Spanish investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzon has passed a 98-page complaint to prosecutors that accuses former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and five others violations of international law, including torture.
For months, many of us have been complaining about President Barack Obama’s blocking of any war crimes investigation despite the confirmation of a torture program under President Bush. While saying repeatedly that “no one is above the law,” Obama has acted in precisely the opposite way: guaranteeing that former President Bush and others are above the law. This seems to confirm reports (denied by Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder) that they promised various people before the start of the Administration that they would never allow a criminal investigation.
One of the issues raised by Obama’s refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to look into these well-documented allegations is that it leaves the United States open to international intervention. While there is an obligation for the United States to act under our treaties, a failure to act allows other countries to intervene to uphold international law. This puts the United States on the same moral plane as Serbia and other countries that shielded allegedly war criminals. This is precisely the problem that we have discussed in prior interviews.
The story here should not be the actions of the Spanish, but the lack of action by Obama. The United States will now be in a position of trying to block this inquiry while blocking any criminal investigation at home. That is how Obama is implicating himself in these violations and making himself an accomplice and accessory after the fact.
While Obama’s political advisers have told him that it is simply too politically risky to allow the enforcement of these laws, the moral response is obvious. This is simply not Obama’s decision. He should leave it to a special prosecutor to decide on the evidence if anyone can be charged. He can use the Spanish proceeding to say that the United States will conduct its own criminal investigation — not another meaningless commission but an investigation by a special prosecutor.
The Spanish complaint names Gonzales John C. Yoo, Douglas J. Feith, William J. Hayes II, Jay S. Bybee and David S. Addington. Bybee was put on the Ninth Circuit despite objections from civil libertarians of his role in the torture program. Once again, the democrats refused to use their power to block the nomination. He now has life tenure on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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I think Obama is wrong in refusing to appoint a special prosecutor. 1. it’s our law 2. we have to restore our credibility in the world and ignoring war crimes is not the way to do it and 3. the people are ahead of Obama on this issue, not behind him. I’m certain his political advisors and he knows this to be the case. I don’t believe his wealthy patrons want these prosecutions to proceed but the majority of the US population does. Why is he following his patrons instead of the law?
Secondly, there are statute of limitations coming up on some of these actions (see ACLU letter to Eric Holder on their website for that information). It seems that at least part of the strategy is to run out the clock–now this will be more difficult.
Philippe Sands who wrote “Torture Team” was intimately involved in this investigation. He’s done his homework and I’m certain he and the other people working on this case have a good one.
The Obama DOJ has already defended Alberto Gonzales in a prior case. I hope that people put a lot of pressure on Obama to follow the rule of law and appoint a truly independent prosecutor. I am really hoping that he does not continue to ignore or support people who very likely did commit war crimes. To do so, violates are own laws, trashes our position in the world and betrays our people at home.
Good on you Spain.
I also think this is a good time to re-iterate the advice of several people of the past few months. Write and call every politician that you get to vote for and demand that this country starts holding those in high places accountable for their crimes.
Others and I appreciate your courage and conviction for your statements regarding the war crimes of the Bush Administration.
As a Republican, the principal reason I voted for Mr. Obama was that I thought a former constitutional lawyer would return the U.S.A. to its rightful place under the rule of law based on the sound principles of U.S. Constitution. I also supported Mr. Holder for the AG position because of the comments he made during his confirmation hearings. However, both Obama and Holder appear more adept at politics than legal scholarship.
Gyges 1, March 30, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Good on you Spain.
‘I also think this is a good time to re-iterate the advice of several people of the past few months.’ …
…Write and call every politician that you get to vote for and demand that this country starts holding those in high places accountable for their crimes.
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There are no ’several people’ – it’s only me, Gyges, who has been asking people to contact their local elected representatives instead of doing what Jill has been proposing for months on end.
Let me explain my position this way.
If you want to help – ‘Great, WE could use the help!’
But if you are not going to ‘help’, then get the frick
out of the way. It’s that simple.
p.s. We don’t need you OR your negativity! Just get out of the frickin’ way!!!!!!!!!
Patty C.,
How quickly you forget.
Patty C,
As tough as this is for me to say to you, Ma’am, you are way out of line. Calling another regular “trash” is unconscionable.
