Raging Grannies and Raging Americans - By Cindy Sheehan

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Raging Grannies and Raging Americans
By Cindy Sheehan
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Friday 21 April 2006

I am sitting here watching CSPAN, where Congress is holding a special hearing into Chinese human rights violations, which is, of course, an important issue that needs to be addressed. An Amnesty International report just came out, and of all of the countries in the world, the US is fourth in number of executions - behind China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. China by far executes the most people with seeming barbaric abandon.

Everyone who has a brain and a stake in what direction our country is going should be demanding that Congress investigate the administration and itself for human rights violations. This feeble excuse for an Executive Branch and its bobble-headed, rubber-stamp franchise of a useless body down the mall - Congress - are committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes against our Constitution and rule of law. Instead of holding these investigations against China, they should be investigating themselves and George Bush and his cronies, who are violating everything that we hold dear as Americans and are killing and torturing thousands of people just for the icing on the brutality cake.

Every American who has ears to hear the "decider" lie and everyone who has eyes to watch him figuratively defecate on our Bill of Rights should use their voices to scream against the cruelty of BushCo, use their feet to march in solidarity with other Americans who repudiate the cruelty, and use their butts to sit down in front of places of power to demand that our leaders quit using our names to imprison people indefinitely without trials and torture them as they hypocritically accuse other governments of violating human rights.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106J.shtml