have been replaced by
the terrorists of al qaeda.
And we shall subject them to
trial by fire
trial by water
and other trials by ordeal.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Trial_by_ordealQUESTIONS FOR HANS BLIX
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
Published: March 28, 2004
Your new book, ''Disarming Iraq,'' recounts your futile search for weapons as the former chief United Nations weapons inspector.
Yes, President Bush and Tony Blair were convinced there was something there. They were convinced there were witches.
You yourself initially believed there were weapons! Only later did you change your mind.
Yes, I, too, believed there were weapons. I began to be skeptical when we went to sites that were given to us by U.S. intelligence and we found nothing. They said this is the best intelligence we have, and I said, if this is the best, what is the rest?
Anyway, Saddam Hussein is a kind of witch, isn't he?
No, he is Satan himself! Evil personified.
You never even met him.
He considered it far below his dignity to meet any sort of lowly creatures like international inspectors.
Can one say the same of certain leaders in democratic countries? Wasn't Vice President Cheney equally dismissive of you?
The Pentagon and Cheney have been very negative toward inspections. Cheney said inspections are useless at best.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/magazine/28QUESTIONS.html?ex=1086235200&en=109bd04c749c0dca&ei=5070Aaah,
anglo-saxon jurisprudence triumphs again.
Downes v. Bidwell
182 U.S. 244
May 27, 1901
There are certain principles of natural justice inherent in the Anglo-Saxon character, which need no expression in constitutions or statutes to give them effect or to secure dependencies against legislation manifestly hostile to their real interests." <182 U.S. 244 at 280>
http://www.ark-of-salvation.org/hooven_downes.htmAlthough Mr Blix says he is not bitter, he is scathing about the "faith-based" approach of Messrs Bush and Blair which he says was tantamount to a "witch hunt". After a conversation with John Wolf, Assistant US Secretary of State for Non-proliferation, who is accused of obtaining secret information from his office, he says: "I understood his formulations to say, 'The witches exist; you are appointed to deal with these witches; testing whether there are witches is only a dilution of the witch-hunt'."
http://truthout.org/docs_04/030904F.shtmlPart III deals with the legal procedures for prosecuting a witch. This includes rules for taking testimony, admitting evidence, procedures for interrogation and torture and guidelines for sentencing. Hostile witnesses were permitted to testify because everyone hated witches.
Torture is dealt with matter-of-factly, if the accused did not confess after a year or so in prison, then torture could be applied as an incentive. So, confessions attained by torture were valid.
Judges were permitted to lie to the accused, promising leniency if they confessed, reasoning that is was done in the best interest of the society and state.
For some crimes light sentencing was prescribed, but, according to the authors' acknowledged purpose of executing as many witches as possible, most of the instructions on sentencing pertained to death.
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/m/malleus_maleficarum.htmTwo years ago, the president of the United States faced a very difficult choice. After a careful process, he decided to declare Jose Padilla for what he was, an enemy combatant, a member of a terrorist army bent on waging war against innocent civilians. And the president's decision was to hold him to protect the American people and to find out what he knows.
We now know much of what Jose Padilla knows. And what we have learned confirms that the president of the United States made the right call and that that call saved lives.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/01/comey.padilla.transcript/... by depriving Padilla of his.
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