May 24th, 2008
Posted by Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 11:43am	National Security

Torture and America

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our first-ever ACLU Blog of Rights symposium, and thanks to our readers for their thought-provoking comments. If you haven't had a chance to check out the symposium posts by our guest bloggers, here they are:

• Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald, "Growing Responsibility for the Bush Torture Regime"
• Daily Kos’ Joan McCarter, "Torture: The "Professional Disease" of Our Nation"
• Eunomia/American Conservative’s Daniel Larison, "On the Necessity of an Irrational Enemy"
• Firedoglake’s Christy Hardin Smith, "Stand For Liberty And The Rule Of Law"
• Crooks & Liars’ Nicole Belle, "What Comes Around Goes Around Again"
• Omega Minor author Paul Verhaeghen, "We Are Not Immune to History. History Is Not Immune to Us."
• ACLU’s Chris Anders, "The Watchdog Bites at the Torture Administration"
• emptywheel’s Marcy Wheeler, "Hiding Abu Zubaydah, Hiding the Failures of the Torture Regime"
• TalkLeft’s Jeralyn Merritt, "The Unfriendly Skies of Ghost Air"
• Hullabaloo’s Digby, "Highest Ideals"
• ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer, "See No Evil"
• OpenLeft's Matt Stoller, How an Open Society Responds to Revelations of Torture
• ACLU's Caroline Fredrickson, "It’s Time to Turn on the Cameras and Stop Torture"

We will be hosting more symposiums in the future on other topics. We're also open to suggestions, so if you have an idea for a symposium topic, let us know by commenting or emailing blog@aclu.org.

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1. Amapola Says:
   May 25th, 2008 at 9:19pm

   Have you guys noticed there's an http://aclu.meetup.com ??? Let's start organizing local meetups in our own states put pressure on locally elected officials. There's also http://bordc.meetup.com (Bill of Rights Defense Committee)

   To be honest I do not support everything the ACLU does. I think the ACLU could pick their fights better. Supporting MBLA was a bad move, but I am in total support against torture and the Patriot Act.

   Even if I don't agree with everything, I think we should all be able to work together on what is important. Defeating torture and the Patriot Act.

   I have been handing out flyers over S. 1959 Violent Radicalized Homegrown Terrorist Prevention Act. This amendment to the Patriot Act will open the door to a crack down on free speech on the Internet.

   People need to know this bill is in the Senate. The mainstream media is not telling people about this.