Urgent Please sign this petition to release the 4 Cpt workers in Iraq

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http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/freethecpt

List of signatories :

Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things
Tariq Ali, author, Bush in Babylon
Denis Halliday, former U.N. Assistant Secretary General and Head of the U.N. Humanitarian Program in Iraq (1997-1998)
Cindy Sheehan, mother of Casey Sheehan
Noam Chomsky, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Haifa Zangana, Iraqi novelist
Kamil Mahdi, Iraqi economist and anti-occupation activist. Lecturer, University of Exeter
Mahmood Mamdani, "Herbert Lehman Professor of Government," Columbia University
Rashid Khalidi, "Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies," Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie, killed by Israeli military
Hasan Abu Nimah, Permanent Representative of Jordan at the United Nations (1995-2000)
Ralph Nader, former independent presidential candidate
James Abourezk, former US Senator
Howard Zinn, historian
Naseer Aruri, Professor (Emeritus) University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence/Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Naomi Klein, author/journalist
Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, poet
Jeremy Scahill, independent journalist
Mazin Qumsiyeh, author, Sharing the Land Of Canaan, board member US Campaign to End the Occupation
Milan Rai, author, War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War on Iraq
Sam Husseini, writer
Dahr Jamail, independent journalist
Ali Abunimah & Nigel Parry, Co-founders, Electronic Iraq
Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator, United for Peace and Justice
Eve Ensler, author
Jennifer Harbury, Director, Stop Torture Permanently Campaign
Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Detroit
Anthony Arnove, author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
G. Simon Harak, SJ, War Resisters League
David Hartsough, Co-Founder and Capacity Building Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce and Executive Director of Peaceworkers. Nonviolent Peace Force
Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas
Carol Bragg, Coordinator, Rhode Island Peace Mission
Rev. Richard Deats, former Executive Secretary and Fellowship Editor, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Omar Diop, Président de la Coalition Sénégalaise des Défenseurs des Droits humains
Jim Forest, Secretary, The Orthodox Peace Fellowship
Thomas C. Cornell, The Catholic Worker
David Grant, Nonviolent Peaceforce
Ted Lewis, Global Exchange
Charles Jenks, Chair of Advisory Board, Traprock Peace Center
Jeff Leys, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Andréa Schmidt, independent journalist
Michael Albert, ZNet
Richard McDowell, Senior Fellow for Iraq Policy, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Dave McReynolds, former Chair, War Resisters International
Peter Lems, Program Associate for Iraq, American Friends Service Committee
Kevin Zeese, Director, Democracy Rising
Sunny Miller, Director, Traprock Peace Center
Dave Robinson, Director, Pax Christi USA
Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, National Coordinator, Clergy and Laity Concerned about Iraq
David Swanson, Co-Founder, After Downing Street, Board Member Progressive Democrats of America, Washington Director Democrats.com
Mary Trotochaud, Senior Fellow for Iraq Policy, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Michael Birmingham, activist
Barbara Wien, Co-Director, Peace Brigades International/USA
Bishop Gabino Zavala, President, Pax Christi USA

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1. A petition. That'll do it. n/t

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2. As opposed to what you or the US govt. are doing about it?

You don't have to sign it but you might want to look at this interview on Democracy Now
This has to do with our govt. policies.




http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/05/1455248
Here is an excerpt from the interview:

MICHAEL RATNER: Well, I have two thoughts here. One is it just shows what a bankrupt policy, like the United States has of kidnapping and torturing people, results in. It results in the inability of anyone, really, of the United States government, to come forward and say, don't do this, because now we have no moral and legal authority to do that. And the second thing it results in, which is amazing to me, is here you see Palestinians and other Muslims demonstrating for the freedom of the four Peacemakers, which is a remarkable thing, and yet you don't see that kind of reaction of Americans and others demonstrating for the freedom or the trial or real due process of people at Guantanamo and in other sites around the world. So, I think we should take a lesson from the fact that Muslims and Palestinians and others are demonstrating for the freedom of these four and say to our own population, just like those four should not be kidnapped, neither should we be kidnapping, we, the United States, people all over the world and putting them in detention camps.

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3. Yeah, being a smart ass is a real solution I guess.

Signed.

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4. What else can WE do?

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5. signed... and kicked... n/t

[Ian David]

6. Done. Nominated.

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7. Thanks, This petition is supported by PDA and many others such as:

David Swanson, Co-Founder, After Downing Street, Board Member Progressive Democrats of America, Washington Director Democrats.com

Cindy Sheehan, mother of Casey Sheehan

Noam Chomsky, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Naomi Klein, author/journalist

Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator, United for Peace and Justice

Howard Zinn, historian

Michael Albert, ZNet


among others

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8. Any of the right-wing organizations worried about "persecuted christians"?

Are any of them supporting this?

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9. No, Rush was telling his ditto heads that this one instance that

kidnapping is OK.

Rush in quotes:
"Well, here's why I like it. I like any time a bunch of leftist feel-good hand-wringers are shown reality." http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/


Christians Kidnapped. Rush: "I like this."
Sarah Posner

When I heard the news about four members of the humanitarian group Christian Peacemaker Teams being kidnapped in Iraq, I wondered if the Christian right PR machine -- ever concerned about persecution of Christians worldwide -- would come to the rescue.

I guess not. You see, CPT wasn't in Iraq to proselytize, or to make sure that there weren't any Iraqi dudes kissing each other. Instead, CPT has been on the ground in Iraq since before the invasion, documenting cases of human rights violations and working toward nonviolent treatment of detainees. CPT's work has been so groundbreaking that the group scooped Seymour Hersh on Abu Ghraib. On this morning's Democracy Now, Hersh said:

I ran across them when I was looking into the torture issue at Abu Ghraib, and I remember distinctly that they were on a cutting edge. I talked to people in the organization who had been active for years in total, you know, under the radar of all of us, because they didn't have photographs. They were very interested, for example, very early on in the unwarranted use of dogs in interrogations by American troops. And most of the things that I ended up writing about in Abu Ghraib, most of the general concepts, they knew a great deal about earlier, as did Human Rights Watch and Amnesty. So, these are people toiling, really for the good of Iraqi -- the Iraqi people, and often in -- as I say, in obscurity, in terms of the mainstream media.

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10. I smell American complicity in this kidnapping

I'd bet the kidnappers got a "tip" from someone that these were spies, because our own government wanted them out of the way.

Why not?

Haven't we actually done worse?

This sickens me.

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11. No doubt that one of Negroponte's groups he set up in Iraq did this.

These guys were on Abu Ghraib before Seymour Hersh they were not

in Iraq to proselytize so I am amazed that even "christians" here
are not responding to this post.

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12. signed nt

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13. thanks n/t

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14. Signed, K & R (link to another petition & prayer vigils, demonstrations)

Help Release Christian Peacemaker Team Members: http://ga3.org/campaign/releasehostages (more info from Faithful America @ http://ga3.org/campaign/releasehostages/explanation )

Prayer Vigils and Demonstrations: http://www.cpt.org/iraq/response/PrayerVigils.htm

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15. kick unashamed kick n/t