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Cueball
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posted 23 February 2007 08:25 PM
Psychiatrist says US terror suspect has Stockholm syndrome quote: "He's constantly advocating for the position of the government," said Hagerty, who examined Padilla between February and June 2006 and was called to the witness stand by the defense lawyers."He lacks the capacity to assist the counsel in his case," she said. "His reasoning is impaired."
From: Out from under the bridge and out for a stroll | Registered: Dec 2003
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M. Spector
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posted 24 February 2007 10:42 AM
The Systematic Destruction of Jose Padilla quote: Rather than any necessity to control him, Jose Padilla experienced the total isolation that is at the core of the U.S. government's decades-under-development program of psychological torture. According to Padilla's attorneys:"his interrogations... included hooding, stress positions, assaults, threats of imminent execution and the administration of 'truth serums.'" ... Why did this psychological torture continue for years on end? Originally one can imagine that they actually thought Padilla had some secrets to reveal. But long before the three and half years were up, they surely must have realized that he had no secrets to reveal. So why continue? One can only speculate. Were they conducting a barbarous experiment, trying to determine what it would take to destroy his personality? Was it simply brutal punishment for the humiliation experienced by those who ordered this treatment after they realized he was not the big terrorist they had fantasized they had in their power? Did the mechanisms of barbarity just grind ever onward after being set in motion by an administration determined to get the maximum press coverage out of this low-level arrest?
From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005
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M. Spector
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posted 24 March 2007 03:38 PM
quote: A US federal judge Friday refused to dismiss terrorism support charges against Jose Padilla, finding that Padilla's 3½ years in custody as an "enemy combatant" did not violate his constitutional rights. US District Judge Marcia Cooke said that the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was not invoked until Padilla was charged with a crime; the years that Padilla was held in a Navy brig did not count because he was not charged until November 2005.
SourceSo your constitutional rights are "on hold" while you are being imprisoned for 3½ years without charge. See also: A tale of two cases in US “war on terror”: Jose Padilla and Chiquita Brands quote: Two recent cases prosecuted by the US Justice Department involving charges of providing material aid to a foreign terrorist organization have led to startlingly different results for the defendants.In the first, the accused was seized by federal agents at a US airport, vilified as a mass murderer by the US attorney general in a nationally broadcast press conference and then held in solitary confinement without charges or the right to see a lawyer or have contact with family members for more than three years. During this period, he underwent sensory deprivation and outright torture that, his lawyers argue, left him mentally damaged and incompetent to stand trial.... In the second instance, the individual defendants have never even been named, much less publicly denounced by the attorney general. The sole mention of the ultimate punishment for their crime came in the form of a discreet posting on the Justice Department web site. The defendants in this second case are part of a major multinational operation and admit to funneling millions of dollars abroad to finance a murderous terrorist organization. Yet they were allowed to reach a pre-trial plea bargain that included as the penalty a fine amounting to 0.55 percent of their annual revenue. The organization that financed the foreign terrorists has boasted publicly that its global operations have not been affected in the slightest.
From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005
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