Apocalyptic Hope ....... World Court, part one 

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WORLD COURT part two -- including 3 Belgian Courts :
EUROJUST ( European) ;
Belgium International Civil Court

NETWORKING the SYSTEM-- July 2003

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4th Circuit Federal Appeals Court upholds draconian detention -- July 9, 2003
A sharply divided federal appeals court today upheld President Bush's authority to detain indefinitely as an enemy combatant a United States citizen captured on the battlefield and to deny him access to a lawyer.

The full roster of active judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., voted 8 to 4 to affirm a ruling in January that first found such a right, the administration's most important legal victory to date concerning expansion of its authority since the Sept. 11 terror attacks...
describe as a significant expansion of the president's unilateral powers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/10/national/10DETA.html

From Joel Skousen World Affairs Brief http://www.JoelSkousen.com)....... July 11, 2003
MAJORITY OF US SUPREME COURT FAVOR GLOBALISM OVER CONSTITUTION
The current court is split between a minority of justices that give some allegiance to the original intent of the Constitution (Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia) and the majority (Sandra O'Connor, Steven Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginzburg, David H. Souter and John Paul Stevens) who espouse the “living Constitution” doctrine.  This latter view of the Constitution allows justices to change the effect of the Constitution, disregarding the amendment process, to suite the whims of society or liberal activists.  This is judicial activism at its worst and is responsible for the fact that the specific restrictions on majoritarian and government power which made the Constitution utterly unique in history are all but non-existent today.

  In a telling ABC interview this week, Justice Breyer waxed enthusiastic with his globalist views. “We see all the time, Justice O'Connor and I, and the others, how the world really - it's trite but it's true - is growing together … Through commerce, through globalization, through the spread of democratic institutions, through immigration to America, it's becoming more and more
one world of many different kinds of people. And how they're going to live together across the world will be the challenge, and whether our Constitution and how it fits into the governing documents of other nations, I think will be a challenge for the next generations.”  

Obviously, Breyer and the other activists judges intend to mold the [ Godly ] Constitutional to fit the new [ un-Godly ] globalist paradigm.  This includes the citing of foreign case law, as if it has legal relevance in American courts. In the Texas sodomy case, one of a recent round of controversial cases, the leftwing of the court drew upon foreign law
[European Convention on Human Rights, subject to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights ]
and case precedents to further justify stripping away the states’ right to ban homosexual conduct. 

Legal commentator and former Solicitor General Drew Days enthused,  “The justices are gaining the benefit of very sophisticated thinking by other foreign courts about privacy and equality….these terms are not unique to our Constitution and our society.”   Justice Stevens cited foreign law in a footnote when, in another case, the majority banned executions of mentally retarded convicts.   

Objecting to this dangerous new precedent, Justice Scalia maintained,  “The views of other nations, however enlightened the justices of this court may think them to be, cannot be imposed upon Americans through the [ European ] Constitution.”   In a recent ABC interview, in response to the question of whether or not the [ American ] Constitution would continue to be relevant in the future, Justice O’Connor said, “Well, you always have the power of entering into treaties with other nations which also become part of the law of the land, but I can't see the day when we won't have a constitution in our nation.”   With that kind of thinking, and with the uncritical enthusiasm in which the president and Congress are embracing foreign treaties, we will have a constitution in name only.   

As if to further demonstrate their belief of the growing irrelevance of US sovereignty and the Constitution, five of the nine justices (O'Connor, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg and Breyer) are attending a forum of foreign judges in Florence, Italy, to discuss and give encouragement to the proposed new European constitution--a document which directly opposes and undermines most of the US Constitutional provisions on limited government.   While there is nothing incriminating in accepting an invitation to this forum, I believe that these justices will primarily contribute favorable comments and praise to the new EU constitution. This dangerous document, as I pointed out in the June 6 brief, is fraught with the allure of false rights, legal doubletalk, feigned allegiance to state sovereignty, and subtly conflicting language meant to create opportunities for the EU courts to rule in favor of EU dominance.   

