Re: epiphany Says Uh-oh
- From: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan)
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:59 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <memo.20060117145223.492A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan) wrote:
> In article <cigos1h40bvmcobbtti1bh2e3penoql9db@xxxxxxx>, epiphany@xxxxxxxxxxx
> (epiphany) wrote:
>
> *snip*
>
> While I doubt that anybody really cares what Epiphany says, they might just
> care about what Al Gore said yesterday:
>
> http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/01/landmark_speech_1.html
>
> A landmark speech by ex Vice President Al Gore yesterday called for the
> defence and preservation of the US constitution, an end to executive abuse,
> and compliance with international law. Referring to the issue of
> extraordinary rendition and torture he cites the work of Craig Murray. His
> quote is taken from the Tashkent Telegrams,
> http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2005/12/damning_documen.html
> documents that the British Government has strived to keep from public access.
>
> "The President has also claimed that he has the authority to kidnap
> individuals in foreign countries and deliver them for imprisonment and
> interrogation on our behalf by autocratic regimes in nations that are
> infamous for the cruelty of their techniques for torture.
>
> Some of our traditional allies have been shocked by these new practices
> on the part of our nation. The British Ambassador to Uzbekistan - one of
> those nations with the worst reputations for torture in its prisons -
> registered a complaint to his home office about the senselessness and cruelty
> of the new U.S. practice: "This material is useless - we are selling our
> souls for dross. It is in fact positively harmful."
>
> The full text of the speech is given below:
>
> "Congressman Barr and I have disagreed many times over the years, but we have
> joined together today with thousands of our fellow citizens-Democrats and
> Republicans alike-to express our shared concern that America's Constitution
> is in grave danger.
>
> In spite of our differences over ideology and politics, we are in strong
> agreement that the American values we hold most dear have been placed at
> serious risk by the unprecedented claims of the Administration to a truly
> breathtaking expansion of executive power.
>
> As we begin this new year, the Executive Branch of our government has been
> caught eavesdropping on huge numbers of American citizens and has brazenly
> declared that it has the unilateral right to continue without regard to the
> established law enacted by Congress to prevent such abuses.
>
> It is imperative that respect for the rule of law be restored.
Which is exactly what I told you *jerks* on the day of 911, and what did you do?
Get it yet?
Who has the last laugh now?
*s****
Lord Cerne Abbas
Humpty Dumpty Bush fell off the Iraq wall.
Humpty Dumpty Bush had a big fall.
All his spin doctors and all the President's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty Bush together again.
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/identity.html
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/mylinks.html
http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm
.
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