Since Congress recently handed Bush the power to identify American citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely without charge, it's worth examining the administration's record of prisoner abuse as well as the building of stateside detention centers.
As Texas governor (from 1995-2000) Bush oversaw the executions of 152 prisoners, and thus became the most-killing governor in the history of the United States. Ethnic minorities, many of whom did not have access to proper legal representation, comprised a large percentage of those Bush put to death, and in one particularly egregious example, Bush executed an immigrant who hadn't even seen a consular official from his own country (as is required by the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, to which the US was a signatory). Bush's explanation: "Texas did not sign the Vienna Convention, so why should we be subject to it?"
Governor Bush also flouted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by choosing to execute juvenile offenders, a practice shared at the time only by Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Significantly, in 1998 a full 92% of the juvenile offenders on Bush's death row were ethnic minorities.
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http://www.heatherwokusch.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=78
Please also see:
CALL FOR A ‘BROOMSTICK REVOLUTION’, from Harvey Arden
and Grandma Edna Gordon, plus a Beginning + UPDATES
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2644&blz=1
America the Tyranny; notes Manuel Valenzuela, of thepeoplesvoice.org
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2643&blz=1
As Texas governor (from 1995-2000) Bush oversaw the executions of 152 prisoners, and thus became the most-killing governor in the history of the United States. Ethnic minorities, many of whom did not have access to proper legal representation, comprised a large percentage of those Bush put to death, and in one particularly egregious example, Bush executed an immigrant who hadn't even seen a consular official from his own country (as is required by the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, to which the US was a signatory). Bush's explanation: "Texas did not sign the Vienna Convention, so why should we be subject to it?"
Governor Bush also flouted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by choosing to execute juvenile offenders, a practice shared at the time only by Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Significantly, in 1998 a full 92% of the juvenile offenders on Bush's death row were ethnic minorities.
(PLEASE CONTINUE !)
http://www.heatherwokusch.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=78
Please also see:
CALL FOR A ‘BROOMSTICK REVOLUTION’, from Harvey Arden
and Grandma Edna Gordon, plus a Beginning + UPDATES
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2644&blz=1
America the Tyranny; notes Manuel Valenzuela, of thepeoplesvoice.org
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2643&blz=1