Professor Turley has gone out of his way to remove the real spam “trash” to make this site more tolerable and he has specifically asked you and some others to be more cordial. For you to continue to attack Jill seems very disrespectful to Prof Turley and he is a special individual.
Please just ignore Jill, if you must, but please do not continue to demean her for simply expressing an opinion. You are a valued and intelligent person but you are demeaning your own chosen medical profession with such nonsensical attacks. During my time as an Army medic, I never heard such verbal attacks emanate from a physician.
Respectfully submitted, but compellingly so.
Patty C:
I understand that you disagree with Jill, but please we need to avoid the name calling. I deleted a couple entries with personal attacks under our long civility rule. I would appreciate your help. Thanks.
len,
aren’t you forgetting that Obama has to commit a war crime before he has to worry like the Bushites!
One thing I do disagree with Ron Suskind and Rachael Maddow on is that we now must wait for Dawn Johnson to be confirmed before we may proceed to war crimes investigations. That just doesn’t track. The law is clear right now. There is no need for her to be in place to take action. Obama can, and should, appoint an independent special prosecutor whether Dawn Johnson is in place or not.
Jill,
I didn’t see the Suskind/Maddow program, but I have been anxiously awaiting for the confirmation of Dawn Johnson because she was one of the most outspoken critics of the Bush torture regime. I think she will a driving force in getting the Obama administration on the right track.
len,
Please provide a link. Thanks.
Baltasar Garzón is a respected jurist who led the successful investigation into the civil rights abuses of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and secured his arrest by British authorities while Pinochet was traveling in London. He also spearheaded the GAL death squad investigation in the Basque region of Spain. A fearless and incorruptible advocate for international human rights, Garzon is a formidable threat to the Bush under-rock dwellers who must now fear leaving the country. Ironic, isn’t it, that we have become the new Argentina harboring all manner of right wing fascists from the reach of law. Maybe that will change with Judge Garzon. Obama may be faced with calling for an investigation of his own, or the humiliating prospect of extraditing senior officials of the previous Administration to Spain as he is required to do under the United Nations Convention against Torture signed by the US in 1988, and ratified in 1994.
Read it for yourself:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cat.htm
JT, Good work tonight — as usual — on Countdown.
Mespo,
Your comparison to Argentina is an interesting one. It is amazing how low we have sunk during the Bush years.
Patty C:
As you know, I am second to none in my appreciation and admiration for your prolific contributions -scientific, gastronomic, political, and others just too numerous to catalog– but even I must say that SOME of the commentary about our fellow and diligent blogger Jill went over the top. Jill may sound like a broken record on rare occasion, but I had hoped we could do a “Rodney King” and just get along. We are, after all, substantially on the same side. Seeing that we can’t is disheartening, especially since you and I occasionally provide the senior perspective on the blog, and you are certainly the “master of the rolls” when it comes to the rich history this blog enjoys in its short but important history. I can honestly say I feel that I have missed something each day that I do not make it to this site (which I am sure some here would hope is a feeling I would suffer more often given my own propensity to snap when a gentle scold would do.) In any event, I am just hoping we can get past all the personal animus to discuss things the way we usually do with some insight, biting wit, and the sense that we are all fighting the good fight.
End of sermon by unworthy preacher.
rafflaw:
When you have to look up to a banana republic, you really have fallen. Apparently that’s the true Bush legacy:
http://johngaltfla.com/blog2/2008/12/16/when-argentina-calls-us-a-banana-republic/
Hmmm: wonder what this has to do with it all:
Judge Garzón to answer allegations against him this weekend
Mar 13, 2009 – 6:43 AM
Baltasar Garzón – EFE
National Court judge, Baltasar Garzón, who is currently taking part in a seminar in Guatemala, has said that when he gets back to Spain he will speak about the allegations of him not declaring his earnings in the United States when on a year’s sabbatical there.
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_20447.shtml
will the real Garzon stand up:
He rarely voices his opinions in public, but he did publicly declare his opposition to Spain’s involvement in the US-led war in Iraq.
He is also known to harbour political ambitions and spent months as a minister in a previous Socialist government.
He walked out, saying he was not being given the tools to do the job. Party sources said he was upset about being passed over for higher posts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3085482.stm
Frontier Justice From Spain
By Peter Hannaford on 3.26.09 @ 6:06AM
In recent years human rights activists have pushed the concept of “universal jurisdiction,” by which judges in one country can assert authority to prosecute any offense regardless of where it took place.
