First: ON-topic, congratulations! An excellent point well made.
Second: OFF-topic, I dunno if you’ve gotten around to listening to “Se per havervi” yet, but I thought I’d let you know I responded to your comment & posted a link in it to “Os justi”, too. ;-) Hope you enjoy!
Great letter! Congratulations!
Now I’ll have to get another letter in the NYTs!
Congratulations! And, well said.
I have followed the Padilla case over the last several years; I was in Chicago, where he’d been arrested, when Ashcroft made the announcement about the alleged dirty bomb plot, which was terrifying. What is more terrifying now, in retrospect is that the Attorney General of the United States could hold a press conference to publicly accuse someone of a heinous plot for which there was no evidence. With this last trial, it seems that Padilla got, finally, a sentence appropriate to his circumstances. Unfortunately, it took five years to get there, including 3.5 years in solitary confinement where, according to reports coming out, he absolutely lost his mind. The way our government used him for propaganda, manipulating the court system and ignoring the Constitution, taking an American citizen and denying his inalienable rights at the whim of the President makes me genuinely ill. Padilla should have had *this* trial 5 years ago. A bad guy, probably; but he was exploited and broken for political ends having nothing to do with national security. Who will pay for the crime that has been done to him? No one.
That’s awesome!
First: ON-topic, congratulations! An excellent point well made.
Second: OFF-topic, I dunno if you’ve gotten around to listening to “Se per havervi” yet, but I thought I’d let you know I responded to your comment & posted a link in it to “Os justi”, too. ;-) Hope you enjoy!
Great letter! Congratulations!
Now I’ll have to get another letter in the NYTs!
Congratulations! And, well said.
I have followed the Padilla case over the last several years; I was in Chicago, where he’d been arrested, when Ashcroft made the announcement about the alleged dirty bomb plot, which was terrifying. What is more terrifying now, in retrospect is that the Attorney General of the United States could hold a press conference to publicly accuse someone of a heinous plot for which there was no evidence. With this last trial, it seems that Padilla got, finally, a sentence appropriate to his circumstances. Unfortunately, it took five years to get there, including 3.5 years in solitary confinement where, according to reports coming out, he absolutely lost his mind. The way our government used him for propaganda, manipulating the court system and ignoring the Constitution, taking an American citizen and denying his inalienable rights at the whim of the President makes me genuinely ill. Padilla should have had *this* trial 5 years ago. A bad guy, probably; but he was exploited and broken for political ends having nothing to do with national security. Who will pay for the crime that has been done to him? No one.