Purple comments from Apocalyptic Hope

5. "EUROJUST" -- a European-wide legal system ( anti-terrorism ) -- Brussels, Belgium 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurojust cross-border crime

"Eurojust will be a network of expertise offering to magistrates the possibility of co-operating, without obliging them to do so. The creation of the Eurojust is seen as an important step for the creation of a European judicial area, and is set to give a boost, together with Europol, to the anti-terrorist fight."
--eu observer

"EUROJUST"...entirely new legal system...with Europol..Euro-Police Academy...new EU criminal code...public prosecutor...
"The day is fast approaching when you could be arrested by a Europol officer, charged under European law, and tried before an EU court." ( Inquisition- type )
Includes " Home Affairs " (intervention into internal matters)
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003716068008458&rtmo=V6ksSfgK&atmo=gggggg3K&pg=/et/00/10/29/weu129.html n/a
EU also to have an intervention POLICE FORCE of 10,000

EUROJUST
Eurojust, the EU's judicial co-operation unit, is a step closer to becoming an EU federal "Justice Ministry" along the lines of the Justice Department in the United States. The European Parliament approved a proposal stating that Eurojust must become "the nucleus of a future European public prosecution service". The body starts work this year and will consist of a magistrate or prosecutor from each state.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000927104956079&rtmo=0KrKbiiq&atmo=ttttttyd&pg=/et/01/5/19/weuro19.html n/a

Europol at the Hague, Netherlands (Intelligence gathering).....April 30-2002
Staff of 370
THE European Union is rapidly creating a full-scale police and intelligence arm, similar to a joint FBI/CIA wrapped together at Europol headquarters in The Hague.......
Much of the extra money is earmarked for a terrorism task force backed by state-of-the-art computer systems. Willy Bruggeman, the deputy director, said Europol was becoming the biggest intelligence-gathering centre in Europe, with a special focus on the "very serious" risks of a biological attack by Islamic terrorists.
For the first time, MI5 and M16 officers are now stationed permanently in The Hague at what amounts to an embryonic Euro-CIA..........
It is not clear what is meant by terrorism in the EU. Under new rules rushed through after September 11, the term covers the use of "intimidation" (not necessarily violence) to "seriously affect" the political, social, or economic structures of a country, or institution.......
The concern is that Europol, while well-regarded at the moment under its German director, Jurgen Storbeck, could evolve over time into a European political police, gathering intelligence on dissidents and protest groups.......

Having begun as a tiny clearing house for drugs in 1990, the agency is fast acquiring a mandate for everything from car theft to murder, corruption, and even racism and xenophobia, a new EU-wide criminal offence covering "public incitement to discrimination" against religious, national, or ethnic groups; public denial of genocide; and taking part in activities which "involve religious hatred".

"The more power it acquires, the more dangerous it becomes.
SECURITY --- Europol, The Hague, Netherlands
THE European Union is rapidly creating a full-scale police and intelligence arm, similar to a joint FBI/CIA wrapped together at Europol headquarters in The Hague. [ "Security" Center ]
It has a staff of 370, including national liaison officers.
Willy Bruggeman, the deputy director, said Europol was becoming the biggest intelligence-gathering centre in Europe, with a special focus on the "very serious" risks of a biological attack by Islamic terrorists.For the first time, MI5 and M16 officers are now stationed permanently in The Hague at what amounts to an embryonic Euro-CIA.
Defense--- NATO...Brussels, Belgium
There is also a growing military intelligence unit at the EU's defence headquarters in Brussels under the control of Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/27/wpol27.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/04/27/ixworld.html

6. New Belgium Civil Court ( war crimes ) ; a Human Rights court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crimes_Law_(Belgium) Universal jurisdiction

