Thursday June 4, 2009, 12:23 am
The highest officials in our government have trampled on our traditional ideals of making America a nation of laws, not of men, by illegally narrowing the scope of torture and authorizing waterboarding, walling and other inhumane interrogation techniques. In doing so, they violated the Anti-Torture Act, the War Crimes Act, the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment.

In order to enforce our laws and restore the free society that our forefathers envisioned, citizens must demand accountability for abuses of the laws pertaining to torture. In the tradition of the Civil Rights movement, change will not occur unless citizens stand up for their rights under the law.

On June 25th join us for an international day of demonstration demanding accountability for torture, Torture Accountability Action Day, sponsored by:

Action Center for Justice
After Downing Street
Amnesty International
Coalition for Peace Action
Code Pink
Consumers for Peace
Democrats.com
Historians Against the War
IndictBushNow
National Accountability Network
National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance
NJ Peace Action
NJ People's Organization for Progress
Peace Action
Progressive Democrats of America
The Torture Abolition Survivors Support Coalition
US Labor Against War
Veterans for Peace
Washington Peace Center
We Are Change LA
Witness Against Torture
World Can't Wait

For Torture Accountability Events, visit site. -----------------------------------------------

OK guys, we have been tollerating, but not liking, the Bushco lies...Here is a positive chance for you to make it known that you want justice for the world and the tortured...Cheney recently admitted publicly that the Iraq war was founded on lies...He is therefore a self confessed accomplice, responsible for tha deaths of Americans and Iraqis alike...

Already guilty of this heinous crime but seemingly bulletproof to justice...

How many petitions have you signed calling for basic human rights to be restored, as yet, to no avail?...

This is your chance to really have your say! (Read the sponsor list above, this is no mean protest)...I am unable to attend but would if I could...
(Thousands of miles, no dollars prohibits)...

If you are unable to find an event near you, why not forward this to your friends in the hope that, maybe, one of them will attend...Every single person counts!...

Thursday June 4, 2009, 12:32 am
Bear in mind that people, like you, shut down the Vietnam war...It is possible that without the loud intervention of "we the people" it may well still be running...

The Bushadministration is well and truly guilty of war crimes but the US government appears to find it easier to put this on the back burner and ignore justice...Justice that would re-instate America in the eyes of the world, justice for the tortured and justice for mankind...

Thursday June 4, 2009, 12:53 pm
I wish there was a way I could get down there.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 4:13 pm
May all go well I'll be pulling for success all the way.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 5:12 pm
noted thank you

Thursday June 4, 2009, 5:21 pm
thay owe you a gold note because i clicked on the gold note

Thursday June 4, 2009, 5:41 pm
Forcing politicians to admit they were wrong hits their majorities...and votes equals pension rights. In the UK we are embroiled in the total corruption of most of our MPs who have been fiddling the expenses which is theft in my book. In the US a whole Administration was involved manipulating the truth (e.g. Lying) about their involvement in enhanced interrogation (e.g Medieval torture) while claiming to be protecting democracy and freedom.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 8:08 pm
I will be there in spirit. Thanks for all you do David.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 8:26 pm
If the death penalty doesn't deter crime in America, then attaining justice against those who are responsible will not End torture, it will only serve justice upon "some" of the involved, indviduals. I agree with the point of justice towards accountability, but in my opinion, that title is very misleading. Ending torture, is Ending the atrocities of today, within all the "unknown" gitmos around the globe that must be shut down.
Noted and thank you.

Friday June 5, 2009, 1:57 am
Perhaps if they don't admit to their crimes we should use some simple methods known to all of us.
After all it is legal right?

Friday June 5, 2009, 2:23 am
And may Justice be done!

Friday June 5, 2009, 2:50 pm
what about the torture that al-queda/taliban have done to U.S and coalition forces??..we dont hear much about that because after they are tortured they are usually killed...now what these extremists do is real torture with lasting harm....

Friday June 5, 2009, 2:57 pm
Posted this in the Amnesty International and Veterans For Peace Care2 groups, the national groups are included in the list.

David, this is an INTERNATIONAL day of protest; there may even be a demo near where you live that you can get to!

Friday June 5, 2009, 6:56 pm
Noted , thanks !!

Saturday June 6, 2009, 9:41 am
If the world does not create an opinion against this mentality, obviously this will be an adapted method to silence. The opposition in the United States or abroad can be a dominated power against every nation and will create threatening to every individual who believes in equality and justice.

