A People's Silence Is A People's Complicity

[unhappycamper]

A People's Silence Is A People's Complicity
10.13.10 - 9:06 AM

All this week a diverse coalition in Berkeley, Ca. - where John Yoo "teaches law" - is holding "No to Torture" events dubbed "a week of conscience and community in action against the crime of torture." Noting that many of the abuses committed under Bush/Cheney - torture and "the shredding of basic legal and human rights for whole 'enemy' populations" -are continuing today, organizers hope that other communities will use their model to raise "a multitude of voices and actions against torture."

Why support these events? "Because we are living in a country where torturers are allowed to walk free, and the use of torture has come to be "debatable." Because torture has been government-sponsored and presidentially approved. Because, in fact, torture is a war crime and a crime against humanity."

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[WillParkinson]

2. Added a K & R

For a net total of 0 rec's.

[mmonk]

3. Recommended.

Hopefully, the recommends will add up. I would like to think at least here, they will.

[Solly Mack]

12. Thank you

[Hannah Bell]

4. knr - where torturers are allowed to walk free, and the use of torture has come to be "debatable."

[xchrom]

5. recommend -- either we are a nation of laws or we are not. nt

[tavalon]

7. We are a nation in which laws are enforced based on class

Sell weed - go to prison. Invent terms like enhanced interrogation and extraordinary rendition - stay free and go on a book tour or teach "law" at Berkeley. It astounds and appalls but it is also a truth we know. The haves continue to have and the have nots go to jail.

[Toots]

11. Not if Laws were broken yesterday, must look forward

:shrug: My greatest disappointment in Obama.

[tavalon]

6. Yeah, when in the world did it become a debate?

[pinboy3niner]

8. K&R

[Lost4words]

9. our shame, K & R! nt

[political_Dem]

10. K and R.