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Friday, October 8, 2004 |
FEATURED ARTICLES
- I, Moazzam Begg, Demand to Be Freed From Guantanamo, LA Times
- TOP TEN CHENEY LIES OF THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, DNC
- THE FACTS ON HALLIBURTON, DNC
- Desmond Tutu Stars in Off-Broadway Play, AP
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Guantanamo, President Bush and the Invasion of Iraq, Democracy Now
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The God we worship is strange. They say this God is omnipotent, but God is also very weak. There's not a great deal that God seems to be able to do without you."
- - Archbishop, Desmond Tutu (From today's Bottom Line)
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - October 8th
1980 -- Rastafarian philosopher, street poet, voice of the down-trodden, natural mystic and reggae giant, Bob Marley, collapses onstage during a Wailers concert in Pittsburgh, PA, USA; the last concert he ever performs. He is flown directly to Sloan-Kettering Hospital in NY City, where it's denied he's dying of a brain tumor or cancer. Ras Bob ends up at a German disease-treatment center & dies from a brain tumor in May 1981, en route to Jamaica. "So much trouble in the world." - "One love - one heart."
http://www.bobmarley-foundation.com
RHINO HERE:
Following up on Wednesday's "4 Good Reasons" & the inclusion of the shrub gang's illegal internment camp at Guantanamo in those compelling reasons to vote for Kerry/Edwards, today Rhino directs your attention to a most courageous Archbishop who has come to the U.S. from South Africa to make his voice heard on the subject of imprisonment without charges or trial, & about interrogation & torture, things of which the people of South Africa know well. If you missed reading the article on Wednesday, I encourage you to read it.
I, Moazzam Begg, Demand to Be Freed From Guantanamo
http://radio.weblogs.com/0103207/#demand
Once a leading campaigner against apartheid, former South African Archbishop, Desmond Tutu has become a vocal critic of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. This past weekend, Archbishop Tutu made his debut in an off-Broadway play entitled, "Guantanamo - Honor-Bound to Defend Freedom." He played a British judge, Lord Justice Steyn, who questioned the legal justification of the detention regime. Check out the Associated Press article below about the play. Then, in today's Rhino's Bottom Line, Amy Goodman, one of Rhino's most revered heroes, speaks with the Nobel Peace Prize winner about the similarities between Guantanamo Bay & apartheid in South Africa. Also about the shrub, his invasion & occupation of Iraq. Rhino thinks, "Strong words from a wise man."
But first, 2 important follow ups to Tuesday's V.P. Debate. For those who missed Jabba The Hut performance, when challenged about his unethical dealings via Halliburton, he dismissed it as all false politically motivated accusations & directed viewers to Fact Check Dot Com for proof it was a pack of lies. Inquisitive cyber surfers who followed his instructions were awarded with a fantastic giggle cause that address leads to George Soros Dot Com where the mast head reads, "Why we must not re-elect President Bush - President Bush Is Endangering Our Safety, Hurting Our Vital Interests And Undermining American Values."
http://www.factcheck.com
Seems the Joe Isuzu of American Politics meant to say Fact Check Dot Org.
http://www.factcheck.org
Cheney Blunder Lauded Anti-Bush Web Site
Reuters, 10/6/04
http://tinyurl.com/4gvre
And don't forget to check out the Presidential debate tonight!
"SEND THE NEXT 2 ARTICLES TO A REPUBLICAN!"
TOP TEN CHENEY LIES OF THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
Democratic National Committee, 10/6/04
LIE # 1: I Have Never Met Edwards Before
LIE # 2: Cheney Claimed He Had Never Linked Iraq and 9/11
LIE # 3: The Khan Smuggling Network has been Shutdown
ALL 10 LIES & THE FACTS AT: http://www.democrats.org/news/200410060007.html
THE FACTS ON HALLIBURTON
Democratic National Committee, 10/6/04
From The Debate:
- - Cheney: "Well, the reason they keep mentioning Halliburton is because they're trying to throw up a smokescreen. They know the charges are false."
- - Edwards: Halliburton Used Enron Style Accounting Practices. "While he was CEO of Halliburton, they paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false information on their company, just like Enron and Ken Lay."
The Facts:
Halliburton agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a SEC probe of the company's accounting during the tenure of Dick Cheney. Halliburton failed in 1998 to disclose a change in the way it accounted for revenue from some construction work, the SEC said in a statement. The SEC said "the company misled investors and violated federal securities laws."
