet who was arrested in Britain and turned over to Spain for prosecution for his commission of war crimes.
The Ninth Amendment at this time does not yet have information what actions if any the International Criminal Court as well as the United Nations and the Security Council may have initiated or plan against convicted war criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Addington, Haynes, Bybee and Yoo or "other commanders and CIA officials" not charged here but identified by the Tribunal as having been engaged in the same torture and war crimes conspiracy.
Although it is evident that to date no torture and war crimes or other criminal actions have yet been referred by the Obama White House to the Department of Justice ("DOJ") nor any international tribunal for prosecution DOJ previously having defended itself by saying that the CIA sought a legal opinion as to its commission of acts of torture and detainment and confinement which the DOJ dutifully cleared by "legal analysis" but since has claimed the CIA lied to DOJ about the extent of its actions in seeking the opinion. Similarly the Bush White House which as the head of the executive branch was responsible for all actions of the CIA which is an executive branch agency claimed that the CIA lied to it about the extent of its commission of war crimes and torture.
CIA officials claim that although the CIA did not mismanage its war crimes and torture program it was unaware of the extent of the activities of its operatives and contractors. One unidentified CIA employee however was sent home early after he was found to have "anger management and control issues" after he threatened a "detainee" with a pistol and electric drill and forced the "detainee" to play Russian Roulette with him although the employee subsequently faced no punishment or discipline from the CIA.
The Senate Select Committee On Intelligence (SSCI) Bush CIA Torture Report released a 524 page redacted executive summary of the otherwise classified 6,000 page Torture Report which concludes that CIA officials did and have continued to lie repeatedly to the United States Congress about its actions. The former chair of the SSCI Senator Dianne Feinstein in an extraordinary forty-five (45) minute speech on the Senate floor detailed how the CIA and delayed and obstructed the SSCI from fulfilling its oversight duties of the CIA.
This included the CIA referring apparently bogus charges with DOJ against Senate staffers of the SSCI from somehow hacking into CIA computers although the CIA computers were completely segregated including at a different physical location from those used by the staffers. The SSCI concluded that this most likely was an attempt by the CIA to "intimidate" SSCI staffers while actually it was determined and later admitted by the CIA that it at this time was hacking into Senate computers allegedly to conduct an investigation of its own legislative branch overseers.
The main impetus for this more recent flurry of activities by the CIA apparently was its alarm over having released to the SSCI staffers probably either by mistake or a whistleblower a document come to be known as the "Panetta Report" so-called because it was prepared under the direction of former CIA Director Leon Panetta and which apparently definitively proves that the CIA not only misled Congress but actually knew it was doing so and therefore CIA officials were in fact lying under oath to Congress. Members of the SSCI have reviewed the Panetta report and have since not released it but kept it secured in a safe in a Senate office building.
The CIA has continued to complain that the report was stolen by SSCI staffers. The CIA also has attempted to assert numerous non-existent privileges as to the "Panetta Report" and other documents apparently accidentally released relating to the allegedly partially "draft" status of the "Panetta Report" as well as other privileges familiar to federal prosecutors such as ones apparently derived from the "deliberative process" privilege and others seemingly akin to the "work product" or "attorney-client" privilege none of which privileges Senator Feinstein pointed out are recognized by the Senate.
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/
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Copyright 2005 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
18 January 2015
FREE EVENT: CIA v. CIA (SPY V. SPY) ? Federal Trial In Alexandria, Virginia Open Court Regarding Disclosure Of Information On Deranged CIA "Operation Merlin" Plot To Plant Flawed Nuclear Weapons Plans With Iran Via Russian Makes "Argo" Look Like A Reasonable Idea Plenty Of Free Seats Available
Sunday, 18 January 2015, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - A federal jury trial regarding the above at the Federal District Court at 401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, Virginia which commenced last Tuesday, 13 January 2015 and is expected to last another three weeks featuring upcoming witnesses including Stanford University and Hoover Institution scholar and allegedly reformed torture enthusiast Condoleeza Rice is expected to have plenty of free seats for the public and press who may wish to drop by after visiting 619 S. Lee Street in "Old Town" about which trial interested readers may find more information at the below link.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/january/14/cia-on-trial-in-virginia-for-planting-nuke-evidence-in-iran/
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17 January 2015
French Consider New Terrorist Laws But "Ridicule" USA Patriot Act Idea N.Y. Times Reports As French Grapple With Threat Of New Laws To Civil Liberties
Saturday, 17 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the wake of the horrific terrorist slaughters at the Charlie Hebedo satirical newspaper and the Hyper Casher market the French who reportedly have terrorist laws and enforcement that largely have been considered "robust" and met with the approval of U.S. officials are considering what further measures France should take in the fight against terrorism while balancing concerns about civil liberties of French citizens. Nevertheless measures roughly equivalent to the Patriot Act have long been seen by many in France as embodying United States government encroachments on individual rights and civil liberties particularly including domestic surveillance of citizens that cannot be justified by any terrorist threat to date. The consideration of the enactment of laws in France similar to the Patriot Act even in the wake of current events are "ridiculed" by the French as detailed in the New York Times article linked to below. The following Ninth Amendment comment on that article as of this time is pending approval and it is not known whether it will be published in today's New York Times digital edition:
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The warning voiced by the former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin against the French adoption of "exceptional" measures was a most incisive concise statement of the grave dangers posed by the Patriot Act from the time of its adoption since which it has played out in more and more horrific domestic realities which admonition he reportedly wrote in Le Monde that “[t]he spiral of suspicion created in the United States by the Patriot Act and the enduring legitimization of torture or illegal detention has today caused that country to lose its moral compass.” The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com consistently has warned that that "moral compass" is embodied in the United States Constitution from which our great Nation incrementally has stayed most dangerously further and further. The time for a renewal of a Constitutional faith and concomitant action consistent with that faith based on an honest interpretation of its text and the enduring principles embodied in the U.S. Constitution are our light and our hope for ourselves and our future generations as they have been for nearly two and a half centuries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/europe/patriot-act-idea-rises-in-france-and-is-ridiculed.html?ref=todayspaper
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/europe/patriot-act-idea-rises-in-france-and-is-ridiculed.html?ref=todayspaper
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