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  • Accidental push of button sends (FL) school detention notice to all parents

    02/12/2008 3:37:33 PM PST · by Clintonfatigued · 23 replies · 124+ views
    WWSB Channel 7 ^ | February 12, 2008
    The parents of all 2,550 Palm Bay High School students received a phone call informing them that their child was due for weekend detention. No, there was no coordinated uprising at the school. An accidental push of a button sent the automated call to the homes of the entire student body instead of the intended 16. One parent didn't believe her son's protests that he had done nothing wrong and took him to school Saturday morning anyway. When they learned of the glitch, Amy Stewart took her son Jimmy to breakfast to make up for it. Assistant superintendend Steve Muzzy...
  • Emergency detention plan: 'This way to the ZOT!'

    05/30/2007 9:47:34 AM PDT · by cposnarkey · 2,708 replies · 13,661+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | 05-30-2007
    Houston-based KBR was awarded an initial $385 million contract in January 2006 for one year, with four one-year options extended into 2007. KBR held a previous emergency detention contract with ICE from 2000 to 2005. ICE spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback told Corsi the primary intent of the contract was to build temporary detention facilities that could be used in the event of a mass migration crisis, but she confirmed the facilities could be employed in national emergencies, including natural disasters.
  • Facility angers ACLU, UT students

    04/09/2007 7:30:00 AM PDT · by P-40 · 36 replies · 855+ views
    The Dailey Texan ^ | 4/9/07 | Annie Billups
    A mundane, state-of-the-art building outside of Austin has stirred the hearts of two radio-television-film students, numerous immigrant rights groups on campus, the UT Immigration Law Clinic and the American Civil Liberties Union. The facility under scrutiny is the privately owned T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a for-profit immigrant detention facility in Taylor, Texas. Inside, approximately 200 immigrant children and their families live in what some people are calling inhumane conditions while awaiting their court hearings. Nine-year-old Canadian Kevin Yourdkhani wrote a message to his prime minister pleading for rescue."I don't like to stay in this jail. I'm only nine years...
  • U.S. detention of key Shiite raises ire

    02/23/2007 4:38:46 PM PST · by SkyPilot · 8 replies · 542+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 23 Feb 07 | BRIAN MURPHY
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops detained the eldest son of Iraq's most influential Shiite politician for nearly 12 hours Friday as he crossed back from Iran — the same route Washington believes is used to keep powerful Shiite militias flush with weapons and aid. Even though the U.S. ambassador issued a rapid apology, the decision to hold Amar al-Hakim risks touching off a backlash from Shiite leaders at a time when their cooperation is needed most to keep a major security sweep through Baghdad from unraveling. It also highlights the often knotty relationship between U.S. military authorities and Iraq's elected...
  • ACLU: Lawsuit seeks end to SoCal immigrants' prolonged detention (Four OTMs)

    10/10/2006 9:51:15 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 11 replies · 548+ views
    Several legal advocacy groups asked a judge to order the immediate release of four immigrants who have been detained for months or years without receiving a hearing on why they're being held so long. The motion filed Friday in federal court in Los Angeles asks U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter to release the detainees under conditions of supervision or grant them hearings. The move followed a class-action lawsuit filed Sept. 25 on behalf of six detainees by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and the Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic. Two detainees...
  • School gives parents detention for tardiness

    10/03/2006 4:38:59 PM PDT · by disclaimer · 24 replies · 566+ views
    Associated Press/ MSNBC ^ | Oct. 1, 2006 | Some Minion
    NEW YORK - A public school is requiring detention for parents who get their kids to school late. Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don’t drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the principal’s office and go to the auditorium to serve 20 minutes of detention with them.Read more...
  • "Golden Rule" Pelosi: 'Permitting Indefinite Detention is Contrary to Our History and Values'

    09/28/2006 4:03:19 PM PDT · by Libloather · 46 replies · 1,023+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 9/27/06
    Pelosi: 'Permitting Indefinite Detention Under Conditions that Cannot be Challenged in Court is Contrary to Our History and Values'Wed Sep 27, 3:45 PM ET To: National Desk Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this afternoon in strong opposition to H.R. 6054 -- Military Commissions Act. Three major amendments offered by Democratic Members were rejected by the Rules Committee. Below are Pelosi's remarks: "It's been five years since 9/11, yet not one person who has been directly...
  • US government apologizes for incident with Venezuelan foreign minister

