Reply #1: If you are in or near Minneapolis, come join us

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Location:
Monday, February 7 · 11:00am - 1:00pm
Hennepin County Government Center (atrium)
300 North Sixth St
Minneapolis, MN

Come to a vigil and postcard signing and mailing event protesting nine years of Presidential authorization of torture in America on Monday, February 7th, 111-1 in the atrium of the Hennepin County Government Center. Meet at the north entrance. Cards and a limited number of stamps will be provided.

On February 9, 2002 George W. Bush declared that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to the prisoners at Guantanamo Prison. This unprecedented directive opened the floodgates to prisoner abuse, cruel and unusual punishment, and torture by American citizens, both authorized and unauthorized. America began to torture as a matter of policy for the first time.

And it has not stopped. There are still 173 political prisoners at Guantanamo, nearly half of which the the US Government has said have committed no crime and they do not intend to indict, yet they also do not intend to let free. The infection has spread from Guantanamo to secret prisons around the world, and homeward to holding of over 50,000 inmates in US prisons now held in 23 hour a day solitary confinement, and a daily stream of vitriolic speech on the nation’s main media. Children under the age of 11 only know an America that condones and commits torture.

At the event we will be asking people to sign and send postcards decrying this sad history to elected officials, judges, attorneys-general and anyone who should know and/or act on these facts. All judicial systems in the United States are authorized to indict anyone on a Federal crime and authorization of torture is a Federal crime, so any law enforcer from a local police officer to the US Attorney General is authorized and, in fact, compelled to act on evidence of a crime. We will be encouraging them to do so with our cards and vigil.

Join us!


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