After their convictions in these Tribunals, Bush and his cronies, prior to their executions, will be subjected on a daily basis, for a period of not less than one year, to waterboarding, shackling, and sleep deprivation. Also, in honor of their outstanding work at Abu Ghraib, they will also be required to pose nude and simulate sexual acts with their fellow war criminals.
If the convicted shall protest, they will be reminded that even their own Attorney General, Michael Mukasey , is not sure whether such tortures are illegal under American law.
This law will also cover legal misconduct on the part of judges, prosecutors and police officers. Recently two men, Glen Chapman from North Carolina and Tim Masters of Colorado , were released from prison after their murder convictions were overturned. In the Chapman case, alleged perjury by an investigating detective helped to secure his conviction, while in the Masters case, there are allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
These two men are the latest in a growing list of individuals who have been freed from prison after evidence of such misconduct arose. Yet rarely, if ever, is it punished. In fact the prosecutors in the Masters case are now judges, and the officer in the Chapman case continued to work in law enforcement.
Although “investigations” are now being conducted in the Masters and Chapman cases, it is doubtful anything will ever be done. Jon Burge, who commanded a police division in Chicago, Illinois that routinely used torture to send several innocent men to death row, now lives comfortably in Florida on a police pension. The police and prosecutors who used perjured testimony to send two other innocent Illinois men to death row were not just acquitted—the jurors who acquitted them celebrated with them afterwards. And in South Bend, Indiana , the prosecutor who sent an innocent man to prison is now a Superior Court judge, and his former boss, the Chief Prosecutor at the time of this wrongful conviction, is now an appeals court judge. In fact the only one not “rewarded” is the wrongfully convicted man himself. A federal magistrate denied him any financial compensation for his years of wrongful imprisonment, supposedly because this man could not prove he was prosecuted in “bad faith”—an impossible burden for a criminal defendant to meet since he/she is not in a position to observe the machinations of law enforcement personnel or prosecutors.
This As You Sow So Shall You Reap Law will deny trials to judges, prosecutors and police who abuse or corrupt the system. Instead they will be immediately taken into custody and required to endure the same penalties that those they wrongfully convicted were required to endure.
4). The Restore Civil Liberties Law (except to those responsible for taking them away):
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