Impeach Jay Bybee

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signalmankenneth

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April 21st, 2009 by Rafe
Think Progress has started a campaign to urge Congress to impeach Jay Bybee. Bybee is the author of the torture memo that I wrote about last week, and has since become a judge on the Ninth District Court of Appeals.

As far as I’m concerned, Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate our use of torture, but there’s not much you or I can do about that. On the other hand, impeachment is a political proceeding, and we can all encourage our representatives to start impeachment proceedings. Impeaching Bybee would also start the ball rolling on a wider discussion of how torture was applied by the US government.

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This a$$hole is a federal judge too, he said waterboarding was not torture and it was painless too! Why is he still on the bench?

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Southern Man said:
He's right of course. Its not torture and isn't painful.
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it is torture, plain and simple. there is absolutely nothing you could say or show that will redefine waterboarding as anything other than torture. You'd confirm it was torture after having it done to you for an amount of time that you didn't get to choose, at a place you didn't get to choose, and for any reason other than you chose to have it done to you.

waterboarding is torture.
 
signalmankenneth said:
April 21st, 2009 by Rafe
Think Progress has started a campaign to urge Congress to impeach Jay Bybee. Bybee is the author of the torture memo that I wrote about last week, and has since become a judge on the Ninth District Court of Appeals.

As far as I’m concerned, Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate our use of torture, but there’s not much you or I can do about that. On the other hand, impeachment is a political proceeding, and we can all encourage our representatives to start impeachment proceedings. Impeaching Bybee would also start the ball rolling on a wider discussion of how torture was applied by the US government.

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This a$$hole is a federal judge too, he said waterboarding was not torture and it was painless too! Why is he still on the bench?

waterboarding.jpg
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Here's how to resolve the situation:
New Reality Show - America's Most Guilty Torturer.
Each week the contenders have to persuade the TV viewing public and a panel of judges why they should not be imprisoned for life. The last one standing (probably Cheney or Rumsfeld) is publicly pilloried and gaoled for life but with an added twist. Cameras in his cell for the spin-off programmes such as "More America's Most Guilty."
Why am I telling you this? This could make me a fortune.... Move over Simon, I'm coming aboard!!!
 
SmarterThanYou said:
there is nothing closed minded about torture. it is, or it isn't. waterboarding is torture. end of story. It's not any different than the right to bear arms. It's a right, not a privilege and no amount of redefining keep and bear will change it.
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Not sure that I agree. I would certainly agree that water-boarding, as we have seen it, is torture, but there are things that might fall into a grey area. Suppose for instance advantage was to be taken of known phobias or of religious or cultural rites which the victim believed were a matter of life and death.
However, having agreed that water boarding is torture one must then determine whether the present law determines it a criminal practice. If that is the case then those suspected of that criminal act should be arrested and given a fair hearing.
And then shot. (Sorry, couldn't resist that)
 
Maybe you already got this but here's a site with a petition to urge bybee's impeachment.

http://www.democrats.com/no-amnesty-for-torturers

signalmankenneth said:
April 21st, 2009 by Rafe
Think Progress has started a campaign to urge Congress to impeach Jay Bybee. Bybee is the author of the torture memo that I wrote about last week, and has since become a judge on the Ninth District Court of Appeals.

As far as I’m concerned, Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate our use of torture, but there’s not much you or I can do about that. On the other hand, impeachment is a political proceeding, and we can all encourage our representatives to start impeachment proceedings. Impeaching Bybee would also start the ball rolling on a wider discussion of how torture was applied by the US government.

bybee.jpg


This a$$hole is a federal judge too, he said waterboarding was not torture and it was painless too! Why is he still on the bench?

waterboarding.jpg
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In any sane world Bybee would be impeached in short order. Hence, I expect him to remain a federal appellate judge until he chooses to retie.
 
Lowaicue said:
Here's how to resolve the situation:
New Reality Show - America's Most Guilty Torturer.
Each week the contenders have to persuade the TV viewing public and a panel of judges why they should not be imprisoned for life. The last one standing (probably Cheney or Rumsfeld) is publicly pilloried and gaoled for life but with an added twist. Cameras in his cell for the spin-off programmes such as "More America's Most Guilty."
Why am I telling you this? This could make me a fortune.... Move over Simon, I'm coming aboard!!!
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I think there would be a bigger audiance, if we started with the Chinese Government Officials.
We could let the displaced farmers, be the Judges.
 
Lowaicue said:
Not sure that I agree. I would certainly agree that water-boarding, as we have seen it, is torture, but there are things that might fall into a grey area. Suppose for instance advantage was to be taken of known phobias or of religious or cultural rites which the victim believed were a matter of life and death.
However, having agreed that water boarding is torture one must then determine whether the present law determines it a criminal practice. If that is the case then those suspected of that criminal act should be arrested and given a fair hearing.
And then shot. (Sorry, couldn't resist that)
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Can we start with the Chinese Officials that support the invasion of Tibet.
 
uscitizen said:
Invade Tibet? Isn't it already inside China?
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Ignore the idiot. He has been banging on about Tibet for years. He thinks he's being smart. For one who cannot point to Washington I doubt that he could get the right page in an atlas of only Tibet.
He's just a thick yank.
 
Lowaicue said:
Ignore the idiot. He has been banging on about Tibet for years. He thinks he's being smart. For one who cannot point to Washington I doubt that he could get the right page in an atlas of only Tibet.
He's just a thick yank.
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I can see by your post, that you are truely ashamed of the way your Chinese masters act; but that you just don't have the spine to speak openly about it.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
there is nothing closed minded about torture. it is, or it isn't. waterboarding is torture. end of story. It's not any different than the right to bear arms. It's a right, not a privilege and no amount of redefining keep and bear will change it.
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It has nothing to do with the right to bear arms. Its only torture if the government determines it is. When we used it at Gitmo the government determined that legally it was not. Now the government has changed its mind. According to ex post facto the folks that administered the waterboarding then did not commit torture.
 
Southern Man said:
It has nothing to do with the right to bear arms. Its only torture if the government determines it is. When we used it at Gitmo the government determined that legally it was not. Now the government has changed its mind. According to ex post facto the folks that administered the waterboarding then did not commit torture.
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You don't know your ass from your elbow.
 
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