Guantanamo Lawyer get Death Threat, Quits

[northernsoul]

Strap on yer tinfoil hats for this one, friends!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=nm/canada_security_guantanamo_canada_col

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"Well, Mr. Galati, what's this I hear about working with the terrorist now, helping to get that...punk terrorist Khadr off. Now, you a dead wop," said the message, which Galati played for reporters.


Galati has made a name for himself representing clients accused of having links to threatening organizations, and he said he recognized the voice on the message from threats made to another client, who subsequently disappeared.


"This is not a typical death threat that one receives. This is very atypical, very pointed, very professional, and somewhat familiar," he said.


He said he had been rebuffed in attempts to get police protection and suggested the threat may have originated from an "unspecified intelligence agency".
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gee, wonder who that unspecified intelligence agency might be...

[mbperrin]

1. No need for tinfoil - this is how these

bastards play, ever since they shredded the Constitution.

[tom_paine]

6. Yep, people are being murdered...just the start

The more power the Busheviks consolidate, the more they will continue to reveal their true selves.

When (and if, of course, I pray that the Totalitarian Shadow can be hurled back again) the Democratic Party is reduced to rubble, we will begin to see just what the Busheviks have always intended Imperial Amerika to look like and feel like.

These are just tiny baby steps.

Totalitarianism has AGAIN destroyed a Republic and now threatens the world.

But this time, Amerikans have decided to play the German role...

[bluestateguy]

2. Now do you see why the Left must oppose gun control?

He said he had been rebuffed in attempts to get police protection and suggested the threat may have originated from an "unspecified intelligence agency".


Galati has received death threats before and once found a strangled cat on his doorstep. He looked close to tears as he said he would focus on non-security-related cases.

This is what happens when government refuses to protect unpopular persons. Take away a man's ability to defend himself and you can oppress him. Empowered with a juicy computer database of gun owners (demanded by gun controllers), what would stop John Ashcroft from confiscating this lawyer's gun, thus allowing him to get assassinated?

[Rex]

3. A gun won't protect him from taxpayer trained thugs

If I was Galati, I would stay out of buildings higher than 6 stories.

:tinfoilhat:

[northernsoul]

4. actually, he's in Canada

so theoretically he's outside Ashcroft's jurisdiction. Not that the BFEE respects national boundaries.

Wish I could've posted more of that article, it's chilling

[absyntheNsugar]

5. As unpopular as it is

I agree with you...as far to the left as I am, I do beleive in our 2nd ammendment rights - and the whole reaason they exist - to protect the first and expel a tyrannical government when necesarry.

[David__77]

7. I do agree.

We need to not just support the right to bear arms, but actually it's a good thing to have a strong contingent of progressives who are very adament on the issue.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. Bingo! We progressives need to be pragmatic and...

fully support the 2nd amendment!

edit: "2nd Amendment Democrats" :dem:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. Unless you have an Abrams parked in your driveway, the only

thing a gun would do against the gov't is get you killed more quickly.

Red Dawn is a fiction.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. My god! What in the hell is going on?

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"It means that the rule of law is meaningless. It means that lawyers cannot represent anyone, even in what you profess to be a democracy here in Canada," he said.
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This is sad.

[northernsoul]

11. this is very, very frightening

I tend not to be a conspricist, but this to me would indicate that we're about on the same level as El Salvador in the 80's where the government is operating death squads to silence dissent.

How long til ACLU members start 'disappearing'?

[CHIMO]

18. Columbia

Just want to point out that I believe he said that the rule of law in Canada now is the same as Columbia. Not hard to see when a Canadian passport means nothing.

[beevul]

12. I am verry worried

that this is only the beginning.

Even more worried about what might come next.

[Just Me]

13. The Country I Thought I knew,...

,...is melting away. All that sacrifice to build such a great country,...melting away. All the progress towards decency, tolerance, diversity, integrity,...vanishing by the wand of a single neo-con "rule of force" influence. It cannot be. It cannot be.

[MrPrax]

14. All rather suspicious...

Galati was Delmart Vreeland's lawyer as well...
You think given the high profile cases he would have thicker skin...

[Minstrel Boy]

15. Galati was one of Delmart Vreeland's attorney's

A lot of weird shit happened then, too. Death threats, phone taps, document theft. A dead cat was left hanging outside his door.

[northernsoul]

16. umm, who is Delmart Vreeland?

Sorry, but the name really doesn't ring a bell for me.

[Minstrel Boy]

17. an American who sought refugee status in Canada

because he feared being killed for what he knew about US government foreknowledge of 9/11. He claimed to be with the Office of Naval Intelligence, his detractors say he's a simple con man. (I think he's a con man, but not a simple one. I believe he was with ONI.) He skipped out before a ruling was delivered, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Probably the most thorough and balanced investigative piece on Vreeland is Sander Hicks' 9-part series "Wildcard":

http://www.guerrillanews.com/wildcard/vreeland_one