    09/24/2006 8:53:48 AM PDT · by ondatra · 13 replies · 642+ views
    The US government has called regrettable an incident with Venezuelan foreign minister and apologized to the official Caracas. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called the detention in the New York airport another provocation by George Bush.
  • Venezuelan official detained at JFK(showed up late without a ticket)

    09/24/2006 3:00:26 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 12 replies · 697+ views
    AP ^ | 09/24/06 | IAN JAMES
    Venezuelan official detained at JFK By IAN JAMES, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago Venezuela's foreign minister said he was illegally detained for 90 minutes by officials at a New York airport and accused them of treating him abusively by trying to frisk and handcuff him. U.S. officials called Saturday's incident regrettable and said they had apologized to Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro. Maduro called that insufficient and said Venezuela would seek a legal challenge through the U.N. to what he called a "flagrant violation of international law" and his diplomatic immunity. "We were detained for an hour and a half,...
  • New Detention Policies Hold Troops Accountable for Enforcement

    09/07/2006 4:25:41 PM PDT · by SandRat · 3 replies · 283+ views
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2006 – In addition to ensuring humane treatment of all detainees, a new policy directive and field manual released yesterday hold all servicemembers involved in or familiar with detainee operations accountable to ensure they are enforced. DoD Directive 2310.01E, “The Department of Defense Detainee Program,” describes core policies critical to ensuring that all detainees -- lawful and unlawful enemy combatants alike -- are treated humanely and within the law, explained Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, during a Pentagon briefing yesterday. But the policy also provides safeguards to ensure these standards are enforced,...
  • New Documents Outline Detention, Interrogation Policies

    09/06/2006 6:43:04 PM PDT · by SandRat · 3 replies · 299+ views
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2006 – A new policy directive and field manual released today establish crystal-clear guidelines on U.S. military detention and interrogation policies and further the Defense Department’s longstanding policy of humane treatment for all detainees, defense officials told Pentagon reporters today. DoD released two new documents today: DoD Directive 2310.01E, which provides overarching guidance on DoD’s detainee operations worldwide, and Army Field Manual 2-22.3, which lays out specific guidelines for those directly involved in detention and interrogation efforts. The new DoD directive, “The Department of Defense Detainee Program,” describes core policies critical to ensuring detainees are treated humanely...
  • Court Backs Release of Islamic Fundraiser

    07/31/2006 10:41:14 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 8 replies · 477+ views
    Las Vegas Sun | AP ^ | 7/31/06 | Jeremiah Marquez
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a government request to deny the release of a top fundraiser for an Islamic charity that authorities say has ties to terrorism, his attorneys said. The move by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco came days after a federal district judge ordered the release of Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan, 45. Hamdan was to be released Monday evening, said Ranjana Natajaran of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Hamdan has been held at the Terminal Island federal detention facility in San Pedro for more than two...
  • Immigrant detention plan dismays critics

    06/24/2006 12:35:05 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 691+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/24/06 | David Crary - ap
    NEW YORK - The sweeping immigration bills in Congress would add many thousands of beds to the patchwork network of detention facilities that hold illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers — places that critics say are over-costly and under-regulated. Already, activists say, far too many nonthreatening people are held for too long in demoralizing conditions. "I'm not against homeland security," said Edward Neepaye, a pastor and human-rights campaigner from Liberia who was detained in New Jersey for four months. "But the greatest nation on earth must come up with a remedy that accords immigrants some respect, rather than throwing them in jail...
  • LA Times Op-Ed Darkly Muses About Mass Muslim Internment

    06/16/2006 3:13:03 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 14 replies · 579+ views
    LA Times/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    by Mark Finkelstein June 16, 2006 As this op-ed column from today's Los Angeles Times illustrates, the MSM and the left-dominated American academy continue to side, in the name of 'human rights', against measures designed to protect us from another 9/11 and with those who might potentially do us harm. Author David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University and volunteer attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, was co-counsel to the plaintiffs in Turkmen vs. Ashcroft. He condemns the district court ruling in that case, which, as described in this article from Jurist, held: "The US government can detain...
  • Commission Decides Detention Status For Detainee

