CITIZENS ARREST!! mrbush if u dont resigne will arrest u ourselve

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• 6 March 2006, 05:27

  art says read the article get mad call the weasels in congress everyday and tell them bush is breaking the 6th ammendment and there is no debate over definitions.Then tell them we will make a citizens arrest against all of them for complicity with treason during war which carries a penalty during war time up to death by hanging, and we are mad as hell and aint going to take it no more. do your job or else

• 6 March 2006, 07:24

  Feds shroud many cases in secrecy

  Criminal trial records

  By Michael J. Sniffen and John Solomon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

  WASHINGTON— Despite the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts over the last three years.

  Instances of such secrecy more than doubled from 2003 to 2005.

  An Associated Press investigation found, and court observers agree, that most of these defendants are cooperating government witnesses, but the secrecy surrounding their records prevents the public from knowing details of their plea bargains with the government.

  Most of these defendants are involved in drug gangs, though lately a very small number come from terrorism cases. Some of these cooperating witnesses are among the most unsavory characters in America’s courts — multiple murderers and drug dealers — but the public cannot learn whether their testimony against confederates won them drastically reduced prison sentences or even freedom.

  In the nation’s capital, which has had a serious problem with drug gangs murdering government witnesses, the secrecy has reached another level — the use of secret dockets. For hundreds of such defendants over the past few years in this city, should someone acquire the actual case number for them and enter it in the U.S. District Court’s computerized record system, the computer will falsely reply, “no such case” — rather than acknowledging that it is a sealed case.

  At the request of the AP, the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts conducted its first tally of secrecy in federal criminal cases. The nationwide data it provided the AP showed 5,116 defendants whose cases were completed in 2003, 2004 and 2005, but the bulk of their records remain secret.

  “The constitutional presumption is for openness in the courts, but we have to ask whether we are really honoring that,” said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and now law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “What are the reasons for so many cases remaining under seal?”

  “What makes the American criminal justice system different from so many others in the world is our willingness to cast some sunshine on the process, but if you can’t see it, you can’t really criticize it,” Levenson said.

  The courts’ administrative office and the Justice Department declined to comment on the numbers.

  The data show a sharp increase in secret case files over time as the Bush administration’s well-documented reliance on secrecy in the executive branch has crept into the federal courts through the war on drugs, anti-terrorism efforts and other criminal matters.

  “This follows the pattern of this administration,” said John Wesley Hall, an Arkansas defense lawyer and second vice president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “I am astonished and shocked that this many criminal proceedings in federal court escape public scrutiny or become buried.”

  The percentage of defendants who have reached verdicts and been sentenced but still have most of their records sealed has more than doubled in the last three years, the court office’s tally shows.

  Of nearly 85,000 defendants whose cases were closed in 2003, the records of 952 or 1.1 percent remain mostly sealed. Of more than 82,000 defendants with cases closed in 2004, records for 1,774 or 2.2 percent remain mostly secret. And of more than 87,000 defendants closed out in 2005, court records for 2,390, or 2.7 percent, remain mostly closed to the public.

  The court office also found a sharp increase in defendants whose case records were partly sealed for a limited time. Among newly charged defendants, the numbers in this category grew from 9,999 or 10.9 percent of all defendants charged in 2003 to 11,508 or 12.6 percent of those charged in 2005.

  But the AP investigation found, and court observers agree, that the overwhelming number of these cases sealed for a limited time involve a use of secrecy that draws no criticism: the sealing of an indictment only until the defendant is arrested.

  The AP’s investigation found a large concentration of both kinds of secrecy at the U.S. District Court here: limited sealing of records and extensive sealing that continues even after courts are done with a defendant.

  No matter how few turn out to be almost totally sealed after the defendant’s case was completed, “it’s still significant,” said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a pioneer in campaigning against court secrecy.

  “The Supreme Court has said that criminal proceedings are public,” Dalglish added. “In this country, we don’t prosecute and lock up convicts and have no public track record of how we got there. That violates the defendants’ rights not to mention the public’s right to know what its court system is doing.”

• 6 March 2006, 23:30

  THEY JUST ARRESTED CINDY SHEEHAN AGAINNNNNNNN!!!!

  Why were there ONLY 20 people protesting?

  America IS SPOOKED and a WORLD WIIIIIDE SHAME!!!!

  Government getting their jollies out of arresting a peaceful person following what used to be her constitutional rights:

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030600990.html

  Lisa

• 7 March 2006, 22:33

  I know, that this short writing, is a rhetorical piece and an entertaining and passionately written at that. I admit, that I too, have allowed to let my fantasy fly along, its naive simplicity, its appeal for justice. Alas, it haven’t taken long for the sober reality to return. Who is going to arrest his Praetorian Guards? The countless uniformed and specially trained under-covered officers, the snipers on the roof? Who will hold back the convoy of limos, which have been built like battletanks? Who will hold back Marine one and Air Force one to block his escape routes, in order for him to face justice? Which law enforcement agency, the people should handle him over if the above suggested action would succeed against all odds? Where is the brave public prosecutor who will be death-defiant enough to take up the case? What about the judge? Who will provide him/her security? I’m sorry to say, but I think, we are well over that point, where such a folkish, somewhat naive solution could work.

  • 8 March 2006, 15:30

    207 not if after they are arrested a world wide ppv humiliation series were broadcast around the world. if handled properly and fairly with the arrest of 3333 us goovernment war criminals or as they say enemy combatants. then marketed to full potential , i easily see 35 trillion dollar gross by taking these lemons and making lemonade for the world from them. you tell me , that if after we market these criminals and then start making repartation to all citizens of the world , build everyone houses , find everyone a constructive job they can handle and do away with all spying equipment, that we wouldnt see, worldwide peace for years and years. sure i agree this is simple and somewhat naive. however , this want be done, but it could be. nothing wrong with the naive plan, its just not enough understand to do anything about it. i apologize world for my countrys leaders, its not the people voting for them.it wouldnt matter if 200000000 all voted against them , diebold would say they won. people around the world it isnt just the usa where these neocon criminals are entrenched they are in your countries too, dont let them get entrenched. forgive the us citizens but help us get these neocons in prison where they belong