The ACLU is working hard to provide good legal counsel to the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay: The John Adams Project. At the very least, read the overview, the goals, and the background. If you can, please consider joining or donating to the ACLU. This is an important project.
No doubt many of the anti-ACLU crowd considers this an anti-American project. This position only reveals their ignorance of history and the principles this country was founded on. If you doubt this, read the title again. John Adams made a stand for 8 British soldiers accused of killing civilians. He took the job on the principle that all defendants have the right to a fair trial and to face their accusers. That right has subsequently been denied to hundreds of prisoners under the Bush administration. As a country, we have betrayed what John Adams risked his career, livelihood, and his personal safety to establish in this country's infancy.
Please, support this project. Pass the word.
“One of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country.” -- John Adams on his defense of the British soldiers
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We should support the Attorney General's attempt to cause the John Adams Project to "out" undercover CIA agents to cease. Getting innocent American agents killed is not going help Gitmo detainees seek justice. This activity is lethal, and not part of prudent policy on the part of the ACLU. This unnecessarily costs them support. I must assume that the error is due to elitist arrogance on the part of the ACLU core decision makers... sacrificing American lives for political gain. That's an error that they ascribe to their political enemies on the right.
The majority of the USA believes the war on terror is not a police matter, to be resolved in court, but a war wherein America sustained mass injuries from foreign elements supported by a foreign government. However one feels about that question, it is no excuse to put the defenders of my family's security in unnecessary danger.
Most of America agrees with Michael Wilson... a screenwriter, who said: QUOTE: America is a shining city on a hill, a beacon for all those in the world who yearn for liberty and freedom. She remains the greatest example of how an individual can take an idea and turn it into a life of beauty and success. And while she is not perfect and never has been, I believe in her. UNQUOTE
Please pray for our leaders and those whose efforts they direct.
Regards -CapnRick
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