2. Criticisms of Military Commissions Act (Wikipedia article) which denies prisoners of war their rights by the "3rd Geneva Convention" and denies Article 5 (Articles 2 and 7 also) of the United Nations "Universal Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (1948)
MORE BELOW on both issues:
VICTORY:
UN human rights chief welcomes United States court ruling on Guantánamo BayAT LAST WE, THE UNITED STATES ARE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AGAIN
12 June http://www.un.org/apps/news/region.asp?Region=AMERICAS– The United Nations human rights chief has welcomed today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court that the country’s constitution extends to foreigners being held in Guantánamo Bay and that they have the right to challenge their detention in the civilian court
I have been promoting Peace all the while. When the USA first invaded Afghanistan, I wrote the President suggesting Peaceful sanctions, or at least attacking non-people objects, instead of people. There are lots of innocent people in Afghanistan. Perhaps someone wants to sign up to volunteer thru the United Nations, Read of the United Nations programs to Rebulid Afghanistan UN pdf large file size) or UN Web In Afghanistan. Oh I know the attack on Afghanistan looked justifiable (as viewed on USA TV), after the Twin Towers, (and they did get Saddam who butchered the Kurds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack, well actually he was convicted of other things), but most people in Afghanistan had nothing to do with the Twin Towers (those who did the attack where all Saudi's (our "Allies"), and even if anyone from Afghanistan was involved, there are lots of innocent people in Afghanistan. I am guessing/betting that someday they will find out that Osama bin Laden is really a CIA Operative (probably hiding out, clean shaven, in Philadelphia? or Florida?).
Rebuild Afghanistan (and pass out anti-FGE leaflets, and other social leaflets such as Pro-Sex leaflets written by Dr Ruth Westheimer, as the Middle East is sexually hung up, which causes all sorts of psychological problems. Dr Ruth says Sex is Good, and even says legalized prostitution is good (such as in Nevada). 2 women accused of prositution were executed in Afghanistan July 12th 2008, we need to air drop pro-sex propaganda leaflets, all over the middle east (where FGE is widespread, homosexuality is punishable by death in some middle east countries, etc, and thats why they have problems, if you oppress the "Psychological ID" (ie. basic instincts: sex, food, water, shelter, and body elimination (using the restroom), if you Oppress these things in people, then you get reactive problems out of people. See my article on Sex/Social Issues in the Middle East http://www.archure.net/psychology/sex2.html#mideast but as Professor Fergueson (Psychology/Human Sexuality) says, the USA is also very sexually hung up, resulting in lots of problems. Legalize prostitution, in the USA and Afghanistan (so say the educated experts such as Dr Ruth Westheimer). The oppression against Prostitution in the USA, even in Nevada (where its legal, except in Clark County and Las Vegas, dirty double back stabbing trick to tourists who come here to find its a long way to a legal brothal, and some which are advertized are either too hard to find or are not really in existance (another dirty trick). Rumor is (motive), that Nevada was used for Nuclear Bomb Testing (which killed many people by lukemia in the 1950's and 60's thru the begining of the 90's), was quite possibly done as an Anti-Prostitution attitude, legal in Nevada, so bomb the hell out of everyone huh? (or take a college course in Human Sexuality, only to find out that it should be legal, everywhere). Instead of Attacking and hurting Afghanistan, we need to Educate and Help Afghanistan. There are lots of innocent people in Afghanistan (and lots of innocent people in the USA too, people who dont want war, don't participate in war, and even people who try to promote Peace). I wrote President Bush thru the White House email, urging that we air drop pro-sex leaflets in the middle east (for the reasons stated above), and in all seriousness, that is getting to the root of the problems, and thats what can fix the problems.
Phamphlets, not bombs.