The zealots have found their champion in one Baltasar Garzon, a judge on the Spanish National Court. A socialist activist as a college student, Garzon at age 32 became the youngest magistrate on the court. Now 53, he has spent many of the intervening years practicing what can only be called judicial megalomania.
Thriving on publicity, Judge Garzon has, at various times, gone after former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the late former Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet, 98 former Argentine military members (despite an amnesty enacted after the end of that country’s “dirty war”). In 2003 he even indicted Osama bin Laden and 34 other alleged terrorists, a few of whom were in Spanish custody. He charged them with being members of a terrorist gang and for being involved in the 9/11 attacks, rather than any terrorist acts in Spain. The proper jurisdiction for anything involving 9/11 would have been the United States. As desirable as it would have been to capture and try bin Laden, only 18 of the defendants were convicted of having terrorist links and none with 9/11.
Late last year, Judge Garzon reopened the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, by accusing the late Generalissimo Franco (dead 33 years) and 44 of his army and Falange Party officials of war crimes. Inasmuch as a 1977 amnesty sought to put that war to rest through national reconciliation, cooler heads prevailed. On the eve of a National Court ruling that he had no jurisdiction, the publicity-seeking Garzon dropped his probe.
Last year, Judge Garzon found a new, much larger target: alleged polluters of the atmosphere He said he would fight global warming by bringing them to justice wherever they were. He hasn’t yet turned this plan into action. Instead, his most recent judicial escapade involves two Russian citizens, one of whom has lived peacefully on the Spanish island of Majorca for a decade.
Last June he initiated the arrest of Gennady Petrov. The Guardia Civil, with helicopters overhead and tipped off media outlets present, surrounded Petrov’s house, grilled him and his wife for four hours, carted off jewelry and other valuables, took two automobiles and threw Petrov in jail. Two days later he was charged with money laundering, falsification of documents and violations of tax law. Ironically, Petrov had moved to Spain to escape being a possible target of Russian mafiosi. He had no criminal record in Spain or Russia. His lawyer contends that the court has produced insufficient evidence to substantiate its indictment and shows no inclination to bring Petrov to trial (under Spanish law, he may be held for up to four years before being tried).
In October, Judge Garzon stretched “universal jurisdiction” once again. He issued a summons to appear for questioning for Vladislav Reznik, a member of the Russian State Duma (legislature), for alleged connections to organized crime. Reznik lives in Russia, but has a vacation home, purchased from Petrov, on Majorca. This residence was raided and some contents seized. Reznik chairs the Duma’s Financial Markets Committee and is a reputable citizen. Viktor Pleskachevsky, chairman of another Duma committee, said of the raid, “As the search [of Reznik's Majorca house] was conducted within the framework of a criminal case unknown to us, in the attendance of the media, and Judge Garzon is well known for hearing political cases, we have grounds to suspect that it is a politically motivated action.”
For the moment, Judge Garzon is distracted. He took a sabbatical in 2005-06 to teach at New York University and was paid $200,000 in addition to his judge’s salary. Spain’s judicial oversight board claims he did not advise its members of his double-dipping arrangement, something that is required by law. The board’s investigators must decide by mid-April whether to drop the case or penalize Garzon.
If it is dropped, the world can expect this judicial megalomaniac to look for other tempting targets, such as U.S. military leaders or government officials, past or present, who carry out policies he considers “war crimes.”
Note Mr. Garzon is in tax trouble in Spain:
“For the moment, Judge Garzon is distracted. He took a sabbatical in 2005-06 to teach at New York University and was paid $200,000 in addition to his judge’s salary. Spain’s judicial oversight board claims he did not advise its members of his double-dipping arrangement, something that is required by law. The board’s investigators must decide by mid-April whether to drop the case or penalize Garzon.
If it is dropped, the world can expect this judicial megalomaniac to look for other tempting targets, such as U.S. military leaders or government officials, past or present, who carry out policies he considers “war crimes.””
“but he did publicly declare his opposition to Spain’s involvement in the US-led war in Iraq.”
Well, I applaud him for that alone.
“Thriving on publicity, Judge Garzon has, at various times, gone after former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger”
Too bad he could not get that rascal; no one is perfect at getting all the liars, criminals, and politicians who thrive on allowing our government to kill other peoples who do not follow their brand of distorted democracy.
tiller:
If you can’t defend the actions of the accused I suppose the answer to the weaker mind is to attack the judge and his investigation. Let us know how that works out.
