[Vision2020] Human Rights Activists: Obama Breaks Promise

[Tom Hansen]

Tim Lohrmann?

Wow!!

Speak of a flash from the past?!?!?

What's up, Tim?  Whatcha been up to?  How are things?

Rumor has it that KUOI's demographics have been reduced to some old
retired gardener in Genessee who listens to KUOI only to keep the voices
in his head in tune.

Wheenya gonna be back on the air, big guy?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


> Vid. Clip:
> http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=339853
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> Story:
> Obama Breaks Major Campaign Promise as Military Commissions Resume, Says
> Amnesty International
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> http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090515.DC17891&show_article=1
>
> May 15 12:25 PM US/Eastern
>
> Obama Restarting Bush-Era Terror Tribunals
> Tribunal Decision Angers Obama’s Liberal Backers
>
> Human Rights Organization Reiterates Call for Detainees to be Tried in
> U.S.
> Federal Courts
>
> WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to President
> Barack
> Obama restarting the military commissions at the U.S.-controlled detention
> facility in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International's executive director
> Larry
> Cox issued the following statement:
>
> "President Obama is reinstating the same deeply-flawed military
> commissions
> that in June 2008 he called an 'enormous failure.' In one swift move,
> Obama
> both backtracks on a major campaign promise to change the way the United
> States fights terrorism and undermines the nation's core respect for the
> rule
> of law by sacrificing due process for political expediency.
>
> "Whatever revisions the Obama administration has made to the commissions
> do
> not change the fact that the commissions do not provide an adequate
> standard
> of justice for the detainees nor the victims of terrorism -- they merely
> mock
> the U.S. Constitution, international laws and undermine fundamental human
> rights standards.
>
> "What happened to President Obama's confidence in the U.S. justice
> system's
> ability to try detainees? He himself said that 'we need not throw away 200
> years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism.'
>
>
> "U.S. federal courts are a perfectly sound system to try any and all
> detainees. They have brought other terror suspects to justice, and there
> is no
> reason why these courts cannot continue to do the same."
>
> Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist
> organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and
> volunteers
> in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The
> organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the
> public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and
> dignity are denied.
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> For more information, please visit: www.amnestyusa.org
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> SOURCE Amnesty International
> Copyright 2009 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved.
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