Dr Ruth Westheimer says..... In my opinion, prostitution should be made legal everywhere in the United States, not just Nevada. I held that opinion before the onset of AIDS, and now I believe in it even more. (Sex for Dummies by Dr Ruth Westheimer page 324)
Dr Ruth Westheimer says..... In ancient times, prostitution was generally accepted; in some cultures it was even linked with religion, as 'temple' or 'sacred' prostitution. Cultures in which prostitution flourished included those of ancient Greece and Rome, Persia, China, and Japan. But while prostitution is legal today in many European countries, in the United States it is outlawed in all states but Nevada. (Encyclopedia of Sex by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer page 222)
Genuine Legal Brothal http://mabelswhorehouse.com/ but I would not use your Credit Card there, not because of the brothal, but because of what the Bank would do to you if they saw that on your bill (like calling your work number and office and talking with your co-workers to verify a charge to XXX Ranch, bankrupting you). Some people who have not studied psychology in college, mistakenly think prosititution is evil, and also think they can be evil to people who pay or recieve money for sex, like that is some sort of excuse to hurt people. The educated elite say different, much different. Even if Mables Ranch is a real place, its hard to find, I would call, disscuss it, print out a google map and its easy to miss the turn to HWY 160, but its easy enough to find if you know its 5 minutes drive from MERCURY NEVADA (US Air Force Top Secret Installation, top staff fly in and out all the time, but its all top secret "Sorry honey, another mission, I'll be gone a week"). From Las Vegas, drive North West out the 95 Freeway, after and hour or so of driving, when you pass Mercury Nevada (Area 51 Military only), prepare to make a left turn, then turn right onto a dirt road (even then its hard to find). OK, I admit I went out there, years ago, and I used my credit card, and was soon fiscally ruined, for many years. All because, not enough people bother to study Psychology in college. I would rather have a girlfriend anyway (not easy to find one, I know, I have tried), but one should not be condemed to hell for going. Acording to the educated experts.
With the Worlds Science, Technology, Communications, we could, and should have a much better world, a world of peace, helping each other, international trade, international travel, international prosperity for all, in only a few years, if we put forth the effort.
As per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006#Provisions
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 says....
- In General- No person may invoke the Geneva Conventions or any protocols thereto in any habeas corpus or other civil action or proceeding to which the United States, or a current or former officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent of the United States is a party as a source of rights in any court of the United States or its States or territories. [Act sec. 5(a)]
POSSIBLE PARTIAL VICTORY:
I read at Wikipedia, that the Military Commissions Act has been altered, but the specifics were not mentioned in the article I read (more later). Looking at Criticisms of Military Commissions Act (Wikipedia article) I see that this article has not been updated to include such info (and the other article was not specific enough). It does mention that someone won in court in one instatnce, but nothing that the Military Commisions Act has been changed, it sould be, ASAP.
Still uncertain, more later.
YOU HAVE RIGHTS
OR, YOU HAD RIGHTS, before the Millitary Comissions Act
IF WE DENY ANY OF THESE 30 RIGHTS, WE NO LONGER HAVE THEM DO WE? Lets not retract International Law. The Military Commisions Act of 2006 must be retracted immediately.
If Iraq cheats at war (bad), perhaps a few U.S. soldiers might even cheat (bad), but lets not retract International Law. Analogy: If a US Senator did not pay his taxes, would it be in the best interest of everyone to change the law to say it is OK for everyone to not pay their taxes, in order to clear the senator?. Selling out my rights, your rights, and what would have been the rights of our childrens childrens children, all over a few misfits? Selling out our rights for a handful of dimes? The Military Commissions Act (Oct 17 2006) needs to be retracted, immediately; else we have ruined what the founding fathers (Franklin, Jefferson, Washington) set out for us. How can we have rights unless we observe the rights of others?. In the mean time, I as an individual, am sticking to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (regardless of government gone wrong), I live by these rights, my rights, your rights, everyone's rights, and we all should make an effort to live by them, then things would be better, international trade and travel, and success for everyone, thanks to science, education, and cooperation.
WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx
HUMAN RIGHTS I believe that all humans should have Rights. Actually, all humans already do have rights (by the Laws of Nature, but many are not aware of that). You are human, God made us all. And if you believe in Karma, or What Goes Around Comes Around, or Sow and Ye Shall Reap, then you might consider Equality, Coexistance, and the United Nations "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html and posted below. Entitlements to freedom, shelter, food, health care, travel, privacy, as long as you don't mess with others rights; I hope you'll read all 30 "Article#'s" it's only a few words, it wont take all day, you owe it to your self
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DO HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE RIGHTS?
Article 13 (Right to move around within society),
Article 22 (Right to social security),
Article 23:
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 25
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
etc. etc. etc.
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(minus the preamble)
Source: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.