Letter To President Bush
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.While browsing NewsVine today I came across this letter to Bush from a retired Naval aviator, judge, and law professor.
"Until your administration, I thought it was impossible for our nation to take hundreds of persons into custody without provable charges of any kind, and to “disappear” them into holes like Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram. Until your administration, in my wildest legal fantasy I could not imagine a U.S. Attorney General seeking to justify torture or a President first stating his intent to veto an anti-torture law, and then adding a “signing statement” that he intends to ignore such law as he sees fit."
In the end, he tells Bush he is turning in his aviator's wings and his Lieutenant's shoulder boards as a protest for the injustices done by this adminstration. This is the type of person we need serving as an elected official for our country.
posted by c_peligroso @ 11:08 AM
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