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Ireland Refuses To Extradite Man To US Because Prison System Is Too Inhumane
Submitted by Cassius Methyl via TheAntiMedia.org,
Throughout the world, the U.S. prison system is often seen as inhumane and excessively large.
The American prison system is so reviled, in fact, that Irish officials recently refused to extradite an alleged terrorist to the U.S. The court cited concerns that if he were sent to the U.S., he would probably be placed in Colorado’s “Supermax” prison, ADX Florence (Administrative Maximum Facility). The prison is nicknamed Colorado’s “Alcatraz of the Rockies.”
Irish High Court Justice Aileen Donnelly went as far as to write a 333-page report about why the suspect shouldn’t be extradited. One highlight from the court’s ruling was that incarceration at ADX Florence prison would amount to “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Donnelly said the prison “amounts to a breach of the constitutional requirement to protect persons from inhuman and degrading treatment and to respect the dignity of the human being.”
“[P]rolonged exposure to involuntary solitary confinement exacts a significant physiological toll, is damaging to the integrity of the mind and personality, and is damaging to the bodily integrity of the person,” she continued.
According to the Los Angeles Times, “An Irish resident originally from Algiers, Damache, 50, [is]accused of using online chat rooms to recruit American women into a would-be terrorist cell operating in this country and Europe.
One man and two women, including Damache’s wife, have already been convicted in U.S. courts of providing material support to terrorists. And Damache was captured by Irish authorities in 2010 in Dublin on a separate charge of making a telephone death threat and held without bail.”
In 2011, Damache was indicted from a distance in a Philadelphia court on “charges of plotting to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad as a dog.”
Damache was released in May after serving his time, but the U.S. is still pushing for his extradition.
“I always had faith in the Irish legal system,” he said in a statement presented by his lawyers. “After more than five years in jail, I am looking forward to moving on with my life here.”
The Colorado prison has held some of the most well-known criminals in American history, keeping them in solitary confinement with extremely limited access to outside communication. Notorious inmates include Timothy McVeigh and other people accused of high level terrorism—such as Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a civilian court for involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
Lawyers have even argued that incarceration at ADX Florence is worse than the death penalty. Defense expert Mark Bezy called it “a mechanism to cut off an inmate’s communications with the outside world.”
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The Irish court’s refusal to extradite Damache adds to a growing trend of nations that opt to exercise their own sovereignty amid pressure from powerful American influence.
Such nations are increasingly moving to decide issues for themselves as they refuse to be persuaded into following the orders of a more powerful empire.
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Is it your keyboard or brain that is defective?
BTW - it's County Clare
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter... or is it the other way around?
This Irish dame writes a 333 page report on American prisons and ZH does it in one?
Don't worry about things. Pentagonia is the successor state to America and we can do business as and when. 'Everyday Americans' will soon be shut up in their large rectangular geographical box and forgotten.
No passport, no cash, no permit to travel. Elysium in the Homeland.
re Ireland Refuses To Extradite...
This of course would be illegal for a country signed up to the terms of the proposed TPP - where it would be found guilty of interfering with the "business practices" (and private profits) of - in this case - the USSA's GULAGS R US Inc.
And THIS just in: "Fcuk Ireland!" - Victoria Nudelman-Kagan
***ALERT*** Paging Samantha Power! Paging Samantha Power!....
Report immediately to the Hillarydrome where your broomstick has been prepared for take-off...
You will be flying - at mach 3 - over to The Ol' Sod to screech some sense into those ingrate potato-pickin', pissant-peasant compadres of yours.
You will circle the Dail in Dublin and - in your best frothing-at-the-mouth, venom-spitting, banshee-wailing, clawing-at-the-air trademark delivery - shriek them into psyche-shattering submission. Your daddy - not to mention St Paddy - woulda been so proud of you!
Gulags R Us Inc. wish you well - don't come back empty-handed...
Now away with thee - booze-sozzled strumpet!
This is a new trend of countries regarding the US with revulsion, aloofness and contempt. And with damn good reason.
The US is the only western block country that has a clue about how to deal with terrorism, for all of your damn the USA remarks. Europe is hopeless.
Meanwhile the US should be monitoring its southern border--it is outrageous that there is an IS stronghold near Juarez.
"how to deal with terrorism"
dafuq? lolwut?
what plan is that? create as much as possible?
I'm only talking about protecting citizens residing in the country, not the quagmire created by humanitarian bombing the whole ME and turning once stable and prosperous countries such as Libia and Syria in to bombed out hellholes.