All Global Power ... all global citizens accountable to Belgium ???
"Belgian law probably provides for the most extensive exercise of universal jurisdiction over human rights crimes of any country. Under the Act on the Punishment of Grave Breaches of International Humanitarian Law, first enacted in 1993 and amended in 1999, Belgian courts can try cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by non-Belgians outside of Belgium against non-Belgians, without even the presence of the accused in Belgium."
http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/jura/37n2/lemaitre.htm
Ed Reminder: It was a Belgian imperial court that burned William Tyndale ( "father" of the English Bible ) to the stake, even though England requested that Tyndale be returned to his own native country.
http://www.reformationtours.com/site/490868/page/558815
http://timelines.ws/countries/BELGIUM.HTML

Belgium to try Israel for war crimes in Lebanon, Gaza -- Feb. 22, 2008
A new civil court founded in Belgium by human rights organizations will convene for the first time Friday [ Feb. 22, 2008 ] evening and discuss war crimes Israel had allegedly committee during the Second Lebanon War and war crimes the groups claim it is currently committing in the Gaza Strip
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3509936,00.html

7. Brussels, Belgium Appeals Court
Brussels Belgium is home to NATO and EU headquarters

Belgium Takes Charge of EU
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opini
on/2003/04/03/do0301.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/04/03/ixop.html

Britain: prisoner of EU
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$WCRPCNHW4HOORQFIQ
MGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2003/04/02/weu02.xml

Brussels Power Play a threat to English law
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$WCRPCNHW4HOORQFIQM
GCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2001/03/19/neulaw19.xml

Belgium: "America taking over Arab World"--- March 31, 2003
BRUSSELS: Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, whose country is fiercely opposed to the war on Iraq, slammed the United States as "very dangerous" Sunday, saying it wanted to take over the whole Arab world, the Belga news agency said.
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/mar2003-daily/31-03-2003/world/w5.htm

Wants to try Bush Senior for Gulf War 1--- March 26, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2886931.stm

Wants to try Ariel Sharon
Belgium is the only country which allows its courts to prosecute anyone in the world for war crimes, wherever they were committed.

A 1993 Belgian law that gives local courts jurisdiction over violations of the Geneva war crimes convention allows claimants to seek cases against foreigners suspected of war crimes no matter where they happened. http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/28/sharon.belgium/

No European Public Prsecutor--March 18, 2003
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=10584

Belgium's legal trap for World Leaders
If Belgium decides to prosecute, Israel's prime minister could find himself the subject of an international arrest warrant within a matter of months
Philippe Mahoux, Belgian socialist senator, said: "It needs reflection, maybe find a formula that allows serving heads of state not impunity but something like temporary immunity while they're serving as head of state, that allows them to be prosecuted when their mandate has expired.
"It's a hypothesis, it's the only one I see. All others would have the effect of altering the fundamental basics of our law and I don't think that's possible."
He added: "I don't think we should change the law's universal jurisdiction. We should ensure its continuity.
"In other words, I think for crimes of this nature wherever they are committed, whatever the nationality of the perpetrator, whatever the nationality of the victims we have to be able to prosecute without regard to territorial limits."
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/05/belgium.sharon/index.html

Belgium's Unique Law
What does the law cover?
A: Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
Q: Could the law end up competing with the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague?

A: No, it is not connected with the Hague at all. The Hague tribunal was set up by the United Nations Security Council. It deals with crimes allegedly committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The Hague is a specific tribunal. Belgium has a national law empowering its courts to act outside its borders. http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/05/belgium.kelly/index.html

Serge Brammertz from Belgium new UN prosecutor ( against Serbia ) -- Feb. 25, 2008
Believes in "conditionality" ( Ed: do it or else . Example of conditionality) :
"Due to security concerns, the 27-nation bloc withdrew its staff from the Serb-dominated northern area of Kosovo last week"
http://euobserver.com/9/25714/?rk=1

Other Judicial Systems:

World Court Project (WCP ) and Nuclear Disarmament
www.perc.flora.org/PEN/1998-10/supplement/dewes.html

Why 2 Charters: 1 on "Human Rights" and 1 on "Fundamental Rights" ??
Is one a veiled-European Constitution ???
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,406513,00.html