First of all, my best wishes to Mr. Turley. I for one appreciate the first-rate work he has done on behalf of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, the Palestinian computer science professor who has been repeatedly and mercilessly harassed and jailed by our government’s overzealous prosecutors.
And second, with all due respect to tiller, the actions of Judge Garzon should be applauded and encouraged. The targets of his past investigations, including Augusto Pinochet & Henry Kissinger, are responsible for untold numbers of dead civilians and incidents of torture. Our treaty obligations are binding, but it seems that only a very few people (such as Baltazar Garzon) have the courage and integrity to step up to the plate and truly enforce the law.
By the way, the more we get to know Mr. Obama, the less courage and integrity he appears to have. He ought to have instructed his Attorney General, on the very day of his Senate confirmation, to appoint a special prosecutor with the mandate to uncover those very real crimes, war crimes and assaults on our constitution which have taken place since November 2000.
Jill,
Under the theory that it is always nice to tell people you appreciate them and their work. I would just like to go on the record and tell you that I enjoy reading your comments. I believe your sincerity is genuine; you are fighting the good fight; and it is not in vain!
Also, as one who could at best be described as a “lurker” (albeit very a very regular one) as opposed to a “regular”
you are one (along with some of the others) for whom I have always found it easy to engage in shared rapport. I am grateful for your always welcoming/encouraging way with newcomers; and with those who may be some times reticent to participate.
Please don’t change!
FFLEO, Jonathan, mespo, CEJ and other people–thank you for defending my right to speak up on this blog free of personal attacks. I believe mespo is correct to say we are all on the same side, even though we may strongly disagree about Obama’s actions.
CEJ,
Thanks for the affirmative support. It means a great deal to me. The attacks were getting very ugly and they were harmful to me as a person.
“There are no ’several people’ – it’s only me, Gyges, who has been asking people to contact their local elected representatives instead of doing what Jill has been proposing for months on end.”
Patty,
I wrote “how quickly they forget” as a humorous reminder to you that I have been pushing making phone calls for a long time and have reported calls I have made. So it’s not
only you that has been doing it. That though is neither here nor there if you think about it because I don’t feel that I am in a contest with anyone here to prove my “brilliance.” That isn’t what this blog is about in my opinion.
Secondly, your response to me brought Jill into the picture and implied I was afraid to disagree with her. You know that isn’t true because you even commented on an exchange I had with Jill a month ago and Jill and I frequently have disagreed viz-a-viz the President. That said, however, Jill was the first person to warmly welcome my comments, as was Mespo. Perhaps I never would have tarried were it not for her welcoming attitude.
I respect you and in some ways I believe that we share agreement on many issues. Certainly, although I don’t know your specialty you seem a Doctor I would want go to if I was in need. Considering my health history and some MD’s I’ve encountered, that is a high compliment if you can take it in. We all react to certain people negatively at first glance, or even after many encounters, but a steady diet of attack becomes wearisome.
For instance there are some here who are far more sanguine then I am regarding Israel, yet I find myself in agreement with them on other important issues. However, that’s true also of the friends I have socially. One of the best and longest I’ve had is a die-hard Bush Republican. When we communicate you can be sure it’s not about politics, yet this person has shown me considerable kindness and care in my life and I therefore treasure his friendship. We all don’t “hang out” together here and yet I feel I’ve made some valuable friendships, albeit in cyberspace. I’ve no doubt that dinner and drinks with many here would be a pleasurable experience. We seem to have become the “regulars” here and I like that, we will disagree on occasion, it would be nice though to agree to disagree rather than to continue personal animus.
Patty,
I wasn’t aware that informing those whose job it is to govern on my behalf that I expect them to play by the rules was being “negative.”
The Obama administration exists to serve the American people, not vice versa. I can think of few things more in the interest of the American people than an investigation into what are probably some of the most blatant and horrific crimes ever committed by those supposedly representing our will.
I know there are many things the administration has to handle, I also know that there is a special part of the administration whose sole job is the sort of investigation we’re calling for. That would be enough for most of us right now (assuming it was an actual investigation with actual negative consequences for those involved in the crime), to see the wheels of justice START to grind slow and fine…
I wasn’t willing to “agree or shut up” for the past 8 years, and I’m not willing to start now.
