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The World Can't Wait
Oct/05/2006 12:05 PM Filed in:
Civil rights
by selise
Think torture, indefinite detention, and kangaroo courts are unacceptable? Well, you're not alone. Yesterday, October 4th 2006, this full page ad (pdf) appeared in the New York times. Today, there are over 200 protests planned all over the country.
“Can’t the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the ‘intelligence’ that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?”
- Ariel Dorfman, “Are We Really So Fearful?”
Think torture, indefinite detention, and kangaroo courts are unacceptable? Well, you're not alone. Yesterday, October 4th 2006, this full page ad (pdf) appeared in the New York times. Today, there are over 200 protests planned all over the country.
“Can’t the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the ‘intelligence’ that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?”
- Ariel Dorfman, “Are We Really So Fearful?”
SILENCE + TORTURE =
COMPLICITY
Here are today's protest locations in Massachusetts (more info here).
Don't be silent.
