Unfair Justice Quotes
Description of Atomic Energy Commission hearings on the security status of Robert Oppenheimer. Robert Oppenheimer was the physicist who directed the development of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan project of World War II. After the war his views opposed some powerful political interests and they organized hearings to deny him a security clearance. Conant was a scientist who was the liaison between the highest levels of government and the staff at Los Alamos who were developing the bomb. Later, to make amends, Oppenheimer received the Fermi prize from the President.
The nobles of the city were in rebellion and fought the English Prince of Wales. When the city was taken, the poor people as well as the nobles were executed for their part in the “rebellion.” However, the poor had no say in the matter, and it was not they who ordered the city gates shut and decided to undergo a siege, which in this case was not successful. Limoges was a heavily walled city, well provisioned for a siege, but the English had miners who undermined part of the city walls and crashed them into the moat and allowed the English to walk in easily.
Major Fleener had been assigned to defend accused terrorists who were being held at the military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. For several years they were held without a hearing or trial. Then the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that they had to be given a hearing or trial. A Military tribunal was selected. The methods and procedures of these hearings came under much public world-wide criticism as they did not meet the normal legal standards of most countries. Surprisingly, one of the military officers made public statements criticizing the army and the trials.
