Michelle Malkin has a piece on the state of the Camp Pendleton 8, seven Marines and a Navy corpsman sitting in a military prison awaiting investigation the possible kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man.  The men are in wrist and leg shackles and have not yet been charged with a crime. According to Malkin:

The men are in solitary confinement, locked in 8′x8′ cells at San Diego’s Camp Pendleton, as investigators probe an April 26 incident involving the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division. They are behind bars 23 hours a day; family members can only see them through inch-thick Plexiglas. Military blabbermouths have told the press that the service members are suspected of kidnapping and shooting a man in the Iraqi town of Hamdaniya. The Iraqi man’s family reportedly came forward seeking payment for his death as media hysteria set in over the separate alleged atrocity in Haditha.

One of the wives of the men being held has set up a website for the welfare of her husband. She writes:

My husband is one of the seven Marines and one sailor that are being held without being charged over accusations about the incident in Hamandiya that has been in the news for the past few weeks.  Whenever he leaves his cell, he is shackled, handcuffed, and escorted by two guards.  He is kept in solitary confinement and let out for exercise only 1 hour a day.  When I visit him, he is presented to me behind a thick glass barrier and still shackled.  We can’t even touch each other.

My husband’s term in the Marine Corps is up this November.  Four long years…..and then something like this happens.   He was planning on re-enlisting this November to become a recruiter or work at the rifle range.  He loves his job and sees himself in the Corps for at least 4 more years.  But his dreams just may have went down the drain.

I seems odd to me that men who are suspected, but not yet charged with a serious crime would be treated in such a manner.  With the terror suspects at Gitmo/Guantanamo being pampered, the stark contrast in treatment is appalling.  Where are the human rights groups that made such a big stink over the “torture” of the terror detainees?  Detain these men pending investigation and charges, but do so in a more humane manner.

Read the whole posting at Malkin’s site.

 

Michelle Malkin has a piece on the state of the Camp Pendleton 8, seven Marines and a Navy corpsman sitting in a military prison awaiting investigation the possible kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man.  The men are in wrist and leg shackles and have not yet been charged with a crime. According to Malkin:

The men are in solitary confinement, locked in 8′x8′ cells at San Diego’s Camp Pendleton, as investigators probe an April 26 incident involving the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division. They are behind bars 23 hours a day; family members can only see them through inch-thick Plexiglas. Military blabbermouths have told the press that the service members are suspected of kidnapping and shooting a man in the Iraqi town of Hamdaniya. The Iraqi man’s family reportedly came forward seeking payment for his death as media hysteria set in over the separate alleged atrocity in Haditha.

One of the wives of the men being held has set up a website for the welfare of her husband. She writes:

My husband is one of the seven Marines and one sailor that are being held without being charged over accusations about the incident in Hamandiya that has been in the news for the past few weeks.  Whenever he leaves his cell, he is shackled, handcuffed, and escorted by two guards.  He is kept in solitary confinement and let out for exercise only 1 hour a day.  When I visit him, he is presented to me behind a thick glass barrier and still shackled.  We can’t even touch each other.

My husband’s term in the Marine Corps is up this November.  Four long years…..and then something like this happens.   He was planning on re-enlisting this November to become a recruiter or work at the rifle range.  He loves his job and sees himself in the Corps for at least 4 more years.  But his dreams just may have went down the drain.

I seems odd to me that men who are suspected, but not yet charged with a serious crime would be treated in such a manner.  With the terror suspects at Gitmo/Guantanamo being pampered, the stark contrast in treatment is appalling.  Where are the human rights groups that made such a big stink over the “torture” of the terror detainees?  Detain these men pending investigation and charges, but do so in a more humane manner.

Read the whole posting at Malkin’s site.

Al Gore’s Convenient Monologue

 

Here’s a nice summary of some opinions from scientists contrary to those proposed in Al Gore’s ” Inconvenient Truth.” (HT Drudge)

Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: “Gore’s circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention.”

Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, “There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth’s temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years.” Patterson asked the committee, “On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century’s modest warming?”

Dr. Boris Winterhalter, former marine researcher at the Geological Survey of Finland and professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, takes apart Gore’s dramatic display of Antarctic glaciers collapsing into the sea. “The breaking glacier wall is a normally occurring phenomenon which is due to the normal advance of a glacier,” says Winterhalter. “In Antarctica the temperature is low enough to prohibit melting of the ice front, so if the ice is grounded, it has to break off in beautiful ice cascades. If the water is deep enough icebergs will form.”

So if Al Gore wants to have a national dialogue on global “warming,” then he needs to stop his monologue long enough to listen and then respond to other voices.  Ditto the MSM.

And if you have a few minutes, study the data regarding global temeratures over the years.  Very helpful in understanding the debate.