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10/28/2009
83 Human Rights Groups and Leaders Call for U.S. Congress to
Take Action on Torture
CONTACT: david@davidswanson.org
ONLINE: http://afterdowningstreet.org/stop
A Call for U.S. Congress to Take Action on Torture
Whereas over seven years have passed since President George W. Bush
fraudulently induced the U.S. congress, the American people, and
the world into the illegal war in Iraq,
Whereas it is nearly five years since Specialist Darby revealed the
photos of Abu Ghraib that showed us torture being committed by our
government in our name,
Whereas further evidence of torture remains secret and has been
hidden from the public, courts, and Congress to insulate the
perpetrators from appropriate criminal liability,
Whereas over the past years we have campaigned about the illegality
of this war and the need to prosecute the high-level civilian and
military officials who put in place the torture,
Whereas, notwithstanding all the congressional hearings and reports
so far on these matters, those officials have not been brought to
justice,
Whereas a prosecutor has been appointed to address only a very
small number, perhaps as few as three, of the crimes committed and
none of the crimes "justified" by the clearly illegal torture
memos,
Whereas the Department of Justice’s limited investigation of
torture threatens to invite more torture around the world by
undermining the Nuremberg precedent,
Whereas the Attorney General of the United States, under the
influence of the President, appears unwilling to follow the facts
about the illegal war in Iraq and torture to the full extent of the
law,
Whereas we as citizens of the United States do not accept the
damage to our country's honor committed by these persons, the
threats to the lives and well-being of our children and fellow
citizens sent to illegal wars, and the transformation of our
country from a beacon of liberty to a beacon of torture,
WE NOW CALL FOR ACTION:
1. We call on Congress to start impeachment proceedings against
Judge Jay Bybee of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit, as it is unconscionable that one who encouraged violations
of such fundamental laws as those against torture and aggressive
war be trusted to apply and shape the law.
2. We call on congressional committees to subpoena those
responsible for aggressive war and torture, including former
president Bush, vice president Cheney, and other former senior
officials complicit in war crimes; and to enforce those subpoenas
through the Capitol Police, rather than the Department of
Justice.
3. We call on state bar associations to begin the process of
revoking the law licenses of those lawyers who put in place the
legal analysis for the illegal war and the torture.
4. We call on state licensing authorities to begin the process of
revoking the licenses of all other professionals who participated
in the torture such as psychologists, psychiatrists and other
doctors.
5. We call on the American people to contact their congressional
representatives and insist that, on our watch, the high, who are
the instigators of illegal wars and torture, will be brought low,
and that low-level personnel will not be the only ones prosecuted
for committing crimes authorized and encouraged by their
superiors.
SIGNED BY:
Robert H. Jackson Steering Committee
Action Center For Justice
After Downing Street
AngryVoters.Org
Backbone Campaign
Bend-Condega Friendship Project
Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo
College of Law
Berkeley Fellowship Unitarian Universalists Social Justice
Committee
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
BuzzFlash.com
Campus Antiwar Network, Ole Miss
Center for Constitutional Rights
Chelsea Neighbors United to End the War, New York City
Chesapeake Citizens
Christiane Brown, The Solution Zone, KJFK
Citizens For Legitimate Government
CODE PINK: Women for Peace
Code Pink Portland
Marjorie Cohn, Professor, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Collateral Repair Project
Consumers for Peace
Defending Dissent Foundation
Democracy for America - Tucson
Democracy for NYC
Democracy In Action (DIA)
Democrats.com
Democratic Activist blog
Docudharma
Eastside FOR
The Enviro Show,WXOJ-LP/WMCB
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
High Road for Human Rights
Humanists for Peace
IndictBushNow.org
Instruments For Peace
Jobs For Afghans
Justice Through Music
Liberty Tree Foundation
The Make America Again Project
Media With Conscience
Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Nashville Peace Coalition
Nicole Sandler, RadioOrNot.com
NC Democrats Network
New York Metro Progressives
North Country Coalition for Justice and Peace
Northeast Impeachment Coalition
OpEdNews.com
Oregon PeaceWorks
Peace & Justice Forums, Billings, Montana
The People's Email Network
PoetsWest (Seattle)
Progressive Democrats of America
Progressives Democrats of New York, 14th CD
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
PDA/DFA Progressive Democracy South Jersey
Progressive Democrats Sonoma County
The Progressive magazine
Rebublicans For Impeachment
Reclaim The GOP
RiseUpTampaBay.com
Sitkans for Peace and Justice
Squadron13.com
SUV Network (Seniors United for Victory)
ThisCantBeHappening.net
Topanga Peace Alliance
Topplebush.com
Transylvanians for Peace of Brevard, NC
True Blue Network
Uncommon Thought Journal
Velvet Revolution
VeteransAgainstTorture.com
Veterans For Peace Chapter 099
Veterans For Peace Chicago Chapter 26
Voices of Conscience
Voters for Peace
War Crimes Times
War Criminals Watch
Washington for Impeachmen
t Hazel Weiser, Executive Director Society of American Law Teachers
-- SALT
Western North Carolina Stop Torture Now
Young Americans for Liberty at Ole Miss
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10/28/2009
Study finds quake risk at Los Alamos
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-plutonium-los-alamos28-2009oct28,0,6966430.story
A big earthquake and resultant fire could trigger potentially
deadly releases of radioactive materials from Los Alamos National
Laboratory in New Mexico due to "major deficiencies" in the nuclear
weapons lab's safety planning, federal safety experts warned
Tuesday... writes Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times
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