Sunday June 21, 2009, 11:16 am
Update from the same organisation:

Division News For Real June 20, 2009
Watch your head as we pass, once again, through the Washington looking
glass. It's a world where up is down, black is white and everyday is
someone's un-birthday. Today is waterboarding is illegal day.... not for
those in government who did it against suspected terrorists, mind you. No,
that would just be wrong. Today waterboarding is illegal for those who just
want to demonstrate it on volunteers so everyone can see how much un-fun it
really is.
One would think that Mad Hatter Dick and Cheshire Cat George were still in
charge of Washingtonland. One would. One could. And maybe, if this keeps up,
one should.
See below and then have a nice weekend.
Steve

U.S. Govt. Threatens to Prosecute Waterboarding By David Swanson

We've been lobbying the Department of Justice all these months without
realizing that the key to justice lay in the Department of the Interior, and
specifically in the National Park Service, which has told activist Steve
Lane he will be prosecuted if he attempts to demonstrate waterboarding at
Thursday's anti-torture rally in Washington, D.C. The permit for the rally
reads "Waterboarding exhibit will not be allowed for safety reasons."
Of course it's not news that the government views waterboarding as a crime.
Attorney General Eric Holder called it torture at his confirmation hearings.
But it is news that someone has been threatened with prosecution if he
engages in torture. We learn about ongoing torture by the government all the
time, and we're told all the time that torture is no longer official policy,
and yet in neither type of story is there ever any suggestion that the laws
against torture might be enforced, now or in the future. In the government's
view, torture must be less safe when performed without the benefit of
government resources, doctors, lawyers, psychologists, videographers, and
vice presidents. However, street demonstrations of waterboarding have yet to
produce a single corpse to add to the pile produced by official U.S.
government torture.
Other crimes in Washington are also crimes if you or I commit them, but not
if someone else does. When a group of us ordinary citizens spoke against the
wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine in the lobby of a senate office
building on January 6th of this year (video) we were hauled off to jail.
Bill Moyers' Journal covered the story (video). But when tourist groups are
spoken to by senators in the same lobby, no crime occurs (video). I'm not
talking about the people who hung banners from the balconies, or the
passersby who cheered. I'm talking about those of us who stood and read the
names of the dead. Seventeen of us (including some who hung banners) were
arrested. Some of us paid a fine. On Monday, four face prosecution for
unlawful assembly even though freedom of assembly is guaranteed in the
Constitution, while warrantless wiretapping -- just to pick one example of
ongoing government crimes -- is banned by the Constitution.
The greatest hypocrisy is not that tour groups can make noise whereas
citizens with a political message cannot. The greatest hypocrisy is not that
our president is speaking up for protesters as long as they are in Iran,
while the Pentagon considers protesting to constitute "low level terrorism"
when practiced within the United States. The greatest hypocrisy is that laws
are being enforced while the most important laws and the most egregious
violations are being ignored as a matter of loudly announced principle. When
Laurie Arbeiter, Robbie Diesu, Michelle Grise, and Pete Perry appear in
court on Monday they will not be able to ask the judge to stop looking
backward, even though their "crimes" occurred in January. They will not be
able to accuse the judge of petty vengeance for his or her refusal to "look
forward." They will be compelled to face the question of whether they
violated a law. (Never mind that the Capitol Police arrested us and then
figured out hours later something they could most plausibly charge us with.)

Meanwhile, Dick Cheney confesses to felonies every time he opens his mouth,
a civil suit against John Yoo has produced a 42-page order that could easily
serve as an indictment, and the families our drones keep bombing in
Afghanistan could never be persuaded that reading the names of the dead is
the most serious crime that has occurred. The House has impeached a judge
for groping despite his already having been convicted in court. But another
judge responsible for torture is permitted to continue ruling on cases.
Here are two ideas to try to straighten our priorities out:
First, call Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth A. Meyers and ask that the
charges against those who read the names of the dead be dropped:
202-727-3500 or 202-727-4783.
Second, take part in Torture Accountability Action Day on Thursday, June
25th, by joining our rally and march in Washington, D.C., (11 a.m. at John
Marshall Park) or any of the rallies happening around the country on the
same day:

http://tortureaccountability.webs.com/eventsacrossus.htm