US District Judge Gladys Kessler has rejected a Gitmo detainee’s request to end force-feedings at the facility, saying she would be overstepping her authority in doing so.
That doesn’t mean the policy is okay, however, and Kessler’s ruling included very pointed comments condemning the process as “painful, humiliating and degrading,” and adding that it was almost certainly a violation of international law and medical ethics.
The problem is that as usual Guantanamo Bay is operating in a sort of legal vacuum, and there is no judge empowered to actually order the law be followed there. Judge Kessler urged President Obama to end the force-feeding, noting that the way things are organized he is basically the only person who can end it.
That seems unlikely, as President Obama has avoided any but the most generalized comments on Guantanamo, and the military insists that the policy will continue as currently set up.
At least 106 detainees are refusing food at the facility, many of them cleared for release years ago. The number is almost certainly higher, as the military has confirmed that a small number of formerly CIA-held detainees can’t be officially counted as hunger strikers by the military whether they eat or not.
Gotta love these kangaroo court judges. They can't keep the government from doing illegal things, but they rubber stamp any requests for unconstitutional activities the government wants to do. So this is the "rule of law" these days.
All of those judges know that Big Brother is watching them as well, so they have to follow the program- in this case to frame it as a foreign policy issue rather than a civil liberties or Geneva Conventions and international law problem that demands resolution.
If you think this will give you confidence in Hillary's neocon "Age of the Woman" new con, think again.
The President is executing what a judge has just ruled to be an illegal policy. If we were still a nation with a constitution and laws, this would lead directly to the President being impeached.
The writers of the Constitution tried very hard not to leave such a loophole. But since both the judiciary and the congress are failing their sacred oaths to uphold and defend the constitution, they've torn a hole in the fabric of laws and constitution that they'd tried to create.
There is an answer. Next election, no one vote incumbents. And don't vote for the Dem or Repub fake opposition to opponents. Elect a new congress that will uphold the Constitution. We can do it. We just have to say enough and do it.
The Judge has tossed the ball into Obama's court and instead of catching it he turns and walks off the field.
read somewhere Israeli Medical Association is advising the Ramadan force feeding
pentagram takeover by biblestudy groups. Does that go with milk? Or maybe state religion is for blasphemous freaks, the recipe for caligula rule