UN Convention against Transnational Crime (Palermo, Italy)
anti-Mafia Treaty
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,45792,00.html


UNITED NATIONS (UN) Entity in the NWO
also see www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/2bibi.html

UN seeks more JUDGES
http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/icty010309.html

UN setting up US to be tried in the ICC and World Court of Europe
WHEREAS the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 was established by the UN Security Council with "the power to prosecute persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 in accordance with the provisions of" its Statute (Article 1);

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights
http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/Court.html

European Courts have primacy over American judicial system
AND WHEREAS by Article 9 of the said Statute "the International Tribunal and national courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute persons for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1 January 1991" but the International Tribunal "shall have primacy over national courts;"

Mary Robinson points finger at NATO
(she also points finger at Israel)
AND WHEREAS on April 30 in Geneva the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson in a speech to the Commission cited a letter from the Prosecutor in which the Prosecutor stated:

The actions of individuals belonging to Serb forces, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), or NATO may º come under scrutiny, if it appears that serious violations of international humanitarian law have occurred.
http://www.counterpunch.org/complaint.html

ROME STATUTE defines International Criminal Court
LINKED WITH THE UN
http://hei.unige.ch/humanrts/instree/Rome_Statute_ICC/Rome_ICC_part1.html

Rome Statute---ICC...good words....how implemented?
http://www.igc.apc.org/icc/html/icc19990712.html

ICC....ICJ....Ad Hoc Tribunal all located at The Hague, Netherlands
http://www.ichrdd.ca/111/english/commdoc/publications/libertas/Libertas1198/iccStatuteeng.html

ed. note: "ad hoc" means a specific case being handled individually.
The New Court System wants an arbitrary framework, with no specific circumstances hindering its "efficiency". No more "ad hoc".

UN charges against NATO....individuals named
http://www.counterpunch.org/natocrimespr.html

ECHR American Connection Costa Rica (M.S. land)
http://hei.unige.ch/humanrts/iachr/pr6-97.htm

DETAINEES
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (approx. 700 detainees ); no rights ;Camp X-ray, Camp Delta and Camp Iguana (minors)
Afghanistan: Bagram Air Base http://www.msnbc.com/news/984977.asp?0cv=CA01

Iraq: Camp Cropper, Camp Bucca
From Joel Skousen WAB .... September 19, 2003
This week, the US finally admitted to holding over 10,000 Iraqi prisoners, having only admitted to less than half of that number before.  Only a third of the detainees were captured in battle and are actually enemy troops - and these have not been separated from the others and are not accorded their full Geneva Convention rights.  As for the rest, the majority are people who were caught up in the mindless dragnet of security detention, for dozens of reasons long forgotten.  Soldiers have often rounded up everyone in an area where shooting occurred, and often have virtually no basis for holding people specifically.    Yet, once in US custody there is no procedure for getting out.  No one in the US command wants to be responsible for letting anyone go - even the dozens of children and teen-agers separated from their families.  The detainees have no rights and no status, and the Americans are refusing to allow them any significant contacts with those outside prison who may be able to clarify their status or vouch for them. 

This is very much in contrast with the end of World II when the US made every attempt to empty the prison camps as soon as possible (with the notable exception of “Operation Keelhaul” when Eisenhower, at the behest of Gen. Marshall and his pro-Soviet advisors, refused to release Russian and Eastern German prisoners, and drove them back into the Communist Gulag at gunpoint).  The US is acting with tremendous arrogance and distain for international law in the matter of prisoners.  It is a cause of increasing bitterness among the Iraqi people.   

UK : Islands of "Patmos" Sept. 11, 2003 ...unwanted refugees
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees_in_Britain/Story/0,2763,1039063,00.html

"Penal Colonies" --Sept. 5, 2003
The case, if taken up by the court, would raise fundamental questions about whether the US has the legal authority to hold foreigners without the protection of either the US courts or the Geneva convention governing war prisoners.
In strongly worded briefs to the court filed on Monday, lawyers for the detainees argued that if the court refuses to hear the case, it would sanction the creation of "penal colonies" in which foreign prisoners of the US have no legal rights....