Jill,
I missed whatever comments started the out pouring of support for you, so can’t speak directly too them. I just wanted to add my 2 cents worth: I’ve met few people as willing to actually listen to those they disagree with than you. Your intellectual curiosity is something I aspire too.
Gyges,
Thank you for what you said. I agree stongly with your statement to Patty. JT said Obama has made a deal to protect Cheney and Bush. I believe his analysis is correct, otherwise Cheney would not be on TV admitting to war crimes. Without this deal bush and cheney would have moved to a country that has no extradition treaty with the US and happily be enjoying their blood money much as other disgraced dictators do. Yet, they are still here, and Cheney, is quite vocal in his presence. This can only happen under the protection of Obama (as JT makes clear). Therefore, if there is to be any hope of prosecutions in the US, we must make it clear to Obama that his protection of war criminals is not only unacceptable, but truthfully, puts him in danger of charges concerning obstruction of justice (also as JT pointed out). Staying silent about this issue is not a option for me or any person of conscience. How one chooses to protest is a matter of personal choice. Remaining silent is complicity. I really do believe the statement that the best way for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing. Again, thank you for your kind support.
If Judge Garzon was a double dipper and did not report income per Spain’s tax law, then he should pay the full taxes and the full penalties, unlike our own Treasury Secretary Geithner and some of our congresspersons who are triple dippers, or worse. However, his tax problems, if any and if corrected, should not affect his legal duties.
I have previously acknowledged that Jill’s instincts have been more accurate than my own regarding the intentions of the Obama administration on the war crimes issue. I applaud the action of the Spanish courts. If we must be shamed into enforcing the same laws that we demand others honor, so be it. Spain’s efforts will create an apoplectic reaction on the part of the right-wing. After all, how dare any other country interfere with the internal affairs of the United States? Is this not a direct attack on our sovereignty? I could probably write scripts for Hannity, et al (somebody has to, after all). But it is bald-faced hypocrisy to pledge a restoration of our moral leadership in the world if we attempt to make an exception for the morals of our own leaders. It should not have come to this. Appointment of a special prosecutor as soon as possible following the inauguration would have been the right thing to do. There are obviously advisers to the president who have cautioned that doing so would erode some of the political “capital” needed to ensure passage of his economic legislation. It is bad advice.
Just signed the ACLU petition for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Bush/Cheney abuses. Try it:
http://www.aclu.org
Thanks for the info, Mike. I just signed.
There are obviously advisers to the president who have cautioned that doing so would erode some of the political “capital” needed to ensure passage of his economic legislation. It is bad advice.
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No, it isn’t!
Jill,
I agree with your writing. I am confused a litle though about Mr. Turley stating Obama is an accessory on the one hand but allowing an opening for an Int’l. court by not appointing a special look-see. I fear that duplicity will always reign and that the application of the law concerning these individuals will be lost-adrift permanently in a sea of words. It would be nice if we could reconstitute ourselves visa vis the law. And, this would be a good place to start. How else can we honestly even speak of going forward?
I am always amazed – no matter how clear I am or how clear I have been here, several of you still manage to get it ( and me) wrong.
The main thing I consistently advocate is to continue stating your expectations and making your requests to your elected representatives in the Congress and locally.
I am not emotionally or psychologically invested in protesting or staging a revolution against the present administration, and I don’t believe Barack Obama is just another slime-ball politician.
I wish Bush and Cheney had been impeached, while in office, but they weren’t.
I am weary of hearing people, like Jill, who are full of harangue and do nothing else but spew anger and disappointment wherever they go.
Specifically, it may make the blog-bitchers feel better, but it accomplishes nothing of significance in the end.
I experience it as toxic energy and nothing more…
Robert,
This is an explanation from Constitutional law scholar David Cole.
“…any country has the right to prosecute certain war crimes and crimes against humanity, no matter where or by whom they were committed, so long as it observes the fundamental requirements of a fair trial…{there is also}
..the principle that universal jurisdiction should not be exercised as long as domestic remedies are available.”
David Cole also quoted from Eric Holder in the same article, written Jan. 15, 2009:
“Here’s what Eric Holder, whom Obama will nominate as attorney general, said several months ago:
Our government authorized the use of torture, approved of secret electronic surveillance against American citizens, secretly detained American citizens without due process of law, denied the writ of habeas corpus to hundreds of accused enemy combatants and authorized the procedures that violate both international law and the United States Constitution…. We owe the American people a reckoning.”
