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Lawyers Furious as US Builds Death Chambers ... Horrors of the Nazis Remembered
(Frances Gibb and Tim Reid, Times UK Online, 05 July 2003)
LAWYERS expressed outrage yesterday at plans to put al-Qaeda suspects, including two Britons and an Australian, on military trial in Guantanamo Bay. . . . They would effectively be tried by a “kangaroo court”, stripped of all basic rights of due process that would be afforded in criminal courts in Britain or America, they said. . . . Matthias Kelly, QC, chairman of the Bar of England and Wales, said that the proposed trials were “totally illegitimate and a violation of every rule in international law”. . . . He said: “The construction of execution chambers makes virtually every lawyer in the Western world extremely angry. The idea that there is an artificial creation or enclave which, according to the Americans, is beyond the purview of all recognised systems of law is repugnant.” . . . Neal Sonnett, a former president of the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers, said: “The State Department issues a report every year in which it criticises those nations that conduct trials before secret military tribunals. What I’m hearing sounds alarmingly like something similar.” . . . Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, has delegated to his deputy, the hawkish Paul Wolfowitz, the final decision on whether the prosecutions will proceed.

[Comment: It looks like Rumsfeld, Bush, and Wolfowitz are building their own version of Auschwitz. First it is the hapless souls being held in Guantanamo ... but who will be next? ... People of Color? Drug Offenders? MP3 Downloaders? ... where will it end? ... the answer to that question is up to all of us.]

posted by Lorenzo 11:23 AM