11-23-09

The United States' Legal System Twists in the Wind - Will the Real Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Come on Down? - Roman Polanski

Today, it occurred to me that the US legal system is twisting in the wind, and Roman Palanski has a lot to do with making it twist. By the US legal system twisting in the wind I mean the world is looking at our legal system as corrupt, a system which convicts and executes people who are not guilty of the crimes charged, a legal system which tortures confessions from people who are not guilty of the crimes confessed. The United States now has a legal system which is the opposite of those qualities, fairness mainly, which made the United States great.

As proof the US legal system is totally corrupt I was going to look at the case of the so called 911 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who I have written about numerous times. As I could not remember how to spell his name I Googled something like 911 Case moved to NYC. The googled article totally and completely blew my mind as Sheikh Mohammed is totally different than the original Sheikh Mohammed the 911 investigators were selling back in 2003. FILE - This July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic language web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified by the site as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... Professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (AP Photo/www.muslm.net). See the bin Laden look alike guy with the red and white turban and the long beard, left, he is our new Sheikh Mohammed. Our old Shaikh Mohammed, whose photo I have had posted on my web site since 2003, is the guy to the right which I have described as too dumb looking to get out of the rain. Boy my government insults my intelligence to the point that the insults are irritating to say the least. No wonder the world is shaking its head in disbelief at the US legal system. Our legal system can't even decide on the Arab it is going to execute. The message from our court system is we are going to sell what ever Arab fits the Rothschilds' propaganda agenda at the moment. Back in 2003 our court system wanted Americans to convict and execute an Arab with a too dumb to get out of the rain thug look. Now for some reason our court system's propaganda department wants to execute an Arab with the bin Laden look. The Rothschild propaganda department must want our new 911 Mastermind to have the bin Laden look as if to say the US is in Afghanistan because of Bin Laden in Afghanistan fable.

Even if our court system could decide who is the real Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, we know whoever they convict and execute is not guilty as charged. Just as we know the guy our court system executed earlier this month, John Allen Williams, was a patsy and not the real DC Sniper. Do the Rothschild propaganda department spell Sheik, Sheik one day, and the next spell it Sheikh, and the next spell it Shaik because they are racists and want Arabs to know they are racists? There are two main reasons we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Khalid Mohammed is not the Mastermind behind 911. Sept 11 the buildings were brought down by explosives, and no person would confess to a crime that guarantees that person is executed.

There are two reasons why world opinion does not want Roman Polanski returned to the United States to face trial. Motive. Why does the US want Polanski to face trial? Certainly it has nothing to do with justice. The 911 torture of so called perpetrators, the confessions of so called 911 perpetrators, and the 911 investigation proves to the world the US legal system is corrupt and the US nailing Polanski has nothing to do with justice. Surely the world court of public opinion questions the USA keeping important news from the American people and then wanting to make a spectacle out of Polanski. A second reason world opinion does not want Polanski extradited to face trial in the USA is the world does not believe Polanski will be given a fair trial. They expect Polanski will be tortured to confess and then face secrete charges by a tribunal. The world thinks Polanski will not be allowed an attorney, keep indefinitely in a secrete and executed in secrete.

The United States must have something Switzerland wants kept secrete or Polanski would already be out of jail. It is not everyday the US legal system is hung out to dry.

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9/11 trial a death penalty test for NYC juries
By TOM HAYS (AP) – 1 day ago
NEW YORK — New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.
In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept. 11, while the World Trade Center's ruins were still smoldering.
Now comes a case unlike any other: the trial of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack.
"If there was any case where a New York jury would impose the death penalty, this is it," said James Cohen, a law professor at Fordham University.