"The war on terrorism can be expected to last a very long time," said Mr Wilner. "The standards we set now will prescribe the nation's behaviour for years to come," he wrote.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479533454&p=1012571727162

Illegally holding Detainees
http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield31.htm

Guantanomo Bay's latest camp readies for webcast and TV
Across the bay, a new media center with 22 Internet ports and two plasma television sets is nearly complete. Smith said that a pool of reporters would be allowed into the commission chamber and that others would watch via closed-circuit TV.

The base can house 174 visiting reporters, diplomats, officials and others in the event of trials. But the numbers may not be swelled much by civilian defense attorneys, who can volunteer to assist the assigned military defense counsel at their own expense......

He [ Ken Hurwitz] said that if the United States were to use long-standing legal procedures for handling POWs and trying war criminals, it would not be accused of acting with arbitrary lawlessness.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/6604462.htm

"Camp Five"
http://www.statesman.com/asection/content/auto/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_f3b460c2d416e10d001c

Fifth Terrorist Camp ... Camp V (Cuba) 1,1,00 detainees; no due process -Aug, 25, 2003
Meanwhile, preparations continue for possible military tribunals, with a courthouse and permanent detention center for any convicts. The tribunals also have power to impose the death sentence but officials say they have not built an execution chamber, though they have plans for every possible outcome.....
The chief of the detention mission, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, has said the prisoners are treated humanely and in line with the conventions except they are denied access to lawyers, denied access to U.S. courts
and are being held indefinitely without charges.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3066537,00.html

"Fourth Geneva Conventions"( no humane treatment)
to supercede the authentic Geneva Conventions of 1954 ( humane treatment)

Camp Cropper : Iraq detainees
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, the set of international standards that American authorities in Iraq have decided supersede all other international humanitarian statutes, security detainees can be held indefinitely -- without being charged, without legal counsel and without parental notification. They can appeal only to their captors. Lt. Col. Kirk Warner, a military lawyer known as the deputy judge advocate general, acknowledged that the coalition theoretically could hold a 6-year-old deemed a security threat to the coalition forces without the child's having any of the rights that a 17-year-old suspected of murdering a fellow Iraqi would have.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wokids0819,0,7383961.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines

8,000 Iraqi detainees ??
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=8112&TagID=2

Camp Bucca -- largest POW camp in Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3100027.stm

Britons give up hope: no legal recourse --July 15, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,998406,00.html

Lawyers angry over Detainee Camp
http://truthout.org/docs_03/070603E.shtml

EU protests Camp X-ray --July 7, 2003
The three known defendants are being held with as many as 680 other foreign captives at Camp X-Ray at Washington's Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba where, according to a series of court decisions, none of them enjoys the basic due-process rights required by the U.S. Constitution. Most of the captives there were seized in Afghanistan during and after the U.S.-led military campaign that ousted the Taliban government in late 2001. Some, however, were seized as part of the U.S. "war on terrorism" well after the war and in countries other than Afghanistan.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/oneworld/20030707/wl_oneworld/4536630201057582029&e=2

Confess or die, told to jailed Britons -- July 6, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,992539,00.html

Britons face execution in military trials July 4, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,991669,00.html

Cuba:
US does not respect Geneva Conventions for Guantanamo Bay prisoners --March 31, 2003
641 prisoners held indefinitely ; no charges
http://www.iht.com/articles/91327.html

Detainees have no judicial rights--March 12, 2003
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1045511545178&p=1012571727162

PRISONS

"Passive monitoring"; ankle monitors for stay-at-home prisoners (GPS tracking)--Oct. 7, 2003
http://tampatrib.com/pasconews/MGABC3H2DLD.html

