Death and the West
Spinning the Military Tribunals
'A Mere Pretense of Legal Process
The Death of Due Process"Americans are no longer secure in law-the justice system no longer seeks truth and prosecutors are untroubled by wrongful convictions." -- Paul Craig Roberts
US 'Justice'
The case of forfeiture. -- Leon Felkins
It's a dead letter says John Keller.
Forgive Us Our Injustice System
Justice is no longer a concern of the justice system. Careers depend on conviction rates. It is easier for police and prosecutors to get convictions by piling charges on a convenient suspect until they coerce a plea than to solve a case and find the truth.
How justice was lost"These injustices, committed by people whom society trusts to determine guilt and innocence, are not aberrations. If the premier crime lab and a premier police department are corrupt, you can imagine the situation elsewhere. And indeed, wherever we look we witness the cruelty of a bureaucratized system driven not by justice but by conviction rates."
Harden Not Your Heart
Against the millions of victims of government justice. Article by Paul Craig Roberts.
Star Chamber To Get More PowerSecretive judges get the ability to rubber-stamp even more secret-police adventures. The total secrecy of the process has eliminated any public accountability, the constitution is dead, no one's right are safe.
Win at all CostsHow prosecutors trample justice to get convictions, sometimes against innocent people. --Bill Moushey; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
DOJ: Cypherpunk Threatened Feds
"Political essayist Jim Bell is on trial this week in Tacoma, Washington in a similar trial that involves his alleged use of legally-obtained CD-ROMs to compile information about IRS agents. He is not accused of directly threatening them, but the government says that by collecting information about agents and by refusing to renounce his writings about how to assassinate unethical federal employees, Bell is guilty of violating "stalking" laws." -- Wired.com
Cypherpunk Judge Warns Media
Judge who doesn't want the public to know of the travesty of this kangaroo court threatens to jail anyone who publishes public court records.
Cypherpunk's Free Speech Defense IRS Prosecutes Outspoken Dissident Soviet-style travesty of a court convicts Jim Bell for his political beliefs and for daring to investigate and name the thieves and terrorists of the IRS.
Panel hears testimony for, against secret-evidence law
Man held in prison in Florida for three years because the Feds say they have secret evidence that he is linked to Middle East terrorists. But the Feds won't disclose who the accusers are, what the nature of the evidence is or how he can defend himself. He is under a deportation order but no one is willing to take him.
Scripps Howard News Service
What's Wrong With This Picture?Slobodan Milosevic will be dragged before a war crimes tribunal while Robert McNamara touts his latest book on world peace. Article by Robert Scheer.
