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The Associated Press is reporting the same thing.<BR>
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This sickens me beyond words. How dare Obama cow-tow to the middle-of-the-road conservatives by attempting to sweep the torture topic under the proverbial rug behind the guise of his "Let's move on" approach.<BR>
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Tom Hansen<BR>
Moscow, idaho<BR> <BR>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go to work."</FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>- Roy Zimmerman</FONT></P><BR><BR><BR>
<BR>> From: timlohr@bresnan.net<BR>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 09:02:09 -0600<BR>> Subject: [Vision2020] Human Rights Activists: Obama Breaks Promise<BR>> <BR>> Vid. Clip:<BR>> http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=339853<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Story:<BR>> Obama Breaks Major Campaign Promise as Military Commissions Resume, Says <BR>> Amnesty International<BR>> <BR>> http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090515.DC17891&show_article=1<BR>> <BR>> May 15 12:25 PM US/Eastern<BR>> <BR>> Obama Restarting Bush-Era Terror Tribunals<BR>> Tribunal Decision Angers Obama’s Liberal Backers<BR>> <BR>> Human Rights Organization Reiterates Call for Detainees to be Tried in U.S. <BR>> Federal Courts<BR>> <BR>> WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to President Barack <BR>> Obama restarting the military commissions at the U.S.-controlled detention <BR>> facility in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International's executive director Larry <BR>> Cox issued the following statement:<BR>> <BR>> "President Obama is reinstating the same deeply-flawed military commissions <BR>> that in June 2008 he called an 'enormous failure.' In one swift move, Obama <BR>> both backtracks on a major campaign promise to change the way the United <BR>> States fights terrorism and undermines the nation's core respect for the rule <BR>> of law by sacrificing due process for political expediency.<BR>> <BR>> "Whatever revisions the Obama administration has made to the commissions do <BR>> not change the fact that the commissions do not provide an adequate standard <BR>> of justice for the detainees nor the victims of terrorism -- they merely mock <BR>> the U.S. Constitution, international laws and undermine fundamental human <BR>> rights standards.<BR>> <BR>> "What happened to President Obama's confidence in the U.S. justice system's <BR>> ability to try detainees? He himself said that 'we need not throw away 200 <BR>> years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism.'<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> "U.S. federal courts are a perfectly sound system to try any and all <BR>> detainees. They have brought other terror suspects to justice, and there is no <BR>> reason why these courts cannot continue to do the same."<BR>> <BR>> Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist <BR>> organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers <BR>> in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The <BR>> organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the <BR>> public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and <BR>> dignity are denied.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> For more information, please visit: www.amnestyusa.org<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> SOURCE Amnesty International<BR>> Copyright 2009 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>> http://www.fsr.net <BR>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> =======================================================<BR></body>
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