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"WHY DID THEY TORTURE JOSE PADILLA?
By JOHN GRANT
THERE'S A RANCID odor escaping from the cracks in the Jose Padilla case. Padilla is the American citizen arrested in Chicago and declared by President Bush to be an "enemy combatant." He was then kept for nearly two years in a South Carolina brig without access to a lawyer, family or friends.
The courts finally forced the Bush administration to release Padilla into the justice system, and he is now imprisoned in Miami awaiting trial on charges that have nothing to do with what he was arrested for, an alleged plot to use a dirty bomb in the United States. It is claimed he had al Qaeda connections.
What makes this case so insidious is that, according to a psychiatrist who examined him over a 22-hour period, the treatment Padilla received in the South Carolina brig was such that he now "lacks the capacity to assist in his own defense." In other words, a U.S. citizen was secretly worked over for 21 months to the point he is unable to think well enough to engage with his lawyer."
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Read Items 1 & 3 from this page (they're pdf's) : http://cryptome.org/...dilla-695-6.htm - and check out the pictures to see what kind of "attention" was given him for a simple trip to the dentist.
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The read this one - http://news.yahoo.co...fter_guantanamo
"AP: Some Gitmo detainees freed elsewhere"
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Why all this reading? Because of this:
"Eighth Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Jose Padilla - regardless of what the man has or has not done - is still an American citizen!
If they can do this to him they can do it to you. Pete
