[Vision2020] Human Rights Activists: Obama Breaks Promise

[Sunil Ramalingam]

I think Obama wants to avoid this whole issue if he can; the analysis Tim provided is accurate, I think.

I also oppose his continued bombings in Pakistan. These are consistent with what he said during his campaign, so they're not a broken promise, but I don't know how bombing someone else's country isn't an act of war.

Sunil

> From: timlohr at bresnan.net
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 09:02:09 -0600
> Subject: [Vision2020] Human Rights Activists: Obama Breaks Promise
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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:
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> "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.
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> "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.
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> "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.'
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> "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."
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> 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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