While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the District of Columbia circuit court of appeals hands down Hamdan v. Rumsfeld : enemy combatants being held by the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are not entitled to the protections of the Constitution for the united States, or the Geneva Conventions.

       NOTE: During the trial Hamdan’s attorney (government licensed legal counsel) was not allowed to mention that Hamdan had been tortured by the Central Intelligence Agency.  His attorney’s attempts to subpoena the CIA for records of his torture were denied.

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        The District of Columbia circuit court of appeals hands down massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency: only CONgress is responsible for protection against air pollution, and not the states, or property owners.

       [added 1/20/2024]

       Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (acting under-color-of-law), arrest 30 undocumented aliens (free-market workers), from El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, and the former Soviet republic of the Ukraine, in a sting operation, at Johnson Air Force Base, in Goldsboro, north carolina.  The ICE agents posed as Office of Safety and Health Administration inspectors, and announced a mandatory safety meeting for all workers of defense contractors, at the base.

       NOTE: OSHA criticized the action, for making it more difficult for the agency to perform its function of insuring workplace safety.  As Hispanic workers will be less likely to trust allegedly OSHA sponsored events in the Future.  Over the course of the past several years, Hispanic workers have endured a workplace fatality rate 20% higher than that of workers of African or European heritage.

       [added 1/20/2024]