Secret Trials
Mon Feb 21 2005 21:11 MST #A citizen held 20 months with no charges filed. A trial where the legal arguments are National Secrets. Where the defendant, his lawyer, and the public do not get to hear the arguments -- or even a summary of what they where. Where the evidence is secret. Where ? Perhaps a particularly brutal african dictatorship ? Or and Eastern Block country of a few decades ago ?
Of course not. It's today, in the good old US of A, Home of the Free. Well I guess we're going to have to find a new slogan. The obvious - 'Home of Totalitarianism' doesn't sounds so good, though.
Why is it that this happens -- that it gets no coverage? That its gone this far, this long ? That at the very very least heads aren't rolling as we speak? This isn't some rogue state prosecutor, this the DOJ. And really does this kind of thing happens without the Attorney General's (Alberto Gonzales - these days, but this started under Ashcroft) say so. This is Evil and it's sanctioned.
What the hell has happened to this country - where have it's values, it's morals gone ?
I am leaving the room to scream now - see you tomorrow, if the freaking black helicopters haven't taken me away.