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His May 2004 court-martial was a kangaroo-court show trial, widely broadcast to all military personnel worldwide on internal Pentagon television, radio and newspaper outlets.
Reviewing Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's "Rules of Disengagement" 2009
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His May 2004 court-martial was a kangaroo-court show trial, widely broadcast to all military personnel worldwide on internal Pentagon television, radio and newspaper outlets.
Printing: Reviewing Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's "Rules of Disengagement" 2009
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Mejia's May 2004 court-martial was a kangaroo-court show trial to drive home the point.
Francis A. Boyle's "Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law" 2008
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So far, thanks to the First Amendment, outlawing 'hate speech' hasn't caught on here - and we've been able to avoid the kangaroo-court thought-crime craziness currently tormenting our friends in Canada.
Kill Liberals-- The TN Unitarian Church Murderer's Motive (with poll) 2008
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Not even the US kangaroo-court abomination known as a Military Commission is needed, it seems: the editorialist has already found Khadr guilty.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Now that the Do-Nothing Rubberstamp Congress has finally put its foot down on the president's kangaroo-court torture mill, Bush will have to decide whether to do testicle-smashing on Tuesdays and Thursdays, fingernail ripping Mondays and Fridays, or vice versa, and whether a defendant should be blindfolded throughout his trial, or just blinded to save on cloth.
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With the immorally presented kangaroo-court vote that passed Prop 8 in California and with other anti-gay measures in Arizona, Florida, and Arkansas, I think we gays/lesbians have waited long enough.
The Time for Waiting is Over! The Time for Action is NOW! 2008
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In any event, opening KSM's CSRT to the press would not have solved the problems of excessive secrecy nor of the kangaroo-court nature of the CSRTs themselves where detainees have no lawyer or right to see the evidence against them.
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A U.S. military kangaroo-court commission convicted him on two counts.
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Mejia's May 2004 court-martial was a kangaroo-court show trial to drive home the point.
Francis A. Boyle's "Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law" 2008
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