Monday, November 28, 2005
Justice Is Blind, Particularly For Jack Idema ...
While we're hearing wails about treatment of prisoners at Gitmo, and delerious happiness at Padilla being charges ... let's take a moment to think about how Jack Idema has been treated:
From KenderMusings, title link, StetsonTip Cao, links available at Kender's blog: Idema was tortured with boiling water, starvation, threats of death, and assault with various implements (such as wire cables and rubber whips), resulting in broken ribs, a separated sternum, torn rotator cuffs, hemorrhaged eyes, multiple concussions, lacerations, contusions, and bruises. Although the U.S. Embassy later had medical reports indicating the extent of the torture, Sandra Ingram, Assistant U.S. Consul DOS Kabul, ordered the reports rewritten to tone down the extent of the injuries.And let's not forget how they were treated at Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving for Jack Idema, Captain Bennett, Lt Banderas, and Journalist Carabello went like this:
Ten US Special Operations Soldiers were threatened by the Dept of State with Article 15’s (low level court martials) if they brought Turkey to Pulacharke Prison on Thanksgiving.If that's not enough, US Consul Addie Harchick visted them, refused them mail, and then tried to drive away with the water the Marines sent them, until an Afghan General had his bodyguards block the Embassy car and force them to deliver the water. One of the State Dept Security officers told the story at bar last night, and it made the boys sitting there listening f***ing sick. We treated Nazi POWs better than this
Denying them bottled water would ensure that they would become sick, because Americans have no resistance to the organisms commonly found in Afgani water.
The more you find out about this story, the more mind-numbing it becomes.
Remember, Idema was found innocent by an Afganistan court, but is still being held prisoner through mechinations of the US State Department.
And, he's still there.
It's becoming obvious to me that the US state department is using Idema as a sort of example to the rest of the world, how the US treats folks who perpetuate torture. Problem is ... there's no real evidence that Idema did torture anyone, and as a matter of fact, there is absolutely clear evidence that he did not.
How about letting Idema be an example of how phoney charges are refuted ... ooops, guess real justice doesn't fit in with the "progressive" agenda ...
Click to Caos blog for updated information.
Will stay tuned. ¶ 6:30 AM
From KenderMusings, title link, StetsonTip Cao, links available at Kender's blog: Idema was tortured with boiling water, starvation, threats of death, and assault with various implements (such as wire cables and rubber whips), resulting in broken ribs, a separated sternum, torn rotator cuffs, hemorrhaged eyes, multiple concussions, lacerations, contusions, and bruises. Although the U.S. Embassy later had medical reports indicating the extent of the torture, Sandra Ingram, Assistant U.S. Consul DOS Kabul, ordered the reports rewritten to tone down the extent of the injuries.And let's not forget how they were treated at Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving for Jack Idema, Captain Bennett, Lt Banderas, and Journalist Carabello went like this:
Ten US Special Operations Soldiers were threatened by the Dept of State with Article 15’s (low level court martials) if they brought Turkey to Pulacharke Prison on Thanksgiving.If that's not enough, US Consul Addie Harchick visted them, refused them mail, and then tried to drive away with the water the Marines sent them, until an Afghan General had his bodyguards block the Embassy car and force them to deliver the water. One of the State Dept Security officers told the story at bar last night, and it made the boys sitting there listening f***ing sick. We treated Nazi POWs better than this
Denying them bottled water would ensure that they would become sick, because Americans have no resistance to the organisms commonly found in Afgani water.
The more you find out about this story, the more mind-numbing it becomes.
Remember, Idema was found innocent by an Afganistan court, but is still being held prisoner through mechinations of the US State Department.
And, he's still there.
It's becoming obvious to me that the US state department is using Idema as a sort of example to the rest of the world, how the US treats folks who perpetuate torture. Problem is ... there's no real evidence that Idema did torture anyone, and as a matter of fact, there is absolutely clear evidence that he did not.
How about letting Idema be an example of how phoney charges are refuted ... ooops, guess real justice doesn't fit in with the "progressive" agenda ...
Click to Caos blog for updated information.
Will stay tuned. ¶ 6:30 AM
