Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Rendition is good for us

Here's what candidate Obama wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2007,
“To build a better, freer world, we must first behave in ways that reflect the decency and aspirations of the American people.”

“This means ending the practices of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries, of detaining thousands without charge or trial, of maintaining a network of secret prisons to jail people beyond the reach of the law.”
But now President Obama is authorizing the practice of rendition to continue. But with the supposedly important proviso that there will be more monitoring. And I have a bridge you can buy!

Change you can believe in??
Ask Maher Arar who was transferred to Syria, where he was tortured.

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