Not to defend Libya or what they are doing to these people, but the U.S. is doing far worse to far more people. Americans have no moral high ground to work with anymore and it is hypocritical to criticize the actions of other countries when the U.S. is doing what it’s doing.

Every citizen of the world who does NOT torture and does not support torture possesses the moral high ground to protest and rattle cages. I will not let embarrassment at the current administration’s actions allow me to be embarrassed about my entire country and what I believe it stands for. We should just sit on our hands until voters overturn a current president? No way.

Not to defend Libya or what they are doing to these people, but the U.S. is doing far worse to far more people. Americans have no moral high ground to work with anymore and it is hypocritical to criticize the actions of other countries when the U.S. is doing what it’s doing.

I agree that we are doing worse to far more people, but that is the U.S. government and not you and me, so to speak. We can still fight to save the lives of these six people. We can stand for what’s right and fight torture abroad, as well as torture done by our government. I think it’s extremely important for the world community to know that while George Bush may support torture, Americans–and most certainly progressives–do NOT. It’s not hypocritical to stand for justice. Ever.

Does anyone have enough hard information about this to help determine independently, whether they are in fact guilty?

On what evidence (i mean physical evidence) are these charges based, apart from the 50 dead children?

Finally, what if….the charges are true?

I believe the underlying assumption of your piece is that the charges are false. But …based on everything I have read about this case, I really can’t tell.

Anyone with cogent information ….I would appreciate a link. Thanks.

I spent 4 hours on this last night, once I was made aware of Declan Butler’s request to the blogs. I’ve put in many links, from different sources, so you should be able to get an fairly accurate view of what’s happened. Obviously, without being there in the courtroom, and spending time with the evidence against these people, it’s very hard to know for certain. But, from what I read last night, the experts who have looked at everything, believe these six people to be innocent of the charges. And, within the last week, apparently it’s become clear that Gaddafi may be after money from the int’l community, it order to make this go away.

This seems bizzare to me…any clues on the motivations for the government to persecute these people?

Color me baffled

Declan Butler of Nature has issued a call for help from the scientific and medical blogosphere in protesting and raising awareness about an utter travesty of justice, a vile and utterly vicious miscarriage of justice. This is one that I…