You’re right, ben, Justice will not be rendered through conventional legal channels, but Eureka’s idea is an effective People’s Court, where the rule of Justice is administered, not the rule of Law…..which we all know, in its current state, was written for the Plutocrats to escape Justice, and for The Masses to never receive Justice.

Posted by: Morocco Bama | Apr 24 2011 19:10 utc | 4

What is interesting about this story is that, if true, it reveals the total political illiteracy of Obama’s crew.
Clearly, in order to win popular and Congressional support for closing Guantanamo down, there had to be a campaign againast those who set Guantanamo up. Had Bush and Cheney, and their minions, in the legal and intelligence communities, been harassed by prosecuting them for their criminality (of which there was abundant evidence) their ability to continue to maintain the fictions on which Guantanamo was based would have been considerably abridged.
They would have had to devote their energies to defending themselves.
They are after all, unindicted, suspects in a whole range of major felonies. The ICC has never prosecuted a war criminal with as many charges to answer as Bush, Cheney or their subordinates would have to face. No Liberian, Croat, Hutu or Serb has come close to amassing an indictment of the size or severity that could be lodged (using nothing more than the public record) against the founders of Guantanamo, the torturers of Bagram, the kidnappers and the assassins of thousands and the destroyers of Fallujah.
Had Obama being acting in a rational fashion, as a politician, he had the luxury, employing nothing more than blindfolded justice and statute law, to sit back and watch as virtually the entire high command of the Republican party was charged and tried, on very serious offences, about which nobody could complain that they were politically motivated persecution.
Given that his first act in office was to announce that the law would be retroactively suspended so far as his predecessors were concerned. That every crime would be forgotten, whitewashed and, supposing that any still remained, forgiven; the fact that he has been unable to shake off the fruits of those forgiven crimes is not surprising.
Of course what this takes us back to is the “Who is Barack Obama?” question. To which my answer is that he is the son of a woman who worked for the US government in Indonesia, in the early years of Suharto; the step-son of one of Suharto’s officers and a minor kleptocrat in a genocidal regime, whose victims must number inn thev millions. The son of a cadet of the Empire selected for a US scholarship and an economist in the administration of one of the most craven allies of the ‘west’ in Africa. The grandson of an official in a bank which dealt with Marcos for the US government. A community organiser in the tradition of Saul Alinsky. A pol in the Daley machine. A protege of Joe Lieberman. …

Posted by: bevin | Apr 25 2011 1:40 utc | 6

one week ago, we read this:
http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-barack-obama-conclusively-outed-as-cia-creation/
Not only Obama, His father, Mother and all family worked for CIA.
All is clear today

Posted by: an idiot | Apr 25 2011 10:27 utc | 8

b @ 9:” catch from a trawl whose nets had dragged in all sorts of people, many of them by mistake.”
That about says it all, mostly innocent nobodies, whose lives have turned into complete horror because the US empire needs something their nation has.

Posted by: ben | Apr 25 2011 13:50 utc | 10

Khadafi had prisons in Lybia that were set up for the explicit purpose of stopping immigration to the EU, that was part of the deal he made, with Italy, and thus by proxy with the EU.
Reportedly, the no. of prisoners was about 60K to a 100K, the bulk ‘black’ Africans, but not only. In Concentration camps.
It is rumored that the larger part of the refugees, to Lampedusa, and then to Italy, and now given temp. Schengen visas by Berlusconi are from these prisons.
(According to the press, about 20K ppl accorded visas, must be about right, but those are mostly Tunisians and Egyptians, afaik.)
Sark had a fit and closed the border in Ventigmiglia..
I have no idea if the story about prisons in Lybia is true, but the rumors are very long standing and persistent.
There were always some who escaped, (?) and in CH, anyway, as they were oppressed by Khadafi, they were given the benefit of the doubt, as the Swiss hate Kahdafi with a passion beyond reason. Here, we have at present, well I hate to give a number, but several hundred a day coming in, and many claim to be from Lybian ‘pens’, ‘concentration’ prisons.
Just throwing that out, sorry that I can’t substantiate – just one of those things that is not reported in the press..

Posted by: Noirette | Apr 25 2011 18:38 utc | 12

Noirette,
I do not know the specifics of how Libya stopped refugees, but I know they did. And did so as a deal with the EU. Tunisia and Morocco are also confirmed to be part of the southern wall of Foretress Europe. Algeria can safely be assumed to be in to. As part of the deal Europe has delivered surveilliance equipment, the better to monitor the population.
For an American comparision it would be as if the US paid Mexican poilticians to enact and patrol the wall on their side of the border. Clever, is it not? Until the whole thing comes crashing down that is.
If you find any online intervieu with any of the refugees (bloggosphere/small media) I would find it very interesting.

Posted by: a swedish kind of death | Apr 27 2011 7:01 utc | 14

@ a swedish kind of death at 24. I also heard that the ‘black’ or ‘ African’ mercenaries Kadahfi hired came from these prisons and were not recruited abroad and did not travel into Lybia. If I see something of interest, I’ll post it.

Posted by: Noirette | Apr 27 2011 14:33 utc | 16