JOIN US to Speak Out Against Torutre and Demand Accountability as Torture Advocate and Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey speaks at the UNC Law School Graduation
3-5 p.m. - Mother's Day, May 10, 2009
Dean Smith Center, 300 Skipper Bowles Drive, Chapel Hill.
NC Stop Torture Now especially invites moms and their children of all ages.
MOM:
Imagine if your son or daughter was:
Detained by police while traveling abroad or kidnapped on his way to worship; then,
Stripped, drugged, hooded, muzzled, photographed, and shackled to the floor of a private, aircraft; that,
“Disappeared” to a foreign prison, denied contact with you, let alone a lawyer or a judge, and equally invisible to from humanitarian watch dogs, such as the Red Cross;
Interrogated and tortured daily. Electrocuted, beaten, burned, and mutilated.
Denied sleep or daylight and bombarded -- around the clock; -- with ear-splitting rock music; and, at long last,
Released with neither charge, apology nor meaningful access to redress and treatment for the harm done.
Do you want justice? Will you insist on accountability? Of course you will! Whose Mom would do any less?
Torture is illegal, immoral and ineffective.
It doesn't make us safe, it puts us in peril.
Please wear orange or pink in solidarity.
2 comments:
ok you wacko's,
most of you women must be democrats!
what's wrong with that you ask?
you have a bleeding heart for murderous terrorists, yet by supporting the democratic party you openly support ripping babies from their mothers womb and murdering them.(abortion)
my brother was a navy seal, and waterboarding was a regular part of his training.
This is to the last responder here: thanks for posting your response!
Here is part of what guides my work and life & this blogsite here, as imperfect as it is in all respects:
*Any kind of torture or violence - whether to babies or grownups - hurts us all.
*I embrace the Consistent Life Ethic (The Seamless Garment of Nonviolence, some call this way of life). This ethic & set of principles calls us to do all we possibly/humanly can (in balance with the totality of our lives) to prevent violence in any capacity - even abortions. By the way, there have been way more than the usual in Iraq as u might well know - spontaneous abortions & otherwise - due to the bombs dropping, depleted uranium the stress & the destroyed families and lives.
Perhaps there is some purpose you came to this site & took the time to send your responses? There may be at base possibly a seed of need for absolution/self-forgiveness? To be able to go on with fruitful practical and spiritual life-calling? Just in case your brother - or you may be struggling with possible guilt? If so, there are many who have over the years of the frequent inhumanity & lack of compassion or even wisdom of most all of us to one another - whatever our party affiliation or nation or era.
You may have seen a film about the time of Wilberforce and the slave-traders? Even after that kind of torture, much spiritual fruit came -once the perpetuators recognized what they had done.
Perhaps then as now many of all parties - Dems & Republicans alike - in our country as well as elsewhere - are coming out of or going into a hydrolic or whirlwind - a societal & spiritual paralysis which gripped so many caught up in peer, political, church, military or other pressures?
So often it's too difficult or unfamilair for many to be unwilling to take the time for reflection? You too might well become a leader in spiritual training toward toward a more disciplined way.
We all need to support each other to be concerned about the means as well as the desired end - to include ethics, principles - if not make them first and foremost. May we ask more often: what might be the consequences and what will be our solutions to those possibilities? Prevention or resisting certain impulses often saves lots of future grief.
Often - in my letters to leaders, legislators and politicians I ask them to consider the legacy they are leaving for their own children.
Keep your responses coming and thank you for leaving your passionate concern.
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