I’m afraid of the same things you are.
Mike Spindell,
I do not sign many petitions but I just signed this one. Thanks for the link.
http://www.aclu.org
Bad day for the newly dubbed “Bush Six.” All to be indicted by Spanish Court on charges of war crimes. First no one will hire ‘em now this.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-13/the-bush-six-to-be-indicted/
I ‘ll take Spanish justice when ours refuses to act. Yeehaw!!
Mespo, thanks for the link to an interesting article.
Quotes from the link:
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“But prosecutors will also ask that Judge Garzón, an internationally known figure due to his management of the case against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and other high-profile cases, step aside”
“The Spanish prosecutors advised the Americans that they would suspend their investigation if at any point the United States were to undertake an investigation of its own into these matters. They pressed to know whether any such investigation was pending. These inquiries met with no answer from the U.S. side.”
“Spanish officials are highly conscious of the political context of the case and have measured the Obama administration’s low-key reaction attentively.”
“The reaction on American editorial pages is divided—some questioning sharply why the Obama administration is not conducting an investigation, which is implicitly the question raised by the Spanish prosecutors. Publications loyal to the Bush team argue that the Spanish investigation is an “intrusion” into American affairs, even when those affairs involve the torture of five Spaniards on Cuba.”
“Both Washington and Madrid appear determined not to allow the pending criminal investigation to get in the way of improved relations.” End Quotes.
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That last one concerns me because ‘politics’ between nations is oftentimes antithetical to justice.
EL JUEZ GARZÓN Y GUANTÁNAMO.
Rafael del Barco Carreras
Abril 2009. Para quien ha pasado TRES AÑOS en La Modelo de Barcelona, 1980-3, que un juez español investigue GUANTÁNAMO, ya no es que sea una ininteligible falacia, que merece profundos estudios psiquiátricos o sicológicos, a la par que sociales e históricos… por el olvido colectivo de una perversión propia de las peores cárceles del TERCER o ningún Mundo.
Garzón podría citar a todos los vecinos de unos 50 años de edad de alrededor del tétrico edificio que muchas noches, en masa, salieron al balcón gritando “asesinos, asesinos…” por los alaridos de los encadenados en LOS SÓTANOS DE LA QUINTA GALERÍA, perfectamente audibles. O consultar varios sumarios con “muertos”, verdaderos “asesinatos”, y como aun vivirán familiares y denunciantes… interrogar. !Qué ni han prescrito y sin alcanzarles la injusta Ley de “borrón y cuenta nueva”!
Él disfrutaría, porque en este sumario, no debería dictar un auto pidiendo la partida de defunción de FRANCO (habían pasado cinco años de su muerte), y aunque hayan muerto varios, el director CAMACHO (una verdadera bestia), viven de los que borrachos en sus guardias nocturnas se divertían torturando. Inmensas palizas…con muertos. En Barcelona eso lo saben todos los JUECES Y FISCALES de entonces, pero no buscan Guantánamos para montar numeritos… con olvidarse de lo sobreseído y archivado, basta. Preguntar al Presidente actual de la Audiencia, José Luis Barrera Cogollos, digno sucesor del de entonces Alfonso Hernández Pardo, con quien compartió Tribunal ESPECIAL (montado solo para ese caso “jueces contaminados”) en el Juicio por el Consorcio de la Zona Franca, donde se me condeno a esos tres años pasados en prisión.
Las imágenes que tanto se han difundido de las especiales prisiones americanas son “infantiles” comparadas con lo que he vivido y visto… en una prisión rodeada de una CIUDAD que ya había votado PROGRESISMO SOCIALISTA, y que poco le importaba si allí había inocentes (que por las habituales torturas y sistema judicial los había muchos) o terroristas con decenas de muertos. 2.600 hacinados, y ríanse del “Expreso del medianoche”.
En http://www.lagrancorrupcion.blogspot.com reproduzco las páginas de “Barcelona, 30 años de corrupción” para refrescar la memoria con el propio relato del primer juez de Vigilancia Penitenciaria en Barcelona, el otrora gran amigo de Garzón, Gómez de Liaño, preguntándose que fue de aquellas denuncias.
Not so glad to see the Spanish Inquisition still alive.
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