Ultra-Patriot Bill Proposal to End Abuse: Eliminate Debunkers
Sir Adolf C. B. Wholeflaffer A.S.A

For all honest researchers, real patriots, freedom-lovers,
liberty-defenders, anti-fascists and true scientists,
like myself, I am pleased to announce that I am
attempting to add a rider to the curiously-named Patriot Bill.

I call it the "Ultra-Patriot Bill Rider!!"
This bill will target the real enemy of ALL
MANKIND: THE UFO debunker and their
Cult of Useful Idiots. 

Needless to say, these Truth-Terror
threats will be apprehended  and tried
in a secret MILITARY TRIBUNAL,
that General/Judge Borman Killemall
will preside at.

The debunker will not be allowed a lawyer,
and cannot speak against the secret evidence
that will be presented against him or her
(Chen-Destabilizers, take note!).  The CIA/NSA
torture-squads may be used to extract a
"forced" confession!! Thank Gawd
this is a democracy!!

This should eliminate the debunker/troll
once a for all.  Good riddance to 
bad rubbish.  Have a fun time in Hell!!

Please take note that not just the UFO debunkers will be targeted.

Also included on the list will be friends of debunkers, suspected debunkers,
friends of suspected debunkers, debunker sympathizers, 
suspected debunker sympathizers,
friends of suspected debunker sympathizers,
debunker guerrillas and debunker rebels;
as well as anybody else that "we" determine
is implicated in the cover-up, and then some.

One's actions on this newsgroup WILL be
taken into consideration.  

Our almost-elected President is calling 
on each and every one of you to turn in a list
of names that you suspect are debunkers.

My short list includes: Sludge, Twit, Lewis,
Googooian, U. Bob, Chumpy, Davis, Boston,
Griffin, Davis, Black, Patrick, Wilson,
Art�s Twin/Hugh, Capt. Shitman;
and the real spOOks: O-Borg, Adams,
Echelon and Borsch.  

Hopefully, these threats will be sent to one of
the hundreds of brand-spanking new
Re-Education Camps, run jointly
by the Pleiadians and the National In-Security
Agency (NISA). 

If that fails, we can always send the debunkers 
to the middle of the Nevada desert and drop about 1 million
H-bombs on them, that�ll certainly brighten their day!!

Peace out,

Adolf
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Amnesty International report denounces US treatment of war prisoners By Ruby
Rankin

A recent report by Amnesty International (AI) warns that the Bush administration
is repudiating basic democratic rights and undermining the entire post-World War
II system of international humanitarian law.

The 60-page document, which exposes US torture of those captured in the "war on
terror", is entitled The threat of a bad example: undermining international
standards. It details the US government�s treatment of foreign war prisoners
held without charge and denied access to their families and legal counsel for
almost two years in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Bagram US Air Base, Afghanistan.

AI quotes the US president and other high-level government officials, including
the secretary of state, condemning the use of torture by various countries and
proclaiming America as the world�s foremost proponent of human rights. These
comments are juxtaposed against current examples of US-inflicted torture.

"Allegations of abuses such as arbitrary arrests, prolonged incommunicado
detention, ill-treatment, interrogations without legal counsel and threats of
unfair trials by military bodies are raised each year in the US State
Department�s reports on human rights practices in other countries," the report
states. "Now they are being made against the US government in the context of its
�war on terror�."
AI interviewed some of the handful of prisoners released from US military
detention, establishing that those held at Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Air Base and
other locations are regularly being tortured with "stress and duress"
techniques.

Detailing the methods used, the AI report says: "Colonel Roger King, the chief
US military spokesman in Bagram, confirmed that �we do force people to stand for
an extended period of time... Disruption of sleep has been reported as an
effective way of reducing people�s inhibition about talking or their resistance
to questioning.� He was reported as saying that a �common technique� was to
maintain 24-hour illumination in cells or to wake inmates up every 15 minutes to
disorient them. Forced standing, he said, could also be used to punish any
inmate who spoke to another.... Lt. Gen.  Daniel K. McNeill, Commander of Joint
Task Force 180 in Afghanistan, also acknowledged that prisoners had been
subjected to forced prolonged standing in Bagram."

Those detained at Guantanamo Bay are subject to President Bush�s Military Order
enacted following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US. It renders them
eligible for trial by military commission. Under this order anyone who is not a
US citizen can be arrested, held incommunicado and even executed in secrecy
without recourse to due process of law. These methods are no different from
those used by military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Peru and other Latin
American countries during the 1970s and 80s.

AI notes the discrimination between US nationals and others, with only non-US
citizens subject to the Military Order. It also records, however, that US
citizens are not immune from arbitrary and inhumane treatment. The Bush
administration has no hesitation in eliminating anyone it regards as standing in
its way. For example, a CIA-controlled Predator unmanned aerial vehicle
summarily executed a US citizen in November 2002 in Yemen.

