From: Sharron Williams: This is an opportunity We The People need to see as a responsibility. I hope you will participate in this site with your own ideas as well as casting a vote to keep David Swanson's extensive idea on ending the imperial presidency way on top of the list. Thanks...and enjoy!
----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:[email protected]>AfterDowningStreet.org AfterDowningStreet.org <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52265396400>We're on Facebook and <http://www.youtube.com/afterdowningstreet>Youtube and <http://twitter.com/davidcnswanson>Twitter In This Email: 1. Open Government Extends Hours 2. Can You Understand Rape Without Seeing the Photos? 1. Open Government Extends Hours You Can Still Vote After Voting Has Ended! Hours Extended By Lack of Popular Demand The president's open government site was supposed to allow brainstorming through May 28th, but the top policy proposal and third highest ranked proposal overall, as of the end of the 28th, was "<http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3161-4049>End the Imperial Presidency." It is not too late for you to vote for this proposal. <http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3161-4049>http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3161-4049 at <http://www.whitehouse.gov/open>http://www.whitehouse.gov/open (Log in and then click the thumbs-up beside the proposal.) That's because the Open Government just changed the rules and won't be moving on to phase 2 until June 3rd, and will be leaving phase 1 (brainstorming) open until June 19th. Of course the Open Government had openly announced that the brainstorming would be open only from May 21 to May 28. Now it is entirely possible that other ideas will move to the top by June 3rd or June 19th (or another date to be announced later - the government's not so open that we know these things). It's also entirely possible that prosecuting Bush and Cheney and ending the imperial presidency will remain where it is or climb even higher. The outcome is really up to you. How many people can you send <http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3161-4049>this link to? <http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3161-4049>http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3161-4049 <http://www.wavelengthclothing.com/impeach_bush.html>Special Deals on New Shirt: http://www.wavelengthclothing.com/impeach_bush.html 2. Can You Understand Rape Without Seeing the Photos? It's been five years since Republican and Democratic senators, generals, and reporters told us about the rape photos. We know that there were rapes and photos (and videos). We just haven't seen the photos (or videos). Are we going to openly tell each other that we can't be upset until we see images? <http://prosecutebushcheney.org> OR WILL WE ACT? <http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-29/torture-photos-depict-sex-rape/>Update on rape photos from Scott Horton: "The Daily Beast has confirmed that the photographs of abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which President Obama, in a reversal, decided not to release, depict sexually explicit acts, including a uniformed soldier receiving oral sex from a female prisoner, a government contractor engaged in an act of sodomy with a male prisoner and scenes of forced masturbation, forced exhibition, and penetration involving phosphorous sticks and brooms." And on video: <http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/924-taguba-saw-video-of-male-soldier-sodmizing-female-detainee.html>Gen. Taguba Saw Video of Male Soldier Sodomizing Female Detainee. Read this: <http://www.truthout.org/052909L>Torture and Truth, by Jonathan Schell. And this: <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/busted-pentagon-why-the-p_b_209046.html>Busted, Pentagon: Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped, by Naomi Wolf. Also, Levin joins Feingold in saying he's seen the memos Cheney claims he wants and that <http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/levin-calls-cheney-a-liar-on-torture.php>Cheney is lying. <http://prosecutebushcheney.org>WILL WE ACT? <http://prosecutebushcheney.org>http://prosecutebushcheney.org The United Nations thinks we should: <http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/29/un_report/>U.N. calls U.S. human rights record "deplorable": "A refusal to look back inevitably means moving forward in blindness." ***** Support Justice and Peace: Click "Donate" in the upper left corner of <http://afterdowningstreet.org>http://afterdowningstreet.org Please help us inform you of activities in your town by logging in at <http://afterdowningstreet.org>http://afterdowningstreet.org Then click on "My account", on "Edit", and on "Personal Information," and type in your state and zip code. 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