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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 02:54 AM
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Mr Obama, make a clear break, cut the evil cord,
Edited on Tue Jan-13-09 02:59 AM by G_j
please...


A clean and clear break means freedom to dream and hope, cut us free from the darknesss!

(.close Guantanamo, investigate war crimes)

~!~!~!~!!~!~!~!!!~~!~!~!~

http://www.alternet.org/rights/118708/campaign_for_special_torture_prosecutor_takes_change.gov_site_by_storm

Campaign For Special Torture Prosecutor Takes Change.gov Site By Storm
By Ari Melber, TheNation.com. Posted January 9, 2009.

The votes are in, and the top-ranked question -- out of 70,000 submitted to Obama's site -- asks for an investigation of torture and spying.

A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government. I've been working with activist Bob Fertik to organize support for the question, and several progressive bloggers urged readers and Obama supporters to vote for it last week. Digby, who has written extensively about the Bush administration's abuse of the rule of law, recently reported on the progress:

I wrote a post about initiative spearheaded by Ari Melber of The Nation and Democrats.com to ask President-elect Obama if he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate war crimes in the Bush administration over at Change.gov. (In a previous round, it was the sixth most asked question...) This time, through their efforts, it's number one. This is particularly important, since the press has only asked Obama about this one time, last April. And a lot has happened since then, most obviously the fact that Vice President is all over television admitting to war crimes as if he's proud of it.
Then The New York Times picked up the news:

The number one submission on the popular "Open for Questions" portion of the site might seem more than a little impolitic to : "Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor -- ideally Patrick Fitzgerald -- to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping," wrote Bob Fertik of New York, who runs the Web site, Democrats.com.
Though the Obama team has promised to answer some of the top questions as early as this week, they have not said whether they will respond to Mr. Fertik's, which has received more than 22,000 votes since the second round of the question-and-answer feature began on Dec. 30. The site logged more than 1.5 million votes for 20,000-plus questions ... The second highest-ranked submission, which is about oversight of the nation's banking industry, is several thousand of votes behind the query about a special prosecutor. Mr. Fertik's question has been pushed to the top, in part, by a coalition of liberal bloggers ...

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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 07:15 AM
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1. He didn't think we got him elected by not knowing how to blog and organize.
He knows the power of the internet... Now, he will either observe or ignore. Hard to deny the power of people and the power that they have. Too bad, so sad... he knows that a youtube hit could kill you in one day. He knows a cause can grow large. Hopefully, he will answer next Wed.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 07:21 AM
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2. K&R
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 10:22 AM
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3. love the icon
Sea Shepherd
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