Comments on: Now for Something Completely Different

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:32:37 +0000

I think the Court ruling was reasonable. This is at the heart of separation of powers. Like a case from decades ago held that the wife of a military man overseas was entitled to a jury trial despite being tried by a military tribunal. The point is that no branch of law is above the Constitution.

The military can still set up its own procedures to diminish the amount of meritless writs. Like in Hamdi, the court suggested steps courts could take to ensure due process while balancing security interests.

The point about being held overseas turned out to be a weak argument since the US still has control, even if no control over the sovereign. I wonder if this will open the door to claims from prisoners being held in places by our agents, like in Pakistan.

By: Caya

Caya — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:34:58 +0000

You too – Thanks. Look up Yushchenko & his wife too. That gets really interesting.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:17:15 +0000

The only problem is blowback. We armed and trained the muhajideen in the 70s, and now we have Islamofascists who want to kill us. Look at the disaster the Carter administration was. We do not want to stir up conflict for our own selfish reasons just to antagonize two superpowers. That’s just crazy. It is better to keep allies like Pakistan, even if they spend our foreign aid on fighting with India.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:08:57 +0000

Thanks for the link. I see what you mean by a lot of pieces to fit together.

By: Mr.Murder

Mr.Murder — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:06:38 +0000

Meanwhile the UK is also having a controversy gin up on the window of days detention can be allowed.

Some claim this is for technical aspects of evidence gathering, the time needed to secure password encryption. It’s entirely doubtful Menworth can’t descramble something far faster than that.

TWN has the story in greater detail using the PM’s appearance to Parliament on BBC.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/06/cameron_does_a/#comments

This is plausible cover for the Bush White House,
something is pending that could get into news cycles, this extra month or so may well push some item past the window of an election when coupled with other matters of process.
This comes on the heels of our own SCOTUS decision.

Connect the dots….

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:04:39 +0000

Sorry… It was Michel Chussodovsky I was thinking of.

Here is the link, anyway. It is about the remapping of the Middles East, oil, and it has some helpful diagrams.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060726&articleId=2824

By: Ed Reed

Ed Reed — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:49:20 +0000

Thanks for the update and your return to sanity. More please.

By: Mr.Murder

Mr.Murder — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:14:25 +0000

Think we’d do better to have them blame a neighbor like India before they do the USA.

Might as well go with the Brzez model and use regional rivalries for strategic purpose….

By: Caya

Caya — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:35:26 +0000

Yes, I think so YUKOS Oil – This is the wiki address

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky

What was the Essay? Is it online?

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:30:23 +0000

Thank you! This decision makes our country look like a sappy bunch of mollycoddlers. I’m against torture, but I’m also against giving terrorists immigration priority.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:20:03 +0000

Is this the same Michael Chodorovsky? Because I’ve read his essays on the Caspian pipeline and the remapping of the Middle East.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:28:29 +0000

Amen, Hope!!

All those establishment Democratic leaders supporting Obama like Daschle and Kerry and Rockefeller are the VERY ones who ENABLED every single illegal act George W. Bush enacted.

If we want to CHANGE things, we need to clean out the compliant Democrats, too.

Let’s start with Nancy Pelosi.

By: Caya

Caya — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:12:37 +0000

Also, I just wanted to say thanks, the link is great.

By: David Axisrutt

David Axisrutt — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:11:33 +0000

Larry: I think it’s tough issues but I think you’ve made convincing arguments. Thanks for sharing.

By: Caya

Caya — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:03:00 +0000

I totally agree. I have not been able to piece this all together yet but frankly, I had a dream – yes a dream. I kept asking myself why Obama? I woke up thinking about Eduard Shevardnadze (this sounds so silly), but I thought I would look him up in the news and see what he’s been up to. Well, it lead to Soros and it lead to a lot of other things too. The pipelines, rail and Russian oil. This is also really interesting, go down to “the merger” and read down from there.

It is also possible that a major motivation for the arrest was Khodorkovsky’s meeting with vice-president Dick Cheney to discuss selling a large share of Yukos to American oil companies to make sure that he could pursue politics without having to fear losing his company, because it would now be backed by foreign big oil.

Look up Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wiki, that is where is quote is from

Like I said, I can’t quite put it all together yet but smell it if you know what I mean.