[Grovenet] Remember the goat herder?

[Martha Khoury]

And who has money to sue? Especially the US government. Especially  
after you've been in captivity for years. --MK

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>> New laws do not need to be invented.
>>
>> We do have a process for such conditions ( or at least the
>> Constitution did ).  Those wrongly held without bail could sue their
>> captors and those in decision making authority over their captors for
>> civil damages and mental anguish.  The current US Administration
>> should support those wrongly held in their court actions against
>> Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, Gonzales, et all.
>>
>> And then after a civil trial, we should allow for their extradition
>> to Afghanistan to face criminal trial by a jury of "their peers" for
>> charges of kidnap in the region/city where the kidnappings took  
>> place.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Katie Allnutt wrote:
>>
>>> Here is an interesting article for those who remember the story of
>>> the goat herder whose father in law turned him in for the $5K fee,
>>> thinking the US would quickly realize they just had a simple goat
>>> herder. But the family was disappointed when they kept him  for
>>> several years trying to get the 'truth' out of him. Of course they
>>> were confused because they thought the US was a big smart country
>>> that could tell the difference between a goat herder and a  
>>> terrorist,
>>> but they were wrong with folks like Cheney and Rumsfield in charge.
>>> Now we find ourselves in the situation where goat herders in
>>> Afghanistan know that Dick Cheney is a lying despot but not enough
>>> people in the US know it. With people finally feeling like they can
>>> come out and tell the truth (even though it is unfortunate they
>>> didn't have the balls to do so at the time) maybe we can return to
>>> the philosophies of Washington and the other founders who advocated
>>> treating prisoners humanely.
>>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_guantanamo_wrongly_held
>>>
>>>
>>> Katie
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