From telegraph.co.uk: UK government suppressed evidence on Binyam Mohamed torture because MI6 helped his interrogators.The Government suppressed evidence on the torture of terror suspect Binyam Mohamed because the documents reveal that MI6 helped his interrogators.
Mr Mohamed, 30, an Ethiopian, was granted refugee status in Britain in 1994. He was picked up in Pakistan in 2002 on suspicion of involvement in terrorism, rendered to Morocco and Afghanistan, tortured and then sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2004. All terror charges against him were dropped last year. [ READ MORE ] + See Video Below
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22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found [/caption] By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush......
Mr. Levy has turned the local police into la migra — resulting in immigrants becoming the mute prey of criminals. Steve Levy, like Lou Dobbs of CNN, tolerates the poisonous notion that ‘illegal‘ is a stain that can never be erased, with no path to atonement, then you turn the undocumented into a permanent class of presumed criminals who have no rights. He is in complete dis-regard of the fact that undocumented immigrants are human beings, and do have rights. They have the right to be paid for their labor, to speak freely and to congregate in public places without fear. — New York Times Editorial
A New York Times Editorial
A Catastrophic Silence
Suffolk County executive - Steve Levy [Enlarge] The killing of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant, on Long Island this month brought with it a cruel blessing. From a shocking crime — an assault by a gang of boys accused of making a hobby of hunting Latinos — came a chance for a stricken, divided community to bind old wounds and to bury anger.
Instead, the moment is collapsing into the same old shouting. Advocates for immigrants are condemning the Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, as somehow complicit in the killing for his rigid devotion to immigration enforcement. Mr. Levy is lashing back and trying to distribute blame fairly. He wonders, for example, how a gang out of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ could have run free for so long, firing BB’s and hateful slurs at random victims, jumping and punching them for sport.
Why, he asks, were their friends and acquaintances silent? It’s a fair question, but there is another silence Mr. Levy should focus on.
The silence that echoes most painfully is that of the Latino victims of these and other hidden crimes. Mr. Lucero’s death has set loose a flood of stories of abuse and harassment. A police precinct commander lost his job over his handling of two other attacks against Latino men that fatal day, an acknowledgment that in Suffolk, equal protection may not always apply to everyone.
Mourners Grieve for Slain Immigrant
Suffolk is not the only place with hate crimes or fearful immigrants. The same silence ruled in Postville, Iowa, where children worked brutal hours on a slaughterhouse killing floor. It hung over a factory in New Bedford, Mass., that systematically cheated workers of wages and the Louisiana shipyards where legal guest workers were held in modern-day indentured servitude.
The Racist ‘Republican’ Killers
Jeffrey Conroy, 17, foreground, and other teens arrested in a hate crime murder, are led out of the Fifth Precinct in Patchogue, N.Y., for arraignment on gang assault charges in connection with the death of a 37-year old immigrant. Police said the seven high school students looking “to beat up some Mexicans” attacked the immigrant from Ecuador who worked in a dry cleaners shop. According to police, Conroy fatally plunged a knife into the man’s chest him during the brawl.
The silence of undocumented immigrants is the catastrophic silence of people taught by legislative harassment and relentless stereotyping to live mute and afraid.
Mr. Levy sees no role for himself in this drama.
‘Since when is enforcing the law seen as something negative and inflammatory?’ he asked his critics this week.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that the number of hate groups targeting Latinos and immigrants has increased over the the last four years.
The reasons are clear: The climate created by paramilitary raids that treat workers and families like criminals; the unconscionable spread by some politicians and media personalities of lies and distortions that dehumanize immigrants, and the growing climate of hate surrounding the immigration debate have proven to be ideal breeding ground for racism. — [ MORE HERE ]
References:
1.Grand Jury Indicts 7 Teens in Immigrant Killing — Seven teenagers learned Friday that they had been indicted in the fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant who police say was targeted because he was Hispanic, but they must wait to hear the specific charges.
4. Key Findings In New Report: Immigrants Contribute $10.6 Billion to Long Island — Long Island WINS released a new report yesterday entitled “Strengthening Long Island: The Economic Contributions of Immigrants to Nassau and Suffolk.”
5.News about Marcelo Lucero — including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
6. Related Content from NYDailyNews.com — Marcelo Lucero
7.Fear & Loathing in Prime Time: Immigration Myths and Cable News — “Number one, the illegal aliens shouldn’t be here. And number two, the culture from which they come is a lot more violent than the USA.” — The O’Reilly Factor, January 15, 2007
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