Nevertheless, a jury might steer clear of the death penalty — not out of any opposition to capital punishment, but out of fear of making a martyr out of Mohammed.
"We don't care about capital punishment," he said earlier this year at a Guantanamo Bay military hearing. "We are doing jihad for the cause of God."
Ephraim Savitt, a veteran New York lawyer who works on death penalty cases, said that if he were Mohammed's attorney, he would try to save the man's life by telling the jury, "You'll make a shahid out of him. Don't allow him to get what he wants." Shahid means martyr.
The Justice Department announced last week that Mohammed and four other alleged terrorists would be brought from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to New York to face a civilian federal trial in a courthouse blocks from the trade center site.
Despite the city's reputation for liberal juries, death sentences here aren't unprecedented: In 2007, a federal jury in Brooklyn sentenced a man to death for killing two undercover detectives.
But the Brooklyn sentence was the first in New York since cases from the 1950s — including that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg — when death was automatically imposed upon conviction. There have been no death sentences here since the 2007 case, not even in prosecutions involving ruthless drug kingpins and gruesome killings.
Since the federal death penalty was re-established in 1988, juries nationwide have imposed the ultimate penalty 68 times, compared with 132 life sentences, according to the Capital Defense Network, which supports defense lawyers in such cases.
If a jury convicts Mohammed and the others, it will be asked to decide their punishment in a separate proceeding. If they plead guilty, a jury will be picked just to decide on the penalty.
Experts say Mohammed's eagerness to take blame for the Sept. 11 attacks probably makes a conviction certain in the so-called guilt phase of the trial.
But his apparent determination to be a martyr could factor into a decision to spare him execution by lethal injection — a lesson from the embassy bombings case.
In the penalty phase of that trial, prosecutors used testimony of grief-stricken victims' relatives and survivors of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
Jurors also saw gruesome scenes of a charred body lying outside a bombed-out embassy entrance and of corpses lining the floor of a morgue — all over the objections of the defense, which called the scenes irrelevant and prejudicial.
The defense argued that prosecutors cut deals with high-ranking terrorists and spared them harsh sentences even though they had greater roles in the plot. Attorneys also called the mother of one of the convicted bombers as a witness to beg for mercy.
"It will hurt," she said as he wept at the defense table. "He's my son."
In the end, it wasn't sympathy that saved him.
Instead, the jury deadlocked after 10 members concluded that executing him could make him a martyr for the terrorist cause. Nine said it would not relieve the victims' pain; four said lethal injection is humane and the victim would not suffer; five believed life in prison would be a greater punishment; and four noted that he was raised in a different culture.
Experts agree that selecting a jury in the Mohammed case will be a long and arduous task. Los Angeles-based jury consultant Philip Anthony said only people who can convince a judge they can set aside their emotions and opinions about Sept. 11 will qualify — not a typical sampling of New Yorkers.
"You're going to have an unusual group of jurors who may not be willing to impose the death penalty," Anthony said.

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Polanski will not agree to extradition

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/53276/

Yesterday at 10:54 | Reuters
PARIS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Roman Polanski will not agree voluntarily to being extradited to the United States over a 1970s child sex case, the film director's lawyer said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Nov. 20.

Polanski, 76, is being held in a Swiss prison pending a decision on a U.S. extradition request. He fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.

His lawyer, Herve Temime, told Le Figaro that Polanski had already been punished for the original offence after undergoing psychiatric tests during a 42-day period in detention in California in 1978.

He said the fact that the offence took place more than 30 years ago should also weigh in any decision on extradition.

"We also maintain that Mr Polanski did not face a fair trial in Los Angeles," he said. "For all these reasons, among others, his position remains unchanged: he will not accept being extradited to the United States."

Polanski faces up to two years in a U.S. prison if he is extradited but if he does not agree to go voluntarily, the process could take many months or even years.

The Oscar-winning director, who holds dual French and Polish nationality, was arrested to comply with a U.S. warrant when he flew to Switzerland to receive an award at a film festival in September.

The arrest triggered a political storm in France after Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand and numerous prominent artists sprang to his defence. Others argued Polanski's status as a film director should not protect him from the law.

Polanski was originally indicted on six charges, including rape, for having sex after giving the girl champagne and drugs.

He pleaded guilty to a single count of having sex with a minor and spent 42 days in detention. But he fled before the case was concluded, believing a judge would sentence him to up to 50 years despite a plea agreement for time already served.

