It's all a matter of justice.

Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg writes:

"Far from the razor wire, inside the court that ordered Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, the stories of the once nameless, faceless men kept captive at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba come alive in page after page of habeas corpus petitions for 140 Guantánamo captives from 23 countries from China to Saudi Arabia.
They include assertions of being kidnapped to Afghanistan so the United States could cast them as captured on the battlefield. They write of wives and children awaiting their return and complain about their conditions, medical care and isolation.
Some allege American interrogations turned to torture. Others says they are innocent, devout Muslims mistaken for Islamic militants."

The justice is that of what every American has- to have their day in court. It is their day in a U.S. court and not of the nightmare star chamber justice of the tyrant Bush.

As tyrant Bush as said repeatedly of wanting to be a dictator it is coming to pass due to the attack on the symbols of America's economic and military powers.

This perversion of justice that tyrant Bush and his minons have promulgated upon the Constitution is the direct desire to ignore and trivialize the bedrock legal notion of "innocent until proven guilty".

This is why the founding fathers had the wisdom to add a Bill of Rights to our Constitution. The power of the state the founders well had experience with under rule Britannia. As envisioned through the Bill of Rights is a check on the power of the state. The tyrant Bush is assidously undermining under the cover of 9/11.

The unfolding legal battle over the world-girding gulag archipelago implemented by the tyrant Bush and his minons is of concern to all Americans because it strikes at the very heart of our justice system.

Those who are nameless and faceless of the "worst of the worst" being held at the Guantanamo gulag are slowly being revealed by the U.S. justice system and not by the Tyrant's justice of the star chamber .

Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg writes:

"Far from the razor wire, inside the court that ordered Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, the stories of the once nameless, faceless men kept captive at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba come alive in page after page of habeas corpus petitions for 140 Guantánamo captives from 23 countries from China to Saudi Arabia.

They include assertions of being kidnapped to Afghanistan so the United States could cast them as captured on the battlefield. They write of wives and children awaiting their return and complain about their conditions, medical care and isolation.

Some allege American interrogations turned to torture. Others says they are innocent, devout Muslims mistaken for Islamic militants."

The justice that these people seek is that all Americans have- to have their day in court. As has been seen since the Abu Ghraib torture scandal the percentage of people who are Islamic militants, hardcore jihadists or collaborators are very small but it is the innocent people who suffer the most at the hands of their jailers and those who have promulgated a world girding gulag archipelago.

Who would want to be held in captivity forever? Subject to the systematic torture of their jailers.

I am convinced that the Tyrant Bush and his "rapture" obsessed minons are Christian cultural bigots. Otherwise why would there be a US military base at one of the seven wonders of the world- Babylon? As Katrina vanden Heuval, editor of The Nation, writes about Cultural Barbarism:

"The sterile term 'collateral damage' justifiably brings to mind the human tragedy of war. But the devastating and wanton damage inflicted on the ancient city of Babylon by US-led military forces gives another meaning to the term. In this case, we are witnessing violence against one of the world's greatest cultural treasures. Babylon's destruction, according to The Guardian, 'must rank as one of the most reckless acts of cultural vandalism in recent memory.'

"Turning Babylon into a military site was a fatal mistake," the Iraqi culture Minister told Iraq Crisis Report.

She concludes with this call to action:

"There must be a full investigation of the damage caused, and Halliburton should be made to offer whatever compensation is possible for the wanton destruction of the world's cultural treasure."

However, the Christian cultural bigotry is clear because of Tyrant Bush and his administration's silence over cultural destruction of the huge Buddhist statues in Afghanistan before the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

The only quote I could find was by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, which is predicated on just his personal view and not that of his master:

"It's horrible, it's a tragedy. It's a crime against human kind. I deplore it," said Powell.

Meanwhile, the power of art and protest against this war continues to make small headlines:


Anti-War Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top Museums

NEW YORK -- Many a visitor to New York's Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, "I could do that."
A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed.
A portrait by a British graffiti artist known as 'Banksy' is shown in this undated photo. The work hung on the wall at the Brooklyn Museum, after the artist surreptitiously hung his own works of art in four New York museums. The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York's top museums on a single day.

Art continues to have an impact upon the warmongering/profiteering plutocrats of American society.

Drip, drip, drip is the sound of the truth slowly being revealed of Tony Blair's government complicity with Tyrant Bush's war of aggression with Iraq. There is the unveiling of redacted section of "the resignation letter of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a legal adviser at the Foreign Office, in which she said the war would be a 'crime of aggression'...of Documentary evidence has emerged showing that the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, changed his mind about the legality of the Iraq war just before the conflict began."

