"He was tortured," Nubani told the court. "He has the evidence on his back. He was whipped. He was handcuffed for days at a time." "When Nubani offered to show the judge his back, O'Grady said that Abu Ali might be able to enter that as evidence on Thursday at a detention hearing."
Oh, you mean those self-inficted, or purposely created by co-terrorists scars to offer as (phoney) evidence? And we should take pity on you for your suffering, right?
Ok...let's get a doctor to look at those scars. It will be easy to ascertain if they healed with the assistance of proper treatment (i.e. "clean") as would happen if they were "staged" and he was whipped just to give some authenticity to his supposed suffering claims.
Or, was he left without proper care while the wounds festered and healed improperly - as would happen if the whippings were truly done by ones who wanted to cause harm and left him to suffer with no treatment to the areas.
How does this guy's (claimed) torture by the Saudis make him any less responsible?
I can think of a million excuses for a time when people are standing before a judge....
Let's think about standing before a grand jury to be indicted on charges of conspiring to kill the President. What are ya going to say?
I was raised in poverty!
My parents were drug abusers!
I have a drug addiction!
I was ridiculed by my peers all through high school!
..and the list goes on and on and on...in ad nauseum.
No....the sad fact is that this kid is a "Rod'er" (Religion of Death'er) and he thinks our beloved Commander in Chief is evil and needs to die.
I hate to break the news, but statistically, and historically, people who are taken into custody for the charges levied against him don't usually gain their freedom back any time soon.
BUT now this young man is firmly in the hand of his enemy! May God grant wisdom and dilligence to our U.S. Secret Service!
If what this kid says about the Saudis is true, then he knows if he had been charged similarly in Saudi Arabia, he would soon be dead. He "should" contrast this to the justice and mercy that he is receiving even now, here in this great nation of ours. But I doubt he will. I hope they roast his hatefull little carcass, but that's just me.
I'm currently playing a C-span video link of this hearing, but I'm not having any luck finding a transcript:
Full Participant List for Post 9-11 “Citizen Hearing” on Status of Civil Rights & Liberties Chaired By Rep. John Conyers
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 12, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
..: Muslim American Society :..
October 12, 2004 PRESS RELEASE
MEDIA ADVISORY
Full Participant List for Post 9-11 “Citizen Hearing” on Status of Civil Rights & Liberties Chaired By Rep. John
(Washington, DC) - Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) will hold a public “Citizen Hearing” on the status of Civil Rights and Liberties Post 9-11. The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, October 13, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm in the Rayburn House Building, Room 2237.
The participants are as follows:
Mahdi Bray, Executive Director MAS Freedom Foundation
Kit Gage, Executive Director NCARL
Kate Martin, Director Center for National Security Studies
Hilary O. Shelton, Director of Washington Bureau NAACP
Laura Murphy, Executive Director of ACLU
Ron Daniel, Executive Director for the Center of Constitutional Rights
Reverend Walter Fauntroy, former member of congress
Sikh Media and Resource Taskforce
Jim Ferg-Cadia, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Bilal Mahmoud, Victim and Vietnam Veteran
TASMEEN ABU ALI, sister of American political prisoner AHMED ABU ALI
Hadia Mubarak, President of Muslim Student Association-National
Reverend Walden Gaddy, Interfaith Alliance
Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center
Professor David Cole; Georgetown, University Law Professor
Dr. Esam Omeish, President of the Muslim American Society
The ADC.
The hearing will receive testimony from national civil rights organizations, legal scholars, activists, religious and lay leaders, as well as prominent citizens and victims, and family members who have suffered as a direct result of post 9-11 governmental policies. The hearing will focus on the erosion of civil rights and highlight positive solutions and activities: what could best be classified as “best practices”.
WHO: Post 9-11 Civil Rights Coalition
WHAT: Citizen Hearing on civil rights and liberties post 9-11
WHERE: Capitol Hill Rayburn Caucus Room # 2237
WHEN: Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
CONTACT: Mahdi Bray (202) 421-3623 or (202) 496-1288
======
*The Freedom Foundation is the public affairs arm of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a national grassroots religious, social, and educational organization. Learn more at www.masnet.org.
__________________________________________
MAS Freedom Foundation
1050 17th Street NW #600
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 496-1288
Fax: (202) 463-0686
URL:
http://www.masnet.org/index_publicaffairs.asp Email:
freedom@masnet.org
