[kitchencabinetforum] AMERICAN JUSTICE MIGHT DETERIORATE TO KANGAROO JUSTICE OF GREECE!

Libertarian Party Chairman Mark Hinkle resents the indefinite detention provisions of Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Hinkle points out the Obama administration has already claimed that the president has the authority to kill Americans overseas, if he believes they are terrorists. Now, in the latest National Defense Authorization Act, Congress is trying to give the president power to imprison Americans indefinitely, without charges or respect for habeas corpus, if he claims they are terrorists.

Hinkle laments that Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have already joined hands to pass the bill. This contempt for our rights is outrageous. Any member of Congress who supports that provision is grossly violating his oath to uphold the Constitution.

Hinkle asserts that if the president thinks you are a terrorist, let him present charges and evidence to a judge. He has no authority to lock you up without any judicial review, just because he and Congress believe he should have unlimited power.

That is the kind of power held by tyrants in totalitarian regimes. It has no place in the United States. American justice might deteriorate to the miseravle level of the Kangaroo Justice of Greece! Venitis declares Greece is a kangaroo valley! There is no justice, and perjurers are a dime a dozen. Dissident bloggers are persecuted, and Graecokleptocrats enjoy impunity. Election to a public office means a license to receive kickbacks, provide sinecures to kith and kin, terrorize Greeks, and do as you please. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Greece has become a Kangaroo Valley, violating basic human rights and Article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty, but nobody gives a damn. We cannot understand why the European Commission tolerates political persecution and freakish Kangaroo Justice within the borders of the European Union and cannot refer the Greek government to the Court of Justice of the European Union for violating the Lisbon Treaty. We cannot understand why the European Ombudsman cannot protect Greeks from appalling violations of Article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty by the Greek government. If the European Union cannot protect Greeks from the repressive Greek government, who will? http://venitism.blogspot.com

In October of 2010, an American used as pseudonym the name of Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece. The culprit did not violate any law because, according to the Supreme Court of USA, anybody can use any pseudonym or pen name. For example, thousands of people use Obama's name as a pseudonym. It's considered an honor, not a forgery.

Only spoofing is forgery. The unknown culprit would have used spoofing if she used Xenogiannakopoulou's email which is marilxen@otenet.gr. Instead she used mariliza.xenogiannakopoulou@yahoo.com which is not Xenogiannakopoulou's email. The culprit posted on an American Yahoo Group with her pseudonym using a kind of literature called Lyric Essay, which uses emotion and color to enlighten a text.

Some malevolent characters misinformed Xenogiannakopoulou that the culprit was Basil Venitis, just because his name was mentioned in the post! As a result of this misinformation, on October 18, 2010, a gang of brutal cybercops of Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) broke into Venitis's home in Athens and into his college office, and stole his computers, software, files, documents, and personal data.

The cybercops locked Venitis in jail for a night, they humiliated him with handcuffs, fingerprints, mug shots, and lies, leaked false information to the media parrots, and the Greek government initiated sham court proceedings for a stack of charges, including forgery and treason! There was neither pillow nor toilet facility in his jail cell. Venitis, a distinguished professor had to urinate in a bottle! Venitis, a 65 year old with heart problems, was not allowed to keep his hypertension pills with him. There was neither toilet paper nor soap in the whole CCU jail facility.

But that's not the end of the story. Venitis's nerves are broken by no accuser showing up during his court trial! The judge always has to postpone the trial for another day and so it goes ad infinitum. Meanwhile, Venitis always has to show up and waste the whole day waiting as there is no definite timing for the hearing, but only a day. Venitis and his lawyer have to be in the courtroom the whole day until the judge calls his name. Then the judge calls the name of the accuser, nobody replies, and the judge postpones the trial for another day. This has happened five times so far! This is a real Greek tragedy! Justice delayed is no justice, justice perpetuated is hell.

The Greek government uses charge stacking to persecute dissident bloggers. Charge stacking is the ability to charge a large number of overlapping crimes for a single course of conduct. Combining crimes enables prosecutors to get convictions in cases where there is no misconduct at all. By stacking enough charges, including treason, Greek prosecutors jack up the threat value of a trial against a dissident blogger, even if the government's case is very weak. Charge stacking is terror. The Greek government cannot terrorize the Greek people.

Persecuting dissident bloggers, the Greek government violates Article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty, which states the European Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, and respect for human rights. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, nondiscrimination, tolerance, and justice prevail.

Papademos cannot succeed without justice. Prevalent is his inability to rein in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), which persecutes dissident bloggers, using the Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) as a political tool. MFA terrorizes the blogosphere with charge stacking. Kangaroo justice is the Achilles Heel of Papademos. If Greeks are not treated fairly, how could they support him?

The Libertarian Party opposes terrorism. Libertarians also believe their government should stop taking actions that provoke terrorism. Libertarians want to end military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other countries, and they want to repeal the Patriot Act.

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