Colin Brown, Deputy Political editor of The Independent, writes about this rush to war:

"The revelations come two weeks after it emerged that there had never been a detailed dossier from the Attorney General setting out the case for military action before troops were committed, and that Britain went to war on the basis of nine paragraphs on a single sheet of A4 paper.

Last night's revelations - broadcast on Channel 4 News - showed that Ms Wilmshurst said the Attorney General had initially agreed with the Foreign Office legal team that a war on Iraq would be illegal without a second UN resolution."

So, in their haste to commit the crime of a "war of aggression" both men use the power of their office to ramrod through their respective democracies a Big Lie. The use of fear to cower those that would oppose those goals of "the Great Game" is prevalent. Both men abuse the power in their office and have not upheld their respective oaths upon taking the reins of power because the price of power is responsibility to the people and to their nation.

With Mr. Bush there is the forfeit to that office due to the means by which he was able to come to power. Both cases of 2000 and 2004 have shown that he will use any means to obtain and remain in power. The price of such ignoble means is that this nation's democratic institutions are in a state of peril.

What is shown in Mr. Blairs case is that he is willing to use the same methodology as Mr. Bush. However, one can see that in Great Britain that the power of the press can force a greater accountability to the people through the dissemination of information which is accurate and timely. This forceful journalistic enterprise is what is sorely lacking in American journalism which has devolved into the so-called objectivity of the playground mentality of "he said/she said".

What is happening in Britain is that Mr. Blair will be thrown out of power because the truth is slowly emerging for the world to see.

From the Christian Science Monitor comes this:

The Australian reported Monday that lawyer Stephen Kenny told a legal convention that the existence of the tapes came to light after a member of the US military, who had been told to masquarade as a prisoner during a training session at Guantánamo, was beaten so badly he reportedly suffered brain damage.

The Guardian also reported on the existence of interrogation tapes in May, 2004. US military officials confirmed their existence at that time.
Mr. Kenny said that the American Center for Civil Liberties is pressing for the tapes to be released after a report alleged that a "secret military review" of only 20 hours of the tapes found "10 substantial cases of abuse."

CSMonitor reporter Tom Regan writes further:

Also last week, Newsweek reported that four women interrogators have been recalled to active duty and may face military court-martials because of their involvement with abusive interrogation techniques. The Miami Herald reported last Wednesday that Army Gen. Bantz Craddock, chief of Miami's Southern Command, could not confirm the report that "investigators have turned up some evidence of abuses" at Guantánamo Bay.

Meanwhile on Aljazeera.net comes this report:

A US soldier accused of beating an Afghan civilian to death in 2002 should not be held solely responsible because authority figures used the same tactics, his attorney says.

Further in the report:

Brand is accused of beating Dilawar to death over a five-day period at Bagram Control Point just north of Kabul. An autopsy showed that Dilawar's legs were so damaged by blows that amputation would have been necessary if he had survived.

Dilawar died from "blunt force trauma to the lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease", according to a US Army report dated 6 July 2004.

"I thought [Monday's hearing] went reasonably well, like a dental appointment," Private First Class Willie Brand, 377th Military Police Company. Galligan said the knee-strike technique is a "non-lethal mechanism utilised to ensure compliance with a combative detainee".

The reports continue to come out that abuse and torture of men, women, and children by US military and intelligence units on bases, especially GitMo and Bagram.

The facts are plain that this is not the random acts of a few people but are interrogation techniques for specific purposes. The underlying ideology of using a specific torture methodology with Muslim men, women and children shows that Gen. Boykin's speeches at Christian churches have more then a grain of truth of this being not a "war on terror" but a "war between Christian and Muslim".

(Gen. Boykin is remembered as the former commander of U.S. Special Forces during the crisis in Mogadishu, Somalia. The film, "Black Hawk Down", is during Boykin's tenure as commander there.)

As other bloggers have commented on, it is that Senator Ken Salazar has a special obligation to the people of Colorado who worked on his campaign and those who voted for him, to the people of the United States, and especially to the Constitution is for him to hold Alberto Gonzales responsible and accountable for the on going abuses and torture of those who have been arrested, captured, or "disappeared".

Contrary to Mr. Gonzales' "fig leaf" protestations of this administration adhereing to the letter of U.S. law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and to the Geneva Conventions there is ample proof that this is not so both in word and deed.