The report refers to "irregular rendition"�a technique employed by the US
government to avoid normal channels of extradition between countries. This
involves the kidnapping of individual suspects by foreign military and police
authorities, working under US direction, and moving them to third countries for
torture.

Using this method, men deemed as terrorists by US authorities have been picked
off the streets in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malawi and other countries, held
incommunicado and tortured. The "lucky" ones are released days, weeks or months
later. No charges are laid or trial held. Others kidnapped in this way have been
transported by the US military to Guantanamo Bay, Bagram or other undisclosed
locations, including Zimbabwe, Morocco, Jordan or Egypt, where they are being
held without charge.

Demolishing Bush administration claims that those held in Guantanamo Bay were
"illegal combatants" captured "on the battlefield aiding and abetting the
Taliban", AI cited several cases of men captured outside Afghanistan but
"rendered" to Guantanamo Bay. This included six Algerian men in
Bosnia-Herzegovina who were handed over to US authorities in January 2002 by
Bosnian police and two men arrested in Gambia, and secretly transferred to
Bagram then Guantanamo.
Another prisoner, Moazzam Begg, a dual UK/Pakistani national, one of many seized
in Pakistan, was transported in the boot of a car to Kandahar and then Bagram
before being flown, bound and gagged to Guantanamo Bay. He wrote to his father,
"I have not seen the sun for over seven months except once, for around two
minutes." Begg is one of the first six Guantanamo Bay prisoners who could be
brought before a US military tribunal.

Another well-documented example is the case of Sayed Abassin, a 28-year-old taxi
driver detained en route from Kabul to Khost in April 2002. Although authorities
were actually after one of Abassin�s passengers, the taxi-driver was handed over
to the US military and flown to Bagram Air Base.

Amnesty International reports that Abassin was held in handcuffs and shackles,
kept under 24-hour lighting and constantly woken by guards when he attempted to
sleep during the first week. He was interrogated six or seven times, not given
enough food or allowed to talk to, or look at, other detainees, and forced to
stand or kneel for hours. Abassin said he was blindfolded and hooded, with his
ears covered, and his hands and feet bound during his transfer to the US base in
Kandahar. He said that if detainees looked at US soldiers� faces they were made
to kneel for an hour. If they looked twice, they were made to kneel for two
hours.

Abassin told the human rights organisation that he was interrogated five or six
times in Kandahar before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay. On arrival he was
grilled 10 or more times in the first few weeks after his arrival and then held
for another 10 months without any interrogations before being released.

Violation of Geneva Conventions

As the AI report makes clear, the Bush administration is using the "war on
terrorism" to repudiate the US Constitution and numerous Geneva Conventions.

The first Convention, which was inspired by Henri Dunant, founder of the
International Red Cross, was signed in 1864 to protect the sick and wounded in
wartime. Others were adopted in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to
deal with chemical and biological warfare and for the humane treatment of
prisoners of war. The four Geneva Conventions enacted in 1949, following WWII,
underlie current international law on the appropriate conduct of wars, including
civil wars, and the treatment of prisoners.

Now in the early days of the twenty-first century, the US government has
abandoned its democratic traditions at home and abroad and repudiated in
practice (if not in words) the international laws that enshrine the most
rudimentary principles of fairness and justice.
Although AI investigators were unable to determine how many children are
imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, they extracted a statement from Paul Butler, US
deputy assistant secretary of defence, who admitted that the military was
holding a "very small number" of detainees under the age of 16. He claimed it
was "difficult to determine the exact age for the detainees, as birth records
are not readily available".

AI also cites General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
who "justifies" this violation of basic rights by declaring, without any
evidence, that the children were terrorists. "Despite their age, these are very,
very dangerous people," Myers declared. "They may be juveniles, but they�re not
on a little-league team... they�re on a major league team, and it�s a terrorist
team."

Irrespective of the precise age of the children or the allegations against them,
it is a criminal offence under international law and the various human rights
protocols to hold anyone under the age of 18 as a war prisoner. The US is a
signatory to 17 protocols adopted by the Geneva Convention in 1949 to protect
children in war zones and other measures established under the United Nations
Convention of the Rights of the Child.

In highlighting the US government�s turn to arbitrary executive power, the AI
report quotes a former judge on the Superior Court of New Jersey: "The very core
of American history, law and culture condemns the ideas of punishment before
trial, denial of due process and secret government by fiat. Who is an enemy
combatant? Today, it can be anyone the president wants. And that is terrifying."

While Amnesty International provides no analysis of the political character of
the Bush administration and urges the regime to reform its ways, the report is
valuable in that it documents the extent to which Washington is tearing up basic
human rights. It calls on the US government to drop its plans for military
tribunals, to charge and provide a fair trial to the war prisoners or release
them, and to give the human rights body access to detainees and officials at
Bagram and Guantanamo Bay.