    04/27/2006 4:19:59 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 161+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Sgt. Sara Wood, USA
    NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 27, 2006 – The presiding officer in the military commissions case of a suspected Algerian terrorist here yesterday denied a defense motion to move the detainee back to a medium-security facility from the maximum-security facility he was moved to a month ago. Navy Capt. Daniel O'Toole ruled that the movement of Sufyian Barhoumi was not done as punishment, but was part of a larger plan to reorganize the entire prison camp and was done for the safety and security of the detainee. Barhoumi, who is accused of being an explosives trainer for al Qaeda,...
  • New policy keeps detention center busy

    03/31/2006 10:07:59 PM PST · by txroadkill · 8 replies · 1,216+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | Friday, March 31, 2006 | DAVID McLEMORE
    As more non-Mexicans cross border, agency changes release rules PEARSALL, Texas – Except for the 10-foot-high security fence topped with barbed wire and the concrete barriers at the front door, the institutional gray complex in a former farm field along Interstate 35 could pass for a new high school. It's not. To immigration officials, South Texas Detention Center is simply a part of the nation's effort to efficiently detain illegal immigrants pending deportation. To critics, it's a prison by another name and an example of increasing erosion of civil rights for immigrants. At the heart of the debate is the...
  • China: Sane Chinese Put in Asylum, Doctors Find (no surprise)

    03/19/2006 3:40:53 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 9 replies · 375+ views
    NYT ^ | 03/17/06 | JOSEPH KAHN
    March 17, 2006 Sane Chinese Put in Asylum, Doctors Find By JOSEPH KAHN BEIJING, March 16 — Dutch psychiatrists have determined that a prominent Chinese dissident who spent 13 years in a police-run psychiatric institution in Beijing did not have mental problems that would justify his incarceration, two human rights groups said Thursday. The psychiatrists spent two days testing the dissident, Wang Wanxing, in Germany five months after China released him and sent him abroad. They said in a statement that their examination "did not reveal any form of mental disorder." The report could add fuel to charges that the...
  • Hamdan Case & The Detainee Treatment Act [Vanity]

    02/18/2006 10:45:03 AM PST · by Cboldt · 38 replies · 757+ views
    Various | February 18, 2006 | Cboldt
    In an effort to "be informed," I've been collecting various source documents relating to enemy combatant cases. Not making a serious study of it, by any stretch, but the following collection may be a "heads up" about a news story that will probably come out when SCOTUS reports the results of their February 17th Conference. Summary of Hamdan Case Quick Facts about Hamdan Citizen of Yemen Captured in Afgahnistan by Afghanis Classified as "enemy combatant" Held at Gitmo Asserted entitlement to prisoner of war status From Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 415 F.3d 33 ... Afghani militia forces captured Salim Ahmed Hamdan...
  • Al Gore's MLK Day Speech

    01/26/2006 10:14:29 AM PST · by DARCPRYNCE · 8 replies · 772+ views
    ChronWatch ^ | 01/22/06 | Edward L. Daley
    Former Vice President Al Gore gave another one of his famous anti-Bush speeches(1) last week before an enthusiastic audience of left-wing extremists called the 'Liberty Coalition' at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., and a more annoying compilation of unsubstantiated accusations I've not heard in recent times.
  • Detention Puts Terrorists Out of Action, DoD Official Says

    01/10/2006 5:05:21 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 251+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Jan 10, 2005 | Gerry Gilmore
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2006 – The detention of hundreds of terrorist suspects at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is helping to keep Americans and other peace-loving peoples safe, a senior Defense Department official said here today. "If released, many of them would return to the battlefield," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. The detainees held at Guantanamo, he said, have sworn to kill Americans and other perceived enemies of al Qaeda and radical Islam. "They should not be back out on the street," Whitman said. Nine detainees among Guantanamo's 500-prisoner population are charged with war crimes, he noted. Defense attorneys'...