Inspired by The Panopticon..?
Posted on 10/19/2017 5:34:22 PM PDT by markomalley
The Nigerian native known as the “Underwear Bomber” sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday in federal court in Denver, alleging his constitutional rights are being violated at the ADX supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court of Colorado, alleges that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been forced into solitary confinement for an undetermined amount of time, that he’s been chastised by other prisoners and guards for being Muslim, and that he’s been force-fed non-halal food when he went on hunger strikes to protest his alleged mistreatment.
Abdulmutallab is serving four life sentences, plus 50 years without parole, after he was convicted of attempted use of weapons of mass destruction charges. He was sentenced in February 2012 and transferred to ADX the next month.
Abdulmutallab had tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear while aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas 2009.
He was alleged to have connections to al-Qaeda and Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the Colorado State graduate who had called for the killing of Americans before he was likely killed in a drone strike in late 2011.
The lawsuit alleges that once Abdulmutallab got to ADX in Colorado, he was immediately placed in long-term solitary confinement and placed under special administrative measures (SAMs) that prohibited his communication with most of his family members up until last year, when he was allowed to talk to his sister.
The lawsuit says he’s still not allowed to talk to any of his nieces or nephews.
It says of 154,000 people incarcerated by the Bureau of Prisons, Abdulmutallab is among less than 30 who have special administrative measures, and alleges that he shouldn’t be placed under the restrictions because his communications don’t risk “death or serious bodily injury to persons” or property, which is a requirement of the SAMs.
“Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the United States Constitution,” the suit says.
It says the restrictions constitute “an unconstitutional deprivation” of his First Amendment rights to free speech and association.
If he’s a Nigerian native he doesn’t have any constitutional rights.
He’s a Nigerian native. I don’t believe he’s an American citizen. He waged terroristic war against US citizens. What constitutional protections does he have, other than perhaps a fair trial before a too-generous sentence of life in prison?
He should have been pushed off a high place with a remotely detonated stick of dynamite in his pants. It’s what he showed he really wanted.
Let him go on hunger strike, and conveniently forget to look in on him periodically.
I’d put him in a pit filled with bar-b-q pork products... he could eat or not as he chooses, and would have to do his “business” right there in the pit. Leave him for a while, then fill it in with earth and rock.
“Lawsuit”, huh? Must be a “democrat”.
Aw, gotta at least do like they do in the Saudi prisons and give him two buckets...one with water and one empty for waste.
Wow...I care more about my belly button lint than this POS...
Didn’t he burn his pecker off too? I read that somewhere...
Inspired by The Panopticon..?
Might want to peruse this:
Looks as though at least parts of the Bill of Rights apply equally to non-citizens, but I did note that they do not have a right to legal counsel on our dime. The other thorny problem is holding deportees in jail for extended periods of time when their country of origin refuses to repatriate them. I guess that was part of the rationale for Gitmo since it isn’t on US soil.
He’ll find some islamist facilitating judge who’ll let his suit proceed.
Well, technically there would be due process afforded to an American citizen.
Being an islamic terrorist, I would have no problem if LEO wasted him on the spot while he tried to commit his act of terrorism; regardless of citizenship.
re:”This lawsuit could’ve been prevented...” Yes put him in General Population... heh heh
Crybaby
He should walk in Tommy Silversteins shoes
Then he could whine
Since they all seem to claim Muslims are in the “religion of peace”, then those who commit such acts can’t be considered Muslim any more - put them on a pork diet because there can be no religious constraints.....
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