Countdown: Special Comment to President Obama, You're Wrong on Torture Prosecutions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTLi7j0T9HQ ----- From: Brasscheck TV Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 2:25 PM Subject: Brasscheck TV: Obama gives government criminals a free pass
We shouldn't base the future on "hope." Following the rule of law would be a better foundation. Obama has decreed that where torture is concerned, the rule of law is not worth pursuing. The criminals who operated the US torture program are being given a free pass. http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/602.html ###### "Demanding that political leaders be subjected to the rule of law -- -- and finding ways to force the appointment of a Special Prosecutor -- is ... " The Significance of Obama's Decision to Release the Torture Memos Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com April 17, 2009 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/17-7 Jason Leopold | Torture Memos Revealed http://www.truthout.org/041709A ###### Obama and Holder Must Prosecute War Crimes or Become Guilty of Them Themselves 03/03/2009 - dlindorff The dithering and ducking going on in the Obama White House and the Holder Justice Department over the crimes of the Bush administration are taking on a comic aspect. On the one hand, we have President Obama assuring us that under his administration, there will be respect for the rule of law, and on the other hand we have this one-time constitutional law professor and his attorney general declaiming that there is no need for the appointment of a prosecutor to bring charges against the people in the last administration, in the CIA, in the National Security Agency and in the Defense Department and the military who clearly have broken the law in serious and felonious ways. What gets silly is that America is either a nation of laws.or it isn't. It is either a place where "nobody is above the law".or it isn't. There is really no middle ground here. Read more http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/278 No Amnesty for Torturers By Dave Lindorff The issue is, do we as a nation now subscribe to the idea that the way to deal with evil perpetrated by ourselves is to bury it? [. . .] Isn't that precisely what we have been for decades accusing the Germans and the Japanese of doing: burying in the mists of time their criminal behavior as a people and as a nation? [. . .] the president is wrong. Darkness does not go away when the fog comes. It just gets darker. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22443.htm ##### Obama 'owns' Bush 'war crimes' if he looks the other way video & text commentary: http://911blogger.com/node/19067 Who Did 9/11? We Need To Know! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LibertyBandwagon/message/34638 Identify The Enemy! Ever since 9/11 || America is Simply Losing It Folks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GovernmentShadow/message/32210 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GovernmentShadow/message/31656 ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
