Friday, August 28, 2009

The New Guidelines for Advisement of Rights to Terrorists?


[SEE BLOG ENTRY ABOVE FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS FICTIONAL, SATIRICAL ACCOUNT ABOUT NEW RULES FOR INTERROGATING TERRORISTS!]

New U.S. Army/FBI/CIA Agent Field Manual:
Sec. 9-11 (Revised): INTERROGATION OF CAPTURED TERRORISTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD: THE NEW REQUIRED ADVISEMENT OF RIGHTS TO DEFENDANTS / TERRORISTS:

[First Note to Interrogating Agent: Identify yourself to your defendant/guest and remember: A big smile works better than water boarding any day! Next, proceed with the following advisement of rights.]:

1. Mr. [Defendant/Guest’s name]: First of all, please allow me to apologize to you for interrupting your pursuit of martyrdom here on the battlefield against our American soldiers.

2. And, Sir, if you don’t mind, please also allow me now to advise you of your Constitutional rights—And please understand you will be treated better and given greater rights than those afforded to any American citizen.

[Second Note to Interviewing Agent: Please also remember to ask the defendant/guest if he is comfortable…and please don’t forget to smile!]

3. Let me also advise you that our government apologizes for all our past administration’s sins and transgressions against you and your people in the former “war on terrorism”—now, if you don’t mind, we just want to sit and talk with you, and we apologize to you for not being more sensitive to your needs and your desire to kill us and to accomplish your most holy jihad against our country;

4. Please be further advised that you have the right to remain silent, and even if you possess valuable information about future terrorist attacks against us which may cost thousands of innocent American lives, we promise we won’t touch you, or do anything else about it;

5. You also have the right to have a free team of attorneys present, to represent you, and to sue me, or sue our government, if I touch you, or if you otherwise don’t get your way;

6. You further have the right not to have anything you say used against you, in a court of law, but instead, you have the right to use anything I say or do against me in my own prosecution by my own government, now, or in the future, if and when they change the rules again;

7. In short, please understand you have the right to a fair trial and to be treated like an American citizen, with full Constitutional rights, and not as a prisoner of war, nor as the dirty, low-life, God-forsaken, good-for-nothing, scumbag terrorist that some other uninformed people might think you are;

8. And please let me also advise you not to worry about Gitmo, that big, bad prison your fellow terrorists may have told you about, because it is being shut down. Instead, you have the right to request assignment to any cushy U.S. federal prison of your choice; that is, until your inevitable release and free trip back to any terrorist nation, training camp, or battlefield of your choice;

9. In the alternative, if you prefer, you have the right to be released inside the U.S. to any target location of your choice, and there you will be treated to free room and board, (at U.S. taxpayer’s expense), along with free universal health care, of course; and

10. Finally, Sir, please review the special kosher menu before you and make your meal selections while you consider all your rights and choices—and, if you don’t mind, we’d also like for you to take this short survey on how you feel we have treated you! Have a nice day!

[Final Note to Interviewing Agent: You may also elect to offer the defendant/guest an opportunity to save us all a lot of time and trouble by simply letting himself out the back door….and don’t forget to remind him to take his firearms and suicide belt with him…and please also remember to thank your guest and smile at him, really, really big!]

2 comments:

  1. Richard, great post. Sadly, I think Obama's agents are more likely to send any "bad guys" on their way with a wink and a smile. Or worse, a wad of cash thrust into their hands. Gotta be able to buy bullets to fight against Americans. The more American service people killed by terrorists, the fewer returning "terrorist" vets Napolitano and the Obama administration have to worry about.

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  2. This new guidelines sound humane, but I doubt in practice.

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