Reply #34: consider a small donation to Amnesty Internl who stood up to Sensenbrenner

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from the person who presented before Sensenbrenner this past Friday:

here is the place to make a small donation.


https://secure3.ctsg.com/amnestyusa/donation/index.asp?item=1&ms=47


This is from:


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061205X.shtml

Democracy in Action?
By Chip Pitts : her is chair of Amnesty International in the US
or: [email protected]
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Sunday 12 June 2005

"...Several Congressman at the hearing strongly criticized Amnesty International, mischaracterizing our positions and even stating that we were actually endangering American lives by documenting the administration's tragic and counterproductive torture policy. I was prevented from responding, until the barrage became so great that Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D- N.Y.) insisted, as a "point of decency," that I be allowed to do so.
My response emphasized that it was not Amnesty International that created the firestorm of outrage over the abuses at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere - but the administration officials themselves. They were the ones who constructed Guantánamo and other secret detention centers around the world as legal "black holes," denied access to Amnesty and the Red Cross and others, and created both the rationale and the environments conducive to torture, ill-treatment, "disappearances," arbitrary detention, military trials, and extra-judicial executions. ...."