
A federal appeals court this week dismissed a civil lawsuit brought
by six men formerly held at Guantánamo Bay who were wrongly detained
and abused there. The suit, one of the last remaining Guantánamo damages
suits, was brought against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and
other military officials for torture, religious abuse and other
mistreatment of plaintiffs, some of which clearly meet criteria of mind control and ritual abuse.
Such ritual abuse, somtimes torturing to
death, is a hallmark of dictators and rogue nations. Ritual abuse is
a.k.a. Cult Related Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Ritualized Abuse, Sadistic
Ritual Abuse, Organized Sadistic Abuse, etc. (http://www.religioustolerance.org/sra.htm)
Mind control and
ritual abuse are typically used against targeted individuals, including
innocent detainees captured as prisoners of war by the American
military, according to its definition.
In dismissing their claims, the D.C. Circuit stated that the torture and religious humiliation these men endured—even after being
cleared for release by the military—were incidental to the “need to
maintain an orderly detention environment,” “appear[ed] to be standard
for all” U.S. military detainees in Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan,
and “was certainly foreseeable [by the government] because maintaining
peace, security, and safety at a place like Guantanamo Bay is a stern
and difficult business.”
“It is deeply disturbing and disappointing
that the court has refused to hold those in the military command
responsible for the abuse and prolonged detention of individuals who
were determined not to be enemy combatants. Torture and religious
humiliation are unacceptable wherever they occur,” said Russell P. Cohen
of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, who argued the case. “When
it is directed at individuals known not to be our enemies, it defies
comprehension. This decision regrettably leaves these plaintiffs with
nothing for their abuse.”
In a number of previous cases, the D.C.
Circuit ruled that immunity doctrines apply to shield actions of
government officials who abused Guantánamo detainees while
supposedly suspected of being enemy combatants. The Supreme Court has
thus far declined to hear appeals from those holdings. Unlike prior cases, three of the plaintiffs in this case were abused even after they were found to not be enemy combatants. In fact, the government negotiated with allies to resettle some of the men as refugees, even while continuing to abuse them in detention.
“If the court is correct that torture and
religious humiliation are par for the course for detainees in the
custody of our armed forces, that is an indictment of the way the United
States treats its military detainees,” said Shayana Kadidal, counsel
for CCR in the case and Senior Managing Attorney of the Guantanamo
project at CCR.
Plaintiffs are considering their options
for further appeal, including to the Supreme Court, which has refused to
hear and decide a Guantánamo case since 2008.
One Uzbek plaintiff, Zakirjan Hasam, was subject to all the worst abuses inflicted on Guantánamo detainees after found
by a military (CSRT) panel to not be an “enemy combatant”: he was
placed in solitary confinement (against a military psychologist’s
advice), subjected to sleep deprivation, prevented from praying,
forcibly shaved, and medicated against his will. When finally sent to
Albania as a refugee, 23 months after the military panel’s ruling, he
was sent shackled and bound to his seat. He continues to live in poverty
there.
Another plaintiff, Sami Allaithi, could walk when brought to Guantánamo, but left in a wheelchair. He was routinely beaten. His Koran was desecrated, beard shaved, and religion mocked — all after he
found to not be an “enemy combatant” by a military panel. Now with
family in Egypt, he remains immobilized and in great pain.
The other plaintiffs are an Algerian
doctor, taken from his pregnant wife and five children in Pakistan in
2002 and eventually sent to Albania as a refugee in 2006 (two years
after his military panel found he was not an “enemy combatant”), and
three Turkish men released before the military even provided CSRT panels
to detainees.
CCR’s co-counsel on the case are Russell
P. Cohen, Jason Cabot, Bob Rosenfeld, and Howard Ullmann of Orrick
LLP’s San Francisco office. The case was argued by Mr. Cohen. For more
information on this case, visit CCR’s case page.
The Center for Constitutional Rights is
dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the
United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights
movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational
organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force
for social change.
For more information on ritual abuse, see Stop Mind Control And Ritual Abuse (S.M.A.R.T.) newsletters.
They are published to help stop secretive organizations and groups from
abusing others and to help those who allege they have been abused by
such organizations and groups. This newsletter is not a substitute for
other ways of recovering from ritual abuse. Readers should use
caution while reading this newsletter. If necessary, make sure other
support systems are available during and after reading this newsletter. See S.M.A.R.T.
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Revealed: The Destroyer of Obama's Tyranny
(One of the following will stop the runaway train called "Obama" and will be famous forever! Go over the listing and see if you can find who will achieve this:)
A Republican; a Democrat; an Independent; a Chinese dissident; a Muslim jihadist; a talk show host; a teenager on meds; a movie star; a White House policeman; a Black rap artist; Michelle Obama; a Jewish columnist; a 90-year-old jogger; a death row inmate; YOU; a member of a Russian garden club; a Wall Street insider; a perennial lottery loser; a Secret Service agent; a recently discovered superbug; a vengeful pig farmer; a 105-year-old Tea Party member; a mad Army general; a gay alien from the Exonica Galaxy; the world's first transgendered dog, or one of Obama's live-in relatives.
(The correct answer, buried above, is three letters long and in caps. For more on the same tyrant, Google "The Background Obama Can't Cover Up.")
[Spied the preceding piece on the net. Comments about it are more than welcome. Tyrone]
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