A team of military lawyers recruited to defend alleged terrorists held by the US at Guantanamo Bay was dismissed by the Pentagon after some of its members rebelled against the unfair way the trials have been designed. [...]
The first group of defence lawyers the Pentagon recruited for Guantanamo balked at the commission rules, which insist, among other restrictions, that the government be allowed to listen in to any conversations between attorney and client.
"The first day, when they were being briefed on the dos and don'ts, at least a couple said: 'You can't impose these restrictions on us because we can't properly represent our clients.' When the group decided they weren't going to go along, they were relieved. They reported in the morning and got fired that afternoon." [...]
US fires Guantanamo defence team
US fires Guantanamo defence team
"It's a convergical synergistolon!! Am I PAID yet?"
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BoingBoing reports that digerati loser R.U. Sirius is now writing interview material for one of those nutritional supplement marketers.
It's perfect when you think about it. The self-promoting, fuzzy-minded bullshit that the Wired Magazine generation laps up, all in one package: bad science, cheap new age philosophy, hucksterism, logrolling, and greed. Now in a familiar form known as "vitamin fraud".
I await their announcement that spamming is a new form of blogging, to be called "splogging" no doubt.
Here's your New Economy: grass and ephedra in a capsule at 4000% markup.
