Category Archives: Indefinite detention

D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 9. May 2019 by

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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Police State USA and the NDAA: Creating American Terrorists

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 2. February 2014 by

Defenders of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which declares the entire world to be a “battlefield” against terrorism and authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected of being a terrorism supporter, have claimed that the White House will only use its new power carefully and with due process. Opponents note that the White House has never hesitated to use any new authority, no matter how outrageous, and that the trend of law enforcement and security agencies is to expand on powers granted, not to rein them in or limit them.

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Jose Padilla: No Charges and No Trial, Just Jail

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 21. August 2006 by
Jose Padilla is the U.S. citizen who supposedly plotted to detonate a "dirty bomb." Since his capture — not on the battlefields of Afghanistan or Iraq, but at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport — he has not been charged with any crime. Yet, for more than a year, Padilla has been held incommunicado in a South Carolina military brig.
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Scores of Muslim Men Jailed Without Charge

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 27. June 2005 by

In the report below, HRW states:

"Haste, incompetence and prejudice played a role in these detentions," said Anjana Malhotra, the report’s author and Aryeh Neier fellow at Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.

HRW’s above conclusion is highly subjective and attempts to deflect the real reason for these detentions which, according to the Webmaster, had nothing to do with haste, incompetence and prejudice.  Their detentions appear to be part of a deliberate policy by the US authorities to maintain the myth that the security of Americans is threatened by Muslim terrorism.  It suffices to note the lack of any evidence to support these detentions, the refusal to let the defendants and the press see the evidence, the failure of the US authorities to convict any of these people of terrorist acts or complicity, the silence surrounding the release of these people and the absence of victims of Muslim terrorism in the U.S. to question HRW’s conclusions.

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U.S. prepares long-term plan for jailing indefinitely terror suspects

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 18. May 2005 by

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/02/MNGC7AK2UO1.DTL San Francisco Chronicle U.S. prepares long-term plan for jailing of terror suspectsMore permanent approach sought for indefinite detainment Dana Priest, Washington Post Sunday, January 2, 2005 Washington — Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists … Read more . . .

COINTELPRO – FBI surveillance system

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 8. May 2005 by

http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO’s of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations. In the … Read more . . .

Official Misconduct in Indian Country

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 8. May 2005 by

Official Misconduct in Indian Country: The U.S. Department of Justice Introduction Source: http://www.peltiersupport.org/Welcome/DOJMisconductIntro.html In recent years, throughout the entire United States, miscarriages of justice have been uncovered at an alarming rate.  Many wrongful convictions are the result of simple human … Read more . . .

Examples of Official Misconduct

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 8. May 2005 by

http://www.peltiersupport.org/Welcome/DOJMisconductExhibit1A.html Official Misconduct in Indian Country: The U.S. Department of Justice EXHIBIT 1A:  Examples of Official Misconduct at the State & Local Levels Since the late 1990s, the Innocence Project (founded by Barry Scheck & Peter Neufeld) has been responsible … Read more . . .