Posted on 10/12/2001 8:48:32 PM PDT by tomball
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:31:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
If the writer did the proper research, it would have to be. Only one in 10,000 denied in 22 years, and the judge uses that one to "bristle" over rubberstamp accusations?
It implied to me that the judge knows this is wrong and thereby becomes a perpetrator of an evil. 
They would get bored to death listening in on me, besides it
will take up a lot of time. Ain't goin to happen.
I agree, but remember he works for and at the pleasure of
the President, who wants to move on.
It's Britian's Official Secrets Act of 1911
In the months leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor, a young code officer (his job) working in the U.S. Embassy in London had collected several hundred documents, some exchanced between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (as head of the British Navy.
The U.S. Ambassador in those days was Joseph Kennedy (father to future President John Kennedy). The code officer, Tyler Gatewood Kent, worked for Kennedy. And to be sure, Kennedy had been appointed to his Ambassadorship by Franklin Roosevelt.
Kent, from his reading of the secret documents, believed that Roosevelt and Churchill were secretly working to bring the United States into the war waging in Europe. As it's reported, Kent took the classified papers with the notion of going to the American public to expose this sub rosa activity.
Kent was found out and arrested in London by Scotland Yard Detectives. The date was 20 May 1940. Roosevelt was running for his thrid term as President. In the next three days the UK made plans to deport Kent.
News that Roosevelt was working to bring the U.S. into an unpopular war would have been very damaging to Roosevelt's run for President. Joe Kennedy, unsolicited and unilaterally, waived Kent's diplomatic immunity as an American citizen.
With the full sanction of his own U.S. government, Kent became a political prisoner with no American rights. A man without a country.
Kent was tried in secret under the Official Secrets Act, convicted, and sentenced to a 7-year prison term.
Kent served just over 5 years of that term, and returned to the U.S. about the time investigations into Pearl Harbor were in session.
Putting aside for the moment the question of right or wrong regarding the withholding of documents, Kent should have been returned home for a public trial.
Source: Toland, J. (1983). Infamy; Pearl Harbor and it's aftermath.
From the folks at CAMI.
I agree, but remember he works for and at the pleasure of the President, who wants to move on.
move on to what? unchallenged police state powers, and I was told that my vote for Harry Browne was a vote for gore! horse hockey, a vote for bush was a vote for gore, 9/11 is just the mechanism to push it faster then bush originally planned. the lessor of two evils my foot.
And it will be too late.
Carolyn
Absolutely no argument from me on that issue.
Exactly which of the powers available to the government under the new laws would have prevented the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center?
It probably already is.
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