- - Bloomberg News, 8/3/04;
Complaint of SEC vs Halliburton Company and Robert Charles Muchmore Jr. 8/3/04]
LOTS MORE FACTS ON HALLIBURTON & CHENEY AT:
http://www.democrats.org/news/200410060005.html
Desmond Tutu Stars in Off-Broadway Play
By Verna Dobnik, Associated Press, Oct 2, 2004
Moving from the pulpit to the stage, Desmond Tutu is appearing off-Broadway in a drama blasting the Bush administration's handling of Guantanamo Bay detainees. The retired South African prelate and Nobel laureate appeared Saturday night at a tiny theater in lower Manhattan, playing a judge in "Guantanamo: Honor Bound To Defend Freedom." The play portrays the plight of British detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Tutu's engagement is limited to two performances; the second is on Sunday afternoon.
Standing onstage before a scene resembling holding pens at the detention camp, Tutu said he chose to appear in the play to highlight concerns about the treatment of the prisoners. "I hope this will help to put this particular issue in the public arena unambiguously so (the American) people can say, 'Is this what we want to support?'" Tutu told reporters before the play began. Weeks before the U.S. presidential election, Tutu is drawing attention to the treatment of hundreds of suspected terrorists being held by the United States. Last week, a Briton at Guantanamo said he was tortured and held in solitary confinement for almost two years by the American military _ a fate also alleged by other detainees.
MORE AT: http://www.heraldsun.com/features/wire/29-528592.html
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Guantanamo, President Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
Democracy Now Interview by Amy Goodman, October 5th, 2004
(Excerpt) AMY GOODMAN: This weekend, Archbishop Desmond Tutu made his debut in the play, as a British judge, Lord Justice Steyn, who questioned the legal justification for the detention regime. Once a leading campaigner against apartheid, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, now a vocal critic of Guantanamo. After the play, we had a public conversation for the audience at The Culture Project. I began by asking Archbishop Desmond Tutu what his response is to what's happening at Guantanamo.
DESMOND TUTU: I thought I knew what was taking place there; and I was quite shocked when I sat through the play yesterday, just how devastated I was. I was particularly so, because I had such an awful sense of deja vu. For someone coming from South Africa, you [inaudible] that's exactly what they were doing for exactly the same reasons, that they gave. When you said, "Why do you detain people without trial? Why do you ban people as you are doing?" And the response from the South African government was, "Security of the state." And anyone who questioned it would then be regarded, especially if you are white, as being unpatriotic. And I just want to say to you: Is this something that you want done in your name? Isn't it time there was a same sense of outrage that people had about apartheid, which people should have had about the holocaust? What would happen if it was Americans held by some other country under these conditions? The point is, God has actually got no one. The God we worship is strange. They say this God is omnipotent, but God is also very weak. There's not a great deal that God seems to be able to do without you...
... AMY GOODMAN: How do you feel about the invasion and occupation of Iraq?
DESMOND TUTU: It was fantastic seeing the many, many people who came out in opposition. It was fantastic. You know, sometimes when you say, "Ach, Americans," or, "Oww, people nowadays don't care." It's not true. Millions turned out. Millions. Millions said, "No. Give peace a chance." And I said, and so many others -- I wasn't the only one. The Pope said so, too. The Archbishop of Canterbury said so. The Dalai Lama said so. But this war, if it was to be a justifiable war in terms of the just war theory, would have to be one that was declared by a legitimate authority. And the administration here was aware of that. That's why they went to the U.N. There's no point in going to the U.N., if you had already decided -- they probably, of course, had decided -- but, I mean, there was no point unless they believed or they realized in order for it to be legitimate and therefore justifiable, the only authority would have to be the U.N. And when they didn't get what they wanted from the U.N., they did what they did. We said then, and we keep saying so, not just that it was illegal, it was immoral. And the consequences of it just now -- I mean, you have to be, you've really got to be blind to say, "Well, yeah it's okay. We have removed Saddam Hussein." Why didn't you say that was the reason for going? Because the world would have said, "No, no, no, no. That isn't a reason that will be allowable for you to declare war." And I'm sad. I'm sad that we seem so inured now. They tell you that a hundred people have been killed, and the United States and its allies are doing that; and they say, "No, no. We targeted that house because our intelligence said so." Intelligence. The same intelligence that said there were weapons of mass destruction? Please. That's been done in your name. That mothers and children have been killed...
READ IT ALL AT: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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