Justice Anthony Kennedy wants end to Federal arbitray sentencing
His speech at the group's annual meeting came shortly after U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft directed federal prosecutors to report on judges who issue lighter sentences than what is recommended by the federal sentencing guidelines.
"Our resources are misspent; our punishments too severe, our sentences too long," Kennedy said.
While the guidelines were and are necessary to reduce the disparity among sentences given by different judges, they have also led to an increase in prison terms, he said.
In 1987, guidelines were adopted to make federal sentencing more uniform, with judges given some discretion. But Congress has also mandated minimum prison terms for some crimes,
forbidding judges to take into account any mitigating factors.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=5&u=/nm/20030810/ts_nm/crime_lawyers_dc

US charged with POW abuse (Iraq)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33771

Flood of parolees hitting the streets Dec 2-2002
After years of punitive atmosphere; no real rehabilitation
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1202/p01s03-usju.html

Texas--leading state in executions--Sept 22-2002
26 already this year 2002
There is no reaction . . . because it is practically a weekly event," said Jim Marcus, executive director of the Houston-based Texas Defender Service, whose lawyers represent prisoners in capital cases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49725-2002Sep21.html

2001..... 6.6 million people incarcerated in the U.S ( 3 times amount of previous year)
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/25/jail.stats/index.html
and here
''The overall figures suggest that we've come to rely on the criminal justice system as a way of responding to social problems in a way that's unprecedented,'' said Marc Mauer, assistant director of the Sentencing Project, an advocacy and research group that favors alternatives to incarceration. ''We're setting a new record every day.''
Texas had more adults under correctional supervision than any other state, 755,100. California was second with 704,900. Texas also had the most adults on probation, 443,684, followed by California at 350,768.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-prison26.html

Prison Rape is no joke ... By Vincent Schiraldi and Mariam M. Bell .....Washington Post
Justice Policy Institute .... one out of every 10 inmates -- "prison control"
http://www.justicepolicy.org/news_wpost_702.htm

Two Million people imprisoned in the United States during 2000
http://www.thestar.com/apps/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=985494692993&call_
page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News
also at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1242000/1242368.stm

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"Is this the man...that opened not the house of his prisoners ??"...... Isaiah 14:16, 17

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"However, I believe it is past time for America to examine its practice of locking people up for non-violent crimes. Even
though the United States is far from being the most populous country in the world,
we incarcerate more people than any other nation.
According to recent reports, there are more than two million people behind bars in U.S. jails and prisons. Many of these people are there for crimes in which no one was physically injured or killed and, therefore, pose little or no threat to society.
It is very interesting that there were no prisons under the Biblical model of justice. Punishment for many non-violent crimes involved mostly financial restitution. Violent crimes mostly resulted in capital punishment.
With the federal government increasingly encroaching into the area of crime and punishment and with an exploding number of new laws continually being created, more and more people are losing their freedom over crimes that have more to do with offending the powers of government than injuring the lives of innocent people. Such a system hardly promotes justice."
From the ChuckWagon---Chuck Baldwin, 2002

"Bush has granted no pardons or commutations since taking office. As of July 31 [2002] he has denied 508 pardon petitions and 1,346 commutation requests."
George Lardner, jr. "Bush Seeks Secrecy for Pardon Discussions"
Washington Post ....Aug 27-2002

Bibles for Prisoners....International Prison Ministry
http://www.ipm-site.com/
also send books of prison testimonies
Box 63, Dallas TX....75221

Spare the rod..spoil the child
Spare the rod...kid goes to jail instead ( for most of his life)
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/gma/goodmorningamerica/gma010731kids_arrests.html

US--Mexican agreement on prisoners.... June 27-2002
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020627/chth018_1.html

From Trafield 2 RR ET MB ..May 5-2002....AUDIO
Great radio broadcast on the ICC and its prophetic significance. All interested parties should hear this! Irvin Baxter's Endtime Ministries
http://www.endtime.com/archive/ram/et04-11-02.ram

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT....the DEATH PENALTY



Now jurors are to decide the punishment---not the guilt--- as formerly--July 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2063000/2063234.stm

Weighing logistics of it, rather than the morality of it......Ashcroft
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31268-2001Jun6.html

Jan 23,2001--Lawyers and Judges to emphasize "justice"
Seeking to improve the quality of justice in the state's troubled death penalty system, the Illinois Supreme Court has adopted new rules that set minimum standards for lawyers, require training for judges and remind prosecutors of their duty to seek justice, "not merely to convict.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-49410,FF.html

PRISONS....they used to be "correctional systems" for rehabilitation.
Are they now draconian abuses of power ? Punitive only ?
Killing the spirit, so as never to rehabilitate?

