US Media Accepts Torture Impunity
 
Resent-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:07:40 -0500 (CDT)


Last week, ABC news broke a shocking story: Secretary of State Rice
led meetings that explicitly authorized torture. (1)  Last night,
ABC had a chance to ask the Presidential candidates if they thought
torture was acceptable in America. In case they didn't think of
this idea themselves, we even ran an ad on the local ABC affiliate
right after the debate in Philadelphia with quotes from their story
and footage of the Secretary of State saying, "Torture and conspiracy
to commit torture are crimes under US law".

But ABC didn't get the hint. Instead of asking the Democratic
candidates about torture, the moderators, "dwelled entirely on
specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and
rehashed".(2) The mainstream media won't hold the Bush administration
accountable, but we will.

Sign our Petition demanding the Presidential candidates call on
Rice to resign:    http://www.CondiMustGo.com

At a time when our foreign policy is in shambles, we need a Secretary
of State who can repair relations with the world and restore the
image of America as the human rights leader. That's why TrueMajority.org
has joined with Brave New Films and Democracy for America to launch
our Condi Must GO campaign.

When we hit 100,000 signatures, we're going to deliver these petitions
to Senators Clinton, McCain, and Obama. They think they can lead
this country; this is their chance to prove it. We're building a
broad coalition for change that's going to hold the Secretary of
State responsible for authorizing torture. Take the first step.

Sign our petition to the Presidential candidates right now:

http://www.CondiMustGo.com

Thank you for taking action,

-Ilya

Ilya Sheyman Online Organizer

(1) abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/print?id=4583256 (2)
washingtonpost(dot)com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041700013_pf.html

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