Domestically, realistically speaking, the only plausible way to catch terrorists is by suspending civil rights for those who are suspected terrorists, monitoring extralegally all their electronic communications, etc. This is what the Patriot Act tries to do. Otherwise you don't stand a chance and might as well capitulate as the Europeans have done and are doing. They are eroding the civil rights of their citizens in any case by theft of savings, pensions, etc. All this in the name of protecting civil liberties? They have also assured their own economic collapse due to the backbreakimg demands that "asylum seekers" have placed on their social systems. The elites are fully conscious of thes items but choose to make things worse, either intentionally or cravenly.
LMAOROF.
List the countries for us, dickhead.
Their all taking our money, at the present time, and stealing the majority of it.
It would be ok with me if we pulled back to our shores and left you and your ilk, on your freaking on.
Look at you useless pricks who are criticizing Ireland for doing the right thing, fuck you American cuntz sort out your own useless death machine of a wrecked country.
ok The Wall. You got us. Useless pricks.
I guess you and your countrymen felt the same way when you dallied joining Hilter in his final solution.
Without the USA and our military, you progressive slimeballs would've already been acid rain.
Fuck you..
He can enroll into a gay marriage prison ceremony and become the cell block bitch under Obama regime.
/sarc
The article is misleading. Because in Europe we have a bizarre court called European Court of Human Rights which can overturn decisions from national High courts, and is effectively running the show. EU is destroying Europe.
Why are Europe's elites destroyimg Europe? This is the mystery. A couple of possibilities..
They see something coming down the pike that will destroy civilisation, such as an astronmical threat?
They are so high and mighty that they have lost all feeling of connection with the rest of humanity?
There really is a Lucifarian pact that runs the world and wishes to destroy humanity?
The return of paganism and overturning of Christian values? Might makes right?
Something totally prosaic that I'm just not seeing?
Well 1/3 of the prisoners aren't U.S. citizens.... Do any other countries have that problem? Or are we continue to lie and say it is "non-violent" drug offenders.
We have so many law writing entities that it is impossible to know what is legal and illegal. State and federal agencies make laws, city councils, state legislatures and congress make laws, judges make laws and the President issues executive orders. It is entirely possible that while you are following the edicts of one agency you are violating the edicts of another agency or entity. Consequently, we are all potential criminals simply waiting to garnish the attention of some particular agency or entity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/the-overcriminalization-o...
Well then.
We should give Ireland all the ganstas, the supremists, and moslem converts to treat humanely.
And maybe throw in all the death row inmates that had their sentences turned to life by the unconstitutional US Supreme court.
We could pay them like $10k a year each and make money on the deal.
They'd go for it, for the humanity.
RICO all banksters, their political whores, bureaucrats, lame stream media enablers, and 99,000 lawyers.
In the mid 50's guess how much it cost per year to incarcerate a prisoner in Texas? $10,000? $5,000?
No, the answer isn't even zero. The prison system actually made money.
Prisoners would work on the Texas farm system, mostly growing food. Extensive farm lands were owned by the system, and low risk prisoners worked the system. This food then went to public schools, so students had very low cost meals.
Higher risk prisoners were watched over by "trustees." These trustees were basically snitches that worked for the 'man'. Trustees were inmates, and by working for the man, they got benefits, and reduced sentancing time.
The FARM lobby in mid 60's worked to overturn Texas trustee system, because Farm Lobby wanted to make money selling food. Today, the farm lobby is one of the groups that still has a lot of power in Washington.
Others wanted to profit on this Texas farm land by shifting it into the private economy. Yet others, mostly liberals, thought that prison conditions were too INHUMANE. Oh the inhumanity of it all, having snitches that work for the man!
Fast forward to future, and it costs about $50K per prisoner, and this is taxpayer money. This high cost represents a theft of lthe labor value of taxpaying worker, while prisoner labor goes idle. The transfer from the taxpayer is toward the "for profit" prison. It is a rent scheme, and the U.S. economy abounds in rental thefts.
Prison's are now companies, and the idea was that the "market" would be low cost and efficient - or at least that is how it is sold to laboring/voting sheeple. Markets are always efficient and Godlike - right?
The reality is that Government has its place, and its place is inelastic markets.
GOVERNMENT IS THE LOWEST COST PRODUCER IN INELASTIC MARKETS. Outside of ineleastic markets, government incurs high cost. Pay attention economists, you never mention that markets are of different types - why is that?
The trick is to find balance and to set things in perspective. For-profit prisons are a really stupid idea, with an end result of something that profits only a few at top of prison pyramid, while screwing over -literally - everybody else.
Ireland quoted our own constitution as the reason why they're not willing to extradite this guy back to the U.S. Did anyone inform them that our own government trashed canned the constitution a while back and it no longer applies?
As my handle says, soon we'll be expected to relocate people that want to kill us to middle class suburbia, buy them houses or better yet, kick families out of their homes to house terroists. . .