The time spent in prison is for reflection, leading to repentance and a changed lifestyle,
so that one can return to society as wholesome. and productive.
If a prisoner shows no signs of remorse or repentance (after a sufficient time of evidence) then the humane judgement is capital punishment.
Lifetime incarceration benefits no one, and is cruel and unusual punishment. One will not find lifetime incarceration in the Bible. But one will find Capital punishment in the Bible.

Today, time is used against the prisoner soley for vindictive punishment, which only hardens a criminal...it does not lead him to repentance, nor to a wholesome state.
Prisons today are becoming more and more de-humanizing. Where is the outcry?

All the cruel vindictiveness in the world won't bring back a victim or even right a wrong.
But true and humane rehabilitation can lead a sinner back to God.

The reason why long prison sentences are given is because industry profits from the cheap labor. Our prisons today are labor camps...concentration camps. They are unjustified and need to be rectified. Prisons were never meant to be a form of industry. Once it does, the downfall of a nation is close at hand. Exploitation is always judged.

UN Seeks to monitor Prisons--July 25-2002
NEW YORK — A high-level body of the United Nations last night brushed aside U.S. objections and accepted a new protocol to the international convention on torture that allows U.N. inspectors to monitor the treatment of prisoners inside the borders of sovereign countries
The protocol, approved by the Economic and Social Council, will apply only to those nations that join it.
 It will permit international inspectors to visit civil and military prisons to root out inhumane conditions and punishments....
This amendment truly is a death sentence for the optional protocol," she said.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020725-74498167.htm

DNA samples from prisoners by Force ... April 10-2002
threatened with no release until DNA samples collected
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-dna-inmates0409apr09.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines

Inmates served banned ecoli meat--July 26-2002
BUENA VISTA, Colo. (July 26, 2002 9:44 a.m. EDT) - Hundreds of inmates were served meatloaf that prison officials knew was made with beef recalled because of E. coli contamination, state officials acknowledge.

About 2,500 pounds of recalled ConAgra ground beef was given to inmates at Buena Vista Correctional Complex and two other state prisons since June 5. Only those at Buena Vista were knowingly served the meat, at lunch Saturday, the Department of Corrections said Thursday.
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/478979p-3826110c.html

Life in prison...death-penalty....and "career criminals
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/20/161524.shtml

"Project Exile"....Gun control.....Prison Rape
"The commercials strongly and clearly suggest that prison rape is an expected part of Federal corrections. Does the Colorado Trust support the use of prison rape as an extrajudicial punishment for firearms violation? If not, then why is the Colorado Trust providing nearly a million dollars in funds to produce and show commercials advocating exactly that?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3afbfe4a6fa0.htm

Texas prisons too punitive
http://canoe.ca/CNEWSLaw0101/28_texas-ap.html

Why are prisoners sent out of their state's jurisdiction?
http://www.jsonline.com/news/Metro/apr99/990804statewillstopsendingp.asp

The nature of the US penal system is changing. As prison construction becomes the largest growth industry, a formidable capacity is being built. Prisons are literally becoming the concentration camps of the neoliberal regime, places to isolate those redundant to corporate needs. But never wanting to waste an exploitable resource, the elite are also developing an extensive prison-labor system, renting out inmates to fill lower-rung labor needs. This growing network of slave-labor concentration camps has so far escaped public notice. So, too, has its racial and ethnic bias.
http://www.cyberjournal.org/cj/rkm/TF/may98AbsPower.shtml

