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On April 16, 2009, in my blog entry Mr. President, Please! We're Waiting!, I was pretty hard on Mr. President Obama. At the time I wrote that, the "Torture Memos" had not been released yet.
Mr. President, I applaud your decision to share this shameful history with the American People, (even though you waited until the information had already been leaked by secret Red Cross documents). We have a right to know some of what our leaders in the previous administration did to "Detainees" in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, prison ships, and our outsourcing of torture in foreign countries through "renditions".
Now is the time for full disclosure! I very much recommend that everyone who thinks we can now just "look forward", instead of having a Special Prosecutor for Torture, read Ted Rall's ONE NATION, TWO SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE.
Yes, I believe that President Obama has two choices. He can send Bush (and Cheney and Rumsfeldt and others) to prison (The Hague, for International War Crimes Against Humanity), or, as legal scholar Bruce Fein and journalist Mark Danner argued last Friday night on Bill Moyer's Journal, he can pardon each and every one of these well-placed, (although not well-meaning), criminals who tortured and murdered, so far with impugnity, in the name of the American People.
Personally, I would prefer Justice to a Pardon, and I believe America would be better off. I also believe President Obama would not have a second term in office if he decides to pardon these thugs, but that is his decision.
The choice remains. Are there two tiers of Justice in America? Are we a Nation Of Laws? Or will America attempt to exonerate the guilty?
Personally, I believe that if Mr. Clinton was impeached for a friendly BJ, (or even for lying about it), then Mr. Bush's policies on torture might also be considered "High Crimes and Misdemeanors". Since Nancy Pelosi announced, "I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table," on Nov 8, 2006, maybe The Hague is back on the table? Or perhaps Ms. Pelosi doesn't want an investigation to reveal her own role in the torture fiasco?
Mr. President, I applaud your decision to share this shameful history with the American People, (even though you waited until the information had already been leaked by secret Red Cross documents). We have a right to know some of what our leaders in the previous administration did to "Detainees" in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, prison ships, and our outsourcing of torture in foreign countries through "renditions".
Now is the time for full disclosure! I very much recommend that everyone who thinks we can now just "look forward", instead of having a Special Prosecutor for Torture, read Ted Rall's ONE NATION, TWO SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE.
Yes, I believe that President Obama has two choices. He can send Bush (and Cheney and Rumsfeldt and others) to prison (The Hague, for International War Crimes Against Humanity), or, as legal scholar Bruce Fein and journalist Mark Danner argued last Friday night on Bill Moyer's Journal, he can pardon each and every one of these well-placed, (although not well-meaning), criminals who tortured and murdered, so far with impugnity, in the name of the American People.
Personally, I would prefer Justice to a Pardon, and I believe America would be better off. I also believe President Obama would not have a second term in office if he decides to pardon these thugs, but that is his decision.
The choice remains. Are there two tiers of Justice in America? Are we a Nation Of Laws? Or will America attempt to exonerate the guilty?
Personally, I believe that if Mr. Clinton was impeached for a friendly BJ, (or even for lying about it), then Mr. Bush's policies on torture might also be considered "High Crimes and Misdemeanors". Since Nancy Pelosi announced, "I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table," on Nov 8, 2006, maybe The Hague is back on the table? Or perhaps Ms. Pelosi doesn't want an investigation to reveal her own role in the torture fiasco?
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