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Author: | Gordon Sturrock [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:24 am ] |
Post subject: | A Call for Congress to Take Action on Torture |
Please vote your support for this. If there is a strong consensus for supporting it, we'll add VeteransForJustice as an endorser of this action. I've already got Squadron13 and VeteransAgainstTorture signed on. Gordon A Call for Congress to Take Action on Torture October 28th, 2009 source: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/stop Whereas over seven years have passed since President George W. Bush fraudulently induced the U.S. congress, the American people, and the world into the illegal war in Iraq, Whereas it is nearly five years since Specialist Darby revealed the photos of Abu Ghraib that showed us torture being committed by our government in our name, Whereas further evidence of torture remains secret and has been hidden from the public, courts, and Congress to insulate the perpetrators from appropriate criminal liability, Whereas over the past years we have campaigned about the illegality of this war and the need to prosecute the high-level civilian and military officials who put in place the torture, Whereas, notwithstanding all the congressional hearings and reports so far on these matters, those officials have not been brought to justice, Whereas a prosecutor has been appointed to address only a very small number, perhaps as few as three, of the crimes committed and none of the crimes "justified" by the clearly illegal torture memos, Whereas the Department of Justice’s limited investigation of torture threatens to invite more torture around the world by undermining the Nuremberg precedent, Whereas the Attorney General of the United States, under the influence of the President, appears unwilling to follow the facts about the illegal war in Iraq and torture to the full extent of the law, Whereas we as citizens of the United States do not accept the damage to our country's honor committed by these persons, the threats to the lives and well-being of our children and fellow citizens sent to illegal wars, and the transformation of our country from a beacon of liberty to a beacon of torture, WE NOW CALL FOR ACTION: 1. We call on Congress to start impeachment proceedings against Judge Jay Bybee of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as it is unconscionable that one who encouraged violations of such fundamental laws as those against torture and aggressive war be trusted to apply and shape the law. 2. We call on congressional committees to subpoena those responsible for aggressive war and torture, including former president Bush, vice president Cheney, and other former senior officials complicit in war crimes; and to enforce those subpoenas through the Capitol Police, rather than the Department of Justice. 3. We call on state bar associations to begin the process of revoking the law licenses of those lawyers who put in place the legal analysis for the illegal war and the torture. 4. We call on state licensing authorities to begin the process of revoking the licenses of all other professionals who participated in the torture such as psychologists, psychiatrists and other doctors. 5. We call on the American people to contact their congressional representatives and insist that, on our watch, the high, who are the instigators of illegal wars and torture, will be brought low, and that low-level personnel will not be the only ones prosecuted for committing crimes authorized and encouraged by their superiors. SIGNED BY: Robert H. Jackson Steering Committee Action Center For Justice After Downing Street AngryVoters.Org Backbone Campaign Bend-Condega Friendship Project Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law Berkeley Fellowship Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee Bill of Rights Defense Committee BuzzFlash.com Campus Antiwar Network, Ole Miss Center for Constitutional Rights Chelsea Neighbors United to End the War, New York City Chesapeake Citizens Christiane Brown, The Solution Zone, KJFK Citizens For Legitimate Government CODE PINK: Women for Peace Code Pink Portland Marjorie Cohn, Professor, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Collateral Repair Project Consumers for Peace Defending Dissent Foundation Democracy for America - Tucson Democracy for NYC Democracy In Action (DIA) Democrats.com Democratic Activist blog Docudharma Eastside FOR The Enviro Show,WXOJ-LP/WMCB Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space High Road for Human Rights Humanists for Peace IndictBushNow.org Instruments For Peace Jobs For Afghans Justice Through Music Liberty Tree Foundation The Make America Again Project Media With Conscience Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Nashville Peace Coalition Nicole Sandler, RadioOrNot.com NC Democrats Network New York Metro Progressives North Country Coalition for Justice and Peace Northeast Impeachment Coalition OpEdNews.com Oregon PeaceWorks Peace & Justice Forums, Billings, Montana The People's Email Network PoetsWest (Seattle) Progressive Democrats of America Progressives Democrats of New York, 14th CD Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains PDA/DFA Progressive Democracy South Jersey Progressive Democrats Sonoma County The Progressive magazine Rebublicans For Impeachment Reclaim The GOP RiseUpTampaBay.com Sitkans for Peace and Justice Squadron13.com SUV Network (Seniors United for Victory) ThisCantBeHappening.net Topanga Peace Alliance Topplebush.com Transylvanians for Peace of Brevard, NC True Blue Network Uncommon Thought Journal Velvet Revolution VeteransAgainstTorture.com Veterans For Peace Chapter 099 Veterans For Peace Chicago Chapter 26 Voices of Conscience Voters for Peace War Crimes Times War Criminals Watch Washington for Impeachment Hazel Weiser, Executive Director Society of American Law Teachers -- SALT Western North Carolina Stop Torture Now Young Americans for Liberty at Ole Miss |
Author: | Joe Walsh [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:45 am ] | ||
Post subject: | Re: A Call for Congress to Take Action on Torture | ||
Individuals for Justice is now or will be a signature on this wonderful list of activist. You can sign as an individual and I am asking all who read this to do that. We will continue protesting for the impeachment/arrest/conviction of the Torture Judge. We will read the petition at our protest tomorrow and join others in calling for Justice. The reward for the arrest/conviction and incarceration of Judge jay bybee will be raised up to $200.00 tomorrow. Joe
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Author: | Malcolm Chaddock [ Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:47 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: A Call for Congress to Take Action on Torture |
There is a deep sickness that has taken hold in this nation at it's inception. It has been growing in the vitals of America and over time it has poisoned all that we might have been. Greed has been and is now the primary motivator driving this country and this progressive disease has always led it's devotees to more and more extreme behaviors and attitudes with which to facilitate it's depredations. Torture is but one symptom of this- and failure to address the symptoms will inevitably lead to a worsening in the condition of the patient. Currently the patient appears to be in extremis. Recent articles I have read indicate that the so called Justice department is finally, after several years, making noises that seem to indicate that that entity will begin to perhaps address the actions of those who attempted to give legal cover to torture. I would applaud this statement of intent but I have been watching this snakepit we call a government for too long to applaud anything but action, and even then I am wary for much of the action that is taken is meant to mitigate the pressure placed on it, not reform it or even so much as address the causes of the transgression. I will always approve of steps in the right direction but I will never forget the distance we must cross is vast and full of the brutal, fearsome wreckage of decades, centuries of greed. When the fundamental shifts needed to replace this horrific paradigm begin to occur, then perhaps I will rejoice. In the meantime, I will smile grimly at the hope for impeachment or resignation of Jay Bybee et al. and carry on. |
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