{"id":188257,"date":"2010-11-01T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/01\/so-they-torture-a-little-boy-admit-the-testimony-thereby-extracted-use-it-to-coerce-a-confession-and-sentence-him-to-40-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2010-11-01T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:03:00","slug":"so-they-torture-a-little-boy-admit-the-testimony-thereby-extracted-use-it-to-coerce-a-confession-and-sentence-him-to-40-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/01\/so-they-torture-a-little-boy-admit-the-testimony-thereby-extracted-use-it-to-coerce-a-confession-and-sentence-him-to-40-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"So they Torture a Little Boy, Admit the Testimony Thereby Extracted, Use it to Coerce a Confession, and Sentence Him to 40 Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only he will actually be out in less than 3 years, since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/02\/us\/02detain.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Omar <span>Khadr<\/span> will be transferred to Canada, and released for time served<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A United States military commission at <span>Guant\u00e1namo<\/span> Bay has sentenced a former child soldier for Al <span>Qaeda<\/span> to 40 years in prison for war crimes \u2014 but he might be released in less than three years, the Defense Department said.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of seven military officers at the American military base in Cuba determined on Sunday that the child soldier, Omar <span>Khadr<\/span>, 24, should be imprisoned \u2014 for terrorism-related offenses he committed in Afghanistan when he was a teenager \u2014 until he nearly reaches retirement age.<\/p>\n<p>But that sentence was theoretical. Under the terms of a plea agreement, Mr. <span>Khadr<\/span> will serve no more than eight years. Moreover, after one year, Mr. <span>Khadr<\/span>, a Canadian citizen, is likely to be transferred to a prison in Canada, where he would be eligible to apply for parole after serving two years and eight months. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The was a show trial, with a predetermined result specifically to allow face saving on the idea of military commissions.<\/p>\n<p>The proceedings are a travesty of the law and basic decency, and every individual up the chain of command who allowed this case to proceed is guilty of conspiracy to violate both US anti-torture statutes and international treaties to which the United States is a signatory.<\/p>\n<p>Not feeling <span>hopey<\/span> <span>changey<\/span> right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only he will actually be out in less than 3 years, since Omar Khadr will be transferred to Canada, and released for time served: A United States military commission at Guant\u00e1namo Bay has sentenced a former child soldier for Al Qaeda to 40 years in prison for war crimes \u2014 but he might be released &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1032,969,972,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-justice","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}