Temime said Polanski was bearing up well in prison but had asked to be released provisionally and was prepared to offer a substantial financial bond as well as other guarantees against flight, including wearing an electronic bracelet.

Polanski's films include "The Pianist" for which he won an Academy Award in 2002, "Chinatown", "Rosemary's Baby", "Repulsion" and "Knife in the Water".

We remind that Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police as he flew in for the Zurich Film Festival and faces possible extradition to the United States.

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Friday, November 20, 2009
Legal Travesty in the Kahre Case
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Federal Judge David Ezra has sentenced Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre to serve 15 years in the federal penitentiary. What a travesty of justice. The man no more belongs in jail than, say, Plaxico Burress, the NFL player who was sentenced to serve two years in a New York jail for possessing a handgun for self-defense. It’s just part of the trend in America to send good people to jail for violating ridiculous regulations.
What was Kahre’s crime? He took advantage of a loophole in U.S. tax law and then openly and publicly exposed it.
U.S. officials play this game in which they claim to the world that U.S. gold coins constitute legal tender at face value when in fact they don’t really mean it. Kahre exposed the fraudulent nature of their game by paying his workers with U.S. gold coins rather than paper money. Since the total value of the compensation was significantly lower using the face value of the coins, the employees did not reach the legal threshold for paying income taxes on their income, and Kahre wasn’t doing any withholding on their wages.
Kahre did all this openly and publicly. He had found a tax loophole, and he tested it. The most the feds should have done was file a civil proceeding against him. He didn’t deserve a criminal prosecution and certainly doesn’t deserve any higher sentence than probation, the sentence the judge gave Kahre’s wife Danille, who also participated in the scheme.
In fact, since probation is the appropriate sentence for the wife, why not for the husband? The judge says that it’s because Kahre exerted a strong influence on the 38-year-old woman. What nonsense. She’s 38 years old, Judge Ezra, not a 14-year-old. Why not match his sentence to hers?
The feds had to make an example out of Bob Kahre. He had committed a super no-no. He had exposed the government’s gold-coin, legal-tender claim for the fraud it is.
That was Kahre’s real crime, or at least one of them. The other one was exposing what the Federal Reserve has done to people’s money. That’s the other super no-no that’s taking place here.
Back before the Federal Reserve was established, a $20 bill could be exchanged for a $20 one-ounce gold coin. How much paper money do you need to buy that gold coin today? You need more than $1,100 to buy it. The reason is that the Federal Reserve, decade after decade, has been flooding the market with paper money, enabling federal officials to engage in their grandiose welfare and warfare programs without having to raise income taxes even more than they have.
That’s the scam that Kahre was exposing with his gold-coin, legal-tender scheme. He was showing Americans in a very real way what the Federal Reserve has done and is doing to our money.
Within this legal travesty, there were a couple of amusing moments at the sentencing hearings, as reported in the Las Vegas Review Journal. One was when Judge Ezra counseled Kahre’s wife on how to raise her children: “If, as a result of that trauma, that turns (the children) against their own country and leads along a path of hate and retribution, they will have lost their promise to grow into healthy, productive adults.”
According to the judge, the federal government is the same as the country, and children should grow up into good, little citizens, who love their government. Never mind that the Bill of Rights expressly protects the country from the government and that the reason the Founding Fathers stood up against their own government was because they loved their country. Note to Judge Ezra: It’s possible for people to love their country and hate and oppose the wrongdoing of their government. It’s what genuine patriotism is all about.
The other amusing occurrence was at Kahre’s sentencing hearing. Ezra revealed that Las Vegas psychiatrist Karen Cruey had diagnosed Kahre in 2008 with “a persecutory and grandiose delusional disorder … that perceives harassment where there is none.”
Yeah, for the next 15 years Kahre can sit in his jail cell and think to himself that the two federal trials he underwent, his sentencing, his conviction, and his incarceration are all imaginary and perceived.
As her husband Robert received his 15-year sentence, his wife Danille “moaned and sobbed audibly in court.” It’s what America should be doing as well. The sooner we get the IRS and Federal Reserve abolished, as our American ancestors did, the better off the country will be.
Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation

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