Monday, July 16, 2007

COURT SYSTEM - Catch-22 Decision

"Court overturns challenge to warrantless wiretapping" by Jaimeson Champion, Workers World

In a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel on the Federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati ruled that the plaintiffs—a coalition of groups and organizations including the ACLU, The Council on American Muslim Relations, and a host of scholars and activists—did not have sufficient evidence proving they had been targets of the government’s wiretapping program, and therefore, had no legal standing to sue in court.

Typical, a Catch-22 decision.

"Plaintiffs did not have sufficient evidence proving they had been targets of the governments wiretapping program, and therefore, had no legal standing to sue in court."

You don't have "standing" because you cannot provide evidence, which you cannot get because of secrecy that prevents you from getting the evidence.

Our so-called justice system at work... NOT!

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