10th Anniv. of Torture memo Aug 1st 11am to 1pm Downtown Fed Building, MInneapolis
Wednesday, August 1, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Minneapolis Federal Building, 4th Avenue and 4th Street, Minneapolis.
Please join Tackling Torture at the Top (T3) and others, to protest the lack of accountability at the top for those who authorized torture in our name.
We will conduct Bruce Fein's and Bill Moyers' "Reckoning with Torture" readings along with a showing of our "Magna Carta Turned to Minor Carta". Torture is wrong!!
The tenth anniversary of the Jay Bybee memo, providing legal cover for torture is August 1, 2012, with the Bush Administration acting quickly to implement the enhanced interrogation techniques under this legal cover.
We need closure, with investigations, prosecutions and convictions. We need to all speak up and stand together to demand justice. Sponsored by: T3. FFI: Call WAMM at 612-827-5364.
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http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2012/07/26/free-speech-zone-it-has-been-ten-years
BY SONJA JOHNSON, TC DAILY PLANET
July 26, 2012
On August 1, it will be ten years since our government sanctioned torture with the infamous torture memos. Have we lost our way? Based on this sordid anniversary, it seems our moral compass is nowhere to be found. On that day, the Golden Rule was dismissed. The Golden Rule was the basis of how humans treated one another and it was honored by all religions and cultures. Out of that moral sense laws and treaties were born - from the Magna Carta to our Constitution, from the Geneva Conventions and Convention Against Torture to our laws. It seemed written in stone which could not be ignored. But something happened to our moral compass on September 11, 2001 - fear became our compass.
In 2002, the Geneva Conventions were called obsolete by some in our government. In regard to how we treated others, our Constitution and laws were dismissed because of “9/11.” 2002 was not a good year for us. By August 1, 2002, we sank to the level of thinking that torture was necessary and we entered into a regime of torture. That’s how fear worked its way into our lives. We have yet to return to our moral compass.
The questions loom over our heads. Why was torture introduced into our way of life when we had championed the leadership of human rights around the world? Why did we succumb to our fear? Why have we become morally bankrupt yet try to hang on to the “exceptional” myth? And finally, what does this mean for our future; how does torture affect our lives and our children’s lives, our culture?
