These prior blog comment replies seemingly appear applicable to be re-mentioned and directly applicable and applied to this TPM Article.

Thank you and all for your continued indulgence.

Thank you and all for your time and consideration.

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From my interpretation and as I am (also) proud and concerned that I continue to hope that our Executive, Legislative and Judicial Leaders and Members of our great Country will uphold our endeavors in the manner that I and many others have recommended for many years and/or decades, I have attached an additional blog comment reply I recently posted on this well know formidable TPM Muckracker website.

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Please, is someone available to get through to US President Obama, US AG Holder and others in the Executive, Judicial and Legislative Branches of our 'We the People' US Government to also remind him of his and their written promise to our US Constitution, False Claims Act, FISA Courts, Restoration of Habeas Corpue, prevention of Illegal Signing statements, Illegal Wiretaps, prevention of Torture, Illegal rendition, legal//Illegal Secrecy, and to the complete abolishment of the enactment of the death penalty ecetra and to his and their promise to Whistleblowers and his and their written promise to support the 'FEDERAL EMPLOYEE WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION RESTORATION ENHANCEMENT ACT (that he has already allowed to be voted out of the current so-called Stimilus Bill and with a seemingly illegal Signing Statement).

Please note, recall and remember our DECLARATION,

'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'

Also and importantly, please note, aside from the prospective that it is also seemingly and absolutely required and mandated within our US Constitution and that these concerns must have and are explicitly entitled to full and complete Legislative and Judicial Review.

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Without the full and complete inclusion of the Restoration and Enhancement of the US Constitutional mandated 'FEDERAL EMPLOYYE WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION RESTORATION ENHANCEMENT ACT' and for all this or any other similar legislative proposal would appear to continue to hold our US Government nugatory and if not outright appalling, dispicable, sad and disgusting and/or the seemingly protrayed
ability thereof.

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Dear Readers, 1/14/2009

Good day. Thank you and all at TPM for the format and in allowing me to vent my impromptu exasperated frustrations within the past several recent days within many TPM Articles within these areas of seemingly great and/or notable concern and/or to and/or within all.

Also and most importantly, my apologies if I have offended anyone, as it is and remains my intent to not offend anyone. Also and importantly, my apologies in where I should and/or may have been expected to be more thoughtful in my blog comment replies. And finally, my apologies for the abundance of spelling and gramatical errors and within the lack of the and/or any expected formally educated Journalist skills.

In closing, please allow me to mention and that it appears well needed that interested Readers give their support to the endeavors of the US Constitutional, Bill of Rights mandate towards the 'Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Restoration Enhancement Act' (for all) and directly to the due-dilligent Organizations of the Government Accountability Project GAP, the National Whistleblower Center NWC, Project on Government Oversight POGO (and the now 100's of additional other supporting Organizations) that have painstakingly for Decades and with the highest of Integrity, Fidelity and Bravery continue to provide the superb and excellent Professional Leadership to these US Constitutional, Bill of Rights mandates and within our Declaration towards hopes and aspirations of our declaration towards Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for all.

In closing, my exasperated frustrations continue as it appears that seemingly to some extent these concerns continue and as I have previously mentioned as;

'This is not the hope for the 'Change We Can Believe In'. It appears seemingly similar to the same 'pack of lies' deranged, maniacal, dishonest, disingenuous, corrupt ongoings by these very exact same Individual(s)and exact and/or similar Practices, Policies and Procedures with the seemingly exact same and/or similar forbidden and/or uncorrected, secret and unwarrented illegal/legal Laws, Rules and Regulations and/or applications thereof.'

Again my many thanks and appreciation to TPM and the many formidable blog comment replies from the recent several days and weeks within these TPM topic areas of seemingly ongoing concern(s).

Again and finally, I presume it may be best for me to allow these GAP, NWC and POGO Oragnizations to provide the leadership and/or also until a Member of our US Executive, Legislative and/or as appropriate Judicial Branches of our 'We the People' respond to me and/or on this highly formidable and notable TPM Muckraker website.

Thank you and all for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Tpmreader

In accordance with our own laws, Guantanamo Bay "detainees" deserve their day in civilian Court, as has already been determined by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Given the spirit, letter and application of our laws, our government cannot invoke "state secrets privilege" on a broad, continuous basis that contradicts the enjoyment of our civil liberties, human rights, privileges and immunities of citizenship and guaranteed civil rights. And our military forces cannot isolate themselves from the greater constitutional framework on which they depend for their very existence and "raison d'etre." The Fourteenth Amendment insures "equal protection of the laws," not only for American citizens, but for "other person(s)" within the jurisdiction of the United States.

