Text of Gore speech here

[mzmolly]

www.algore04.com

Remarks as prepared

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.

Ahhhhhhhh.

[demosincebirth]

1. Are they going to re run his speach, if so, where and when?

[helderheid]

2. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x153628

[demosincebirth]

8. Thanks

[mzmolly]

6. * I heard tonight at 10 Eastern?

:shrug:

[MrBenchley]

3. Second link here....

"At the same time, the Executive Branch has claimed a previously unrecognized authority to mistreat prisoners in its custody in ways that plainly constitute torture in a pattern that has now been documented in U.S. facilities located in several countries around the world.
Over 100 of these captives have reportedly died while being tortured by Executive Branch interrogators and many more have been broken and humiliated. In the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, investigators who documented the pattern of torture estimated that more than 90 percent of the victims were innocent of any charges.
This shameful exercise of power overturns a set of principles that our nation has observed since General Washington first enunciated them during our Revolutionary War and has been observed by every president since then - until now. These practices violate the Geneva Conventions and the International Convention Against Torture, not to mention our own laws against torture.
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.""

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html

[mzmolly]

4. Thanks Mr. B!

:toast:

[MrBenchley]

5. Any time....

It was a great speech.

[oasis]

7. Gore should go on a speech tour.

[mzmolly]

9. Agreed. I so wish he'd run, but my husband said he likely won't while

diebold counts the votes. *sigh*

[EVDebs]

10. Ollie North's Rex84, Ops GardenPlot/CableSplicer detention camps

All during Reagan's term with a certain Samuel Alito ensconced in the Office of Legal Counsel to the WH, determining constitutionality of these projects...projects that allow for 'suspending the Constitution' and arresting and detaining law-abiding dissenters to war...

Hey, they'd just have to arrest over half of the country now, wouldn't they ? But breaking the budget isn't a concern of theirs, only getting YOUR information and using it against you.

[mzmolly]

11. Gore also mentioned that if the prez can detain americans without

representation - indefinitely, and torture people etc. - what is to stop him from committing genocide?

[EVDebs]

13. I've gotta hear this speech. Hopefully good ole CSpan will cover it

and DUers will provide links. Someone has asked NYTimes to print it. Good show if they do !

[mzmolly]

12. .

[AlGore-08.com]

14. Here's our permenant link to the transcript

http://www.algore.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=325&Itemid=78

[mzmolly]

19. Thanks.

I'd love to see a candidate Gore in 08. I wish he'd reconsider his not running.

[BlueEyedSon]

15. Dupe?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x153319

[Nothing Without Hope]

16. ***COMPILATION*** of links & DU threads on the historic 1/16 GORE SPEECH

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x161222
thread title (1-17-06 GD): ***COMPILATION*** of links & DU threads on the historic 1/16 GORE SPEECH

Organized for easier reference. Includes video, audio, transcript, DU liveblogging and other DU threads, and coverage by the media.

[dutchdemocrat]

17. Video of for all

In five formats at archive.org

It took me a day....

But it's uploaded and accessible for all. Forever.


http://ia300111.us.archive.org/3/items/gored/


http://www.archive.org/details/gored

[mzmolly]

18. Wonderful. Start a thread, this deserves one!

:yourock: