Comments on: Padilla Verdict Orwellian http://www.bloggernews.net/19521 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:15:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/19521#comment-76950 Nancy Reyes Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:38:08 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19521#comment-76950 If you actually presented the facts of the Padilla case clearly and logically, I might or might not agree with you. But your essay is mainly full of namecalling and you don't supply data to back up your claims for those of us living overseas to know if you are just upset and echoing the Kos echochamber or you are a lawyer whose opinions we should respect. If you actually presented the facts of the Padilla case clearly and logically, I might or might not agree with you.

But your essay is mainly full of namecalling and you don’t supply data to back up your claims for those of us living overseas to know if you are just upset and echoing the Kos echochamber or you are a lawyer whose opinions we should respect.

]]> By: ptosis http://www.bloggernews.net/19521#comment-76613 ptosis Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:50:15 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19521#comment-76613 Padilla's endured torture is the reason why he has not been legally charged with the original dirty-bomb plot indictment. Jose's extremely prolonged isolation and sensory deprivation rendered anything he said as constitutional inadmissible in court. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/351469/jose_padilla_conviction_a_hollow_victory.html "Jardin inferred that the power to torture was regarded as part of the royal prerogative ...inflicting torture at pleasure at the mere instance of the Crown, has always appeared to me to be a very remarkable instance of the opposition of a prerogative to law-of the existence in former times of a power above the law, controlling and subverting the law, and thus rendering it practical application altogether inconsistent with its theoretical excellence.: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/294075/torture_and_the_law_of_proof_.html Padilla’s endured torture is the reason why he has not been legally charged with the original dirty-bomb plot indictment. Jose’s extremely prolonged isolation and sensory deprivation rendered anything he said as constitutional inadmissible in court.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/351469/jose_padilla_conviction_a_hollow_victory.html

“Jardin inferred that the power to torture was regarded as part of the royal prerogative …inflicting torture at pleasure at the mere instance of the Crown, has always appeared to me to be a very remarkable instance of the opposition of a prerogative to law-of the existence in former times of a power above the law, controlling and subverting the law, and thus rendering it practical application altogether inconsistent with its theoretical excellence.:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/294075/torture_and_the_law_of_proof_.html

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