Captivity and relocation....transferring thousands of prisoners
http://wire.ap.org/APnews/entry.html?PACKAGEID=defense&SITE=FLTAM

Rehabilitation listed third
http://www.jsonline.com/news/Metro/apr99/990504newleaderpickedforpar.asp

Reality
The primary aim of prisons like ADX-- and those childrens prisons in Georgia and Louisiana-- is to crush the human spirit. It's the logic of corrections that an incapacitated prisoner is not a management problem......
We see in these prisons a reflection of society's degeneration into the heart of darkness
http://home.earthlink.net/~neoludd/prison.html

The following is a quote from www.newsmakersnews.com
concerning what the media doesn't report on.
3)  The fact that the rate of incarceration in the U. S. "has more than doubled since the late 1980s, and the United States now has five times more prisoners per capita than Canada and seven times more than Western Europe....Nearly 90 percent of prisoners are jailed for nonviolent offenses, often casualties of the so-called drug war."

This third media-neglected category merits a little extra attention. Corporate-owned prisons often force prisoners to work for little or no pay thus turning prisoners into virtual slave labor.  Around 50 percent of U. S. prisoners are African-American.

McChesney refers to attorney Barry Scheck's "Actual Innocence" (Doubleday, 2000.)  According the Scheck, DNA testing has overturned scores of convictions and has proved that significant numbers of prisoners are innocent......

We should care because, as Robert McChesney points out, the rapidly growing corporate owned prison-industrial complex indicates human and civil liberties abuses of dimensions that "should be highly disturbing and the source of public debate."

More teenage girls going to jail
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,18936,00.html

Drug chief Walters prefers sentencing offenders to jail terms, rather than rehabilitation
Walters, a veteran of the fight against drugs with an image of favoring prison terms over treatment programs
http://chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV-0105110219,FF.html

Mixed Signals
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/131/nation/Bush_names_law_and_order_drug_chief+.shtml

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS

McVeigh execution to be televised .......may we pray that he repents before crossing over
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010411/pl/ashcroft_mcveigh_3.html

BLOODLUST
School out for "McVeigh Day"......TV-----the ultimate Coliseum
today McVeigh..........tomorow the Christians .............for not being 'politically correct' ???
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=176357

Americans for executions
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20010503_32.html

If-----in the spirit of interfaith inclusiveness--- our president does include Islamic beliefs,
would that bring about beheadings ???
Georgia OKs Guillotines
http://hardtruth.topcities.com/hb1274_guillotine_execution.htm


PUBLIC DISMEMBERMENT ... HUMILIATION

Islamisizing America in Las Vegas
Wants physical damage, humilition, revenge for misdeamors
If this is the start, where will it end ...beheadings for the politically incorrect ??
"The mayor of Las Vegas said yesterday those who deface freeway areas with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
Mayor Oscar Goodman made the comments on the TV program "Nevada Newsmakers" in Reno, the Las Vegas Sun reported
In the old days in France, they had beheading of people who commit heinous crimes," Goodman explained.
Goodman also suggested that whippings or canings should be brought back for children who get into trouble, the local paper reported
"I'm dead serious
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47207
Whatever happened to rehabilitation ??

Our US servicemen are no longer under the jurisdiction of the US, but are under foreign courts
This is NOT what they signed up for.
http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/38448p-618160c.html


The Quality of Mercy...by Wm. Shakespeare
Portia's speech from The Merchant of Venice
http://hometown.aol.com/christianoasis/mercy.html
http://chiq.excelland.com/pms.htm
http://www.discoverynet.com/~kr7277/mercy.html

"For He (God) shall have judgement without mercy,
that hath showed no mercy;
and mercy rejoiceth against judgement" James 2:13

"mercy" killing is not mercy....it is killing

"Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, saith the Lord" Romans 12:19
Justice includes punishment adequate to the crime. Revenge is blood-lust.

Salvation www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm

Bible www.blueletterbible.org