I Beg Your Pardon?
Show of hands: How many of you think President Bush is planning to grant pre-emptive pardons to the key members of his administration involved in authorizing the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody?
Are your hands up? Ours are. Send a message to President Bush telling him not to pardon these individuals (he knows who they are). Tell him even he isn't above the law, and to pardon these people would be an extraordinary abuse of executive power.
To see just who we think Bush may have in mind to pardon, check out what we around the ACLU office call the "Rogues Gallery" of Bush administration officials. Smiley pictures? Check. Description of what these individuals have done to authorize torture and extraordinary rendition? Check.
Signed letter to President Bush? That's up to you.
Dec 5th, 2008 at 9:43pm
The letter-writing to the president is very unlikely to sway him. Why not write letters to congress, asking them to pledge to call Bush to testify and prosecute him directly on any charges for which he pardons an administration official?
Dec 6th, 2008 at 1:16pm
Where was the very liberal, left-wing, radical American Criminal Liberties Union when their hero Bill Clinton wad pardoning terrorist including members of the weather underground.
Can we see a show of hands for anyone who sees the HYPOCRISY here.
I hope Bush pardons everyone that so-called "tortured" terrorist i.e. ACLU's best friends.
Dec 7th, 2008 at 10:42pm
Is it not interesting that the ACLU, in its "rogues gallery", has already determined that individuals in the Bush administration have tortured enemy combatants? It has even marked for prosecution a lawyer who wrote memoranda arguing that specific interrogation techniques are legal. Apparently, individuals who served in the Bush administration are not entitled to any presumption of innocence. And their lawyers are fair game, too.
Dec 9th, 2008 at 9:09am
When I stopped by to read a few items here, there were only three comments on this issue.
Each was a negative 'interpretation.' Each sought to undermine any constructive thought. Two were cliches of right wing propaganda. One was just more cynical skepticism towards writing to elected representatives.
None of which are logically palatable.
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