Members of Witness Against Torture (Photo: Jeff Leys)in washington dc. a group (catholic workers mind you) went down there to protest the united states torture practices. i saw him yesterday, gave him a high five and bought him a guinness!
15 Arrested At White House Protesting U.S. Torture Practices
Mike Ferner, Electronic Iraq 2 March 2006 Washington – Fifteen people were arrested yesterday in front of the White House after winding their way for two hours through the streets of the nation's capital, demanding the U.S. stop torturing detainees in military prisons. Members of Witness Against Torture began their protest at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, continuing to the Capitol and the Department of Justice, and ending at the White House where U.S. Park Police carried out the arrests. Speakers called on officials in each of the buildings to cease planning and executing policies that have injured and killed people in prisons such as Guantanamo Bay, Bagram in Afghanistan, and Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Arrested were Art Laffin, of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Washington, Amanda and Matt Dalaisio, and Tania Theriault of the Catholic Worker's Mary House in New York, Susan Crane from Jonah House in Baltimore, Matt Vogel, Mark Colville, Brian Kavanaugh, Carmen Trotta, Jacqueline Allen-Doucot, Alice Gerard, Bill Streit, Tom Feagley, Edith Tetaz and Jordan Manuel.The march took place on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, an annual period when Catholics pray and fast to repent for sins. Speakers included many Biblical references in their remarks. At the Department of Justice, Bill Streit used passages from the Book of Isaiah to condemn the DOJ's role in torturing prisoners. "Your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt; Your lips speak falsehood, and your tongue utters deceit...Right is repelled and justice stands far off; for truth stumbles in the public square. Honesty is lacking, and the man who turns from evil is despoiled."........
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Too right. Good for him.
Rorys salutes these brave patriots
Tell your friend the next Guinness is on me.
I'm getting more and more dizzy, though. I just read that Dubai Ports has dropped out of the deal. On one hand, isn't Osama Bin Laden laughing gleefully as his plan unfolds? Or would he have been happier if it worked out the other way?
jean and rory and vanx, he's a good man i think you'd like him, even though he IS catholic (i AM joking joel if you read that part. see some of my friends ARE catholic..............)
yes vanx i read about the ports deal being recinded or declined by the uae. HOWEVER, you can bet your bottom dollar someone like halliburton will slink in.
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