ACLU Needs to Check Its Facts
Posted on December 6, 2005
On October 24, the ACLU made public an analysis of several dozen autopsy reports and related documents obtained from the Pentagon by means of a Freedom of Information Act request for records concerning foreigners detained in Afghanistan and Iraq. The deaths-in-custody of 44 such detainees were detailed in those documents, according to the ACLU’s press release and accompanying explanatory chart. According to the original documents themselves–which are posted on the ACLU’s website–the actual number of deaths involved appears to be only 43. But never mind about that. More to the point–the intended point being, in the words of the press release, that “U.S. operatives tortured detainees to death during interrogation”–was the contention that the Pentagon itself had labeled 21 of these 43 deaths “homicide.”
That number wasn’t even close to accurate. The documents show that military medical examiners attributed 19 of the 43 deaths to natural causes, 2 others to factors as yet “undetermined,” called one further death an “accident,” and left the “manner of death” box in 8 case files entirely blank. There were 13 official “homicides,” not 21. And documents associated with at most 5 of those homicides contain even the vaguest hint of possible wrongdoing by American personnel. The other 8 appear to have been “homicides” only in the technical sense that mortuary physicians use the term–to indicate any nonaccidental death resulting from human agency, whether sinister or innocent.
And what would an entirely innocent homicide look like, you ask? Innocence is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but try this on for size: Two of the very same “homicides” the ACLU has for two months now been content to cite as evidence of “widespread” human rights abuses involve wounded Iraqi insurgents captured after armed engagements with American troops. Both men were evacuated to U.S. hospitals where surgeons attempted to save their lives. But neither man survived his injuries.
I had similar thoughts on the ACLU’s claims of what they were implying as torturing people to death. Did they jump to conclusions or did they exagerate for anti-American propaganda effect? Either way, we know how the MSM will report it.
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From the ACLU Website:
“The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:
“Your First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly. Freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state.
“Your right to equal protection under the law – equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.
“Your right to due process – fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake.
“Your right to privacy – freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.
“We work also to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including Native Americans and other people of color; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor.”
The foreign detainee death investigation appears to at odds with the ACLU’s stated mission of protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans and could constitute a misappropriation of donations. Perhaps the ACLU Board will look into this potential financial impropriety. Right.
Its more spin from the treasonous left. There have even been allegations by Kerry that our troops are entering Iraqi homes illegaly. The media is right. We shouldn’t be in Iraq. We should be putting to death every liberal in this country that has been committing treason since 2000. The list would be long. I can make “providing the enemy with aid and comfort” just as broad as “torture.”
It’s amazing how anyone can believe the left at all considering how many lies they have been caught in, like CBS’s forged Bush documents and CNN’s Tailwind hoax. Yet recently the left wing “Winter Soldier” documentary was shown here in Tucson as if it had never been debunked.
Here’s another outrageous liberal falsehood debunked: White (Phosphorous) Lies by Michael Fumento.
why are you so afraid of a different opinion of things.
is it that you will lose control of people?
is it you just have to push your thoughts on people?
is it that you are so self-centered that you believe only you have the right to live your life the way you wantit at the expense of others?
the u.s.a. is not the land of the free because of people such as yourself that want to run all peoples lives.
Franklin it is the land of the free because of people like Jay, who is in the US Military, it dang not because of any communist lawyer from the ACLU. Them defending religious rights is a laugh. No only are they not defending the religious rights of americans they are violating the religious rights as in the constitution is says congress will make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, the very part they leave out of their lawsuits.
And this surprises you? When Howard Dean, and educated doctor, claims that we are losing the war, it’s clear that disinformation and lying is the modus operundi of America’s leftists.
“We should be putting to death every liberal in this country that has been committing treason since 2000.”
Right, and a “treasonist” is anyone who doesn’t openly offer symbolic rim-jobs to blathering talk-show hosts and born-again warmongers. Were you one of these two wonderful protectors of the Christian faith, apostle?
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/05/mirecki_hospitalized_after_beating/?breaking
No a traitor is someone who gives “aid and comfort or adheres to our enemies”. If leftists and their liberal lapdogs haven’t done so, then they merely get ridiculed on blogs for their stupid assertions.
BV: I guess citing the Constitution would do much good for a liberal like you that would obviously use it as toilet paper.