The Founders framed American jurisprudence in contradistinction to the ignominies they had suffered under British rule, and therefore took great pains to infuse as many protections as humanly possible into the Constitution and subsequent laws. For example, in order to sustain cohesiveness in the Thirteen Colonies until the federal government could not only consolidate but legitimize national power, Framers set aside A.D. 1808, as the earliest year they could address "the slavery issue." However, subsequent legislation, beginning in the aftermath of the Civil War, proceeded to enact and secure both civil penalties and criminal punishment for all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States who violate constitutional rights of any person in one of the States or Territories of the United States. For the "other person(s)" would come to enjoy protection from all our laws in accordance with the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution of the United States.

The first such "Civil Rights Acts," was debated in Congress in the year A.D. 1866; and in A.D. 1871, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1871, also known as the "Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871." The current law, 42 United States Code, Section 1983, provides both State and federal remedies to violations of civil and human rights, not just for American citizens but for "other person(s)" within the jurisdiction of the United States. These acts were comprehensive in securing protection for all human beings even before the enactment of the Civil Rights Acts of 1965 and thereafter.

These Acts read: "Every person who under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, ANY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OR OTHER PERSON WITHIN THE JURISDICTION THEREOF to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law,....."

The U.S. Supreme Court only endeavored to "right a wrong," which was long overdue. These protections do not allow real criminals who have been charged, tried and found guilty in a court of law to escape from justice, but state that substantive rights, such as civil and human rights, must be respected in accordance with due process of law, especially in cases of criminal indictment. In the case of the "detainees," these rights were flagrantly violated. From what we have heard, they were even tortured with a method called "water boarding."

Therefore, the "internees" or "detainees" at the US military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, also have the benefit of these protections, falling under "other person" as provided by the Acts. No person can lose the right of Habeas Corpus or be confined for an indeterminate length of time - in these cases seven years - without charges being brought against them. That has been the problem with imprisonment of men captured in the Middle East by our military forces. No charges had ever been brought against them for seven years. It was a mistake to bring them here, even closer to our national jurisdiction, to then proceed to violate their civil and human rights, which were, not only already secured by our own laws, but also by the Geneva Convention, regarding treatment of "prisoners of war."

But these "prisoners of war," were first labeled "terrorists," without proof or charge; then, they were called "detainees". Nevertheless, the U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled that their rights must be restored and that they also have the right to be heard in federal courts, and that they cannot be held indefinitely without charge. The Supreme Court decision only reaffirmed protections that have already been secured for all persons who are within the jurisdiction of the United States, since A.D. 1871.

And there is cause for concern - for, the danger is that, if the errors of Guantanamo Bay are not lawfully corrected, even with proper reparations where duly merited, - once the precedent or "stare decisis" is set, the government could by legal verbiage extend this treatment to private citizens of the United States, as in cases of unlawful or unwarranted "wiretapping," or other violations.

"Vigilance," or "prudent watchfulness," is "the price of liberty." We must give careful attention to the way in which these cases will proceed and the outcomes that will ensue from judgments therein rendered. Thanks. With our Lord's blessings. LEO

okay, this is a deal breaker for me. I have been very upset since reading about Obama's plan to appeal the court decision that gave some Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their imprisonment (in other words, suing for habeas corpus), per this brief bit in the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/world/asia/11bagram.html?_r=1&ref=world

I now consider Obama a corrupt, lying fraud. I did prefer him over Hillary in the primaries (but would have definitely preferred Kucinich, who of course was ridiculed and marginialized by the PTB) and even became enthusiastic by the general election. His so-called "constitutional scholar" background was especially impressive and gave me every reason to hope that he would restore justice in this situation. In addition, on Day 1 of his presidency, virtually literally as I recall, he emphatically stated that "the rule of law" and habeas corpus would be reinstated.

In 2006 he gave an impassioned speech about the necessity of restoring habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainees -- see Glenn Greenwald at salon.com, "Obama and habeas corpus--then and now":
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/11/bagram/
(Greenwald, by the way, is a REAL constitutional scholar, not a phony who uses it as a way to con people into voting for him).

I urge everyone to make a stink about this. I am now making it a point to return any fund appeal from any Democrat, whether by e-mail or snail mail, with a curt note that I will not give one thin dime to any Democrat or the DNC until this corrupt liar is brought to task about this matter and makes good on his "promises."