[Vision2020] Human Rights Activists: Obama Breaks Promise

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This Genesee gardener would listen to KUOI, but it does not come in here.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 08:14:55 -0700
To: "tim lohrmann" timlohr at bresnan.net
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Human Rights Activists: Obama Breaks Promise

> Tim Lohrmann?
> 
> Wow!!
> 
> Speak of a flash from the past?!?!?
> 
> What's up, Tim?  Whatcha been up to?  How are things?
> 
> Rumor has it that KUOI's demographics have been reduced to some old
> retired gardener in Genessee who listens to KUOI only to keep the voices
> in his head in tune.
> 
> Wheenya gonna be back on the air, big guy?
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> 
> > Vid. Clip:
> > http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=339853
> >
> >
> >
> > Story:
> > Obama Breaks Major Campaign Promise as Military Commissions Resume, Says
> > Amnesty International
> >
> > http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090515.DC17891&show_article=1
> >
> > May 15 12:25 PM US/Eastern
> >
> > Obama Restarting Bush-Era Terror Tribunals
> > Tribunal Decision Angers Obama’s Liberal Backers
> >
> > Human Rights Organization Reiterates Call for Detainees to be Tried in
> > U.S.
> > Federal Courts
> >
> > WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to President
> > Barack
> > Obama restarting the military commissions at the U.S.-controlled detention
> > facility in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International's executive director
> > Larry
> > Cox issued the following statement:
> >
> > "President Obama is reinstating the same deeply-flawed military
> > commissions
> > that in June 2008 he called an 'enormous failure.' In one swift move,
> > Obama
> > both backtracks on a major campaign promise to change the way the United
> > States fights terrorism and undermines the nation's core respect for the
> > rule
> > of law by sacrificing due process for political expediency.
> >
> > "Whatever revisions the Obama administration has made to the commissions
> > do
> > not change the fact that the commissions do not provide an adequate
> > standard
> > of justice for the detainees nor the victims of terrorism -- they merely
> > mock
> > the U.S. Constitution, international laws and undermine fundamental human
> > rights standards.
> >
> > "What happened to President Obama's confidence in the U.S. justice
> > system's
> > ability to try detainees? He himself said that 'we need not throw away 200
> > years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism.'
> >
> >
> > "U.S. federal courts are a perfectly sound system to try any and all
> > detainees. They have brought other terror suspects to justice, and there
> > is no
> > reason why these courts cannot continue to do the same."
> >
> > Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist
> > organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and
> > volunteers
> > in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The
> > organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the
> > public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and
> > dignity are denied.
> >
> >
> >
> > For more information, please visit: www.amnestyusa.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > SOURCE Amnesty International
> > Copyright 2009 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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