King of Horror’s New Anti-Torture Ad
When I was around 10-years-old, I somehow caught a few minutes of Christine, the film based on Stephen King’s novel about a killer car. And it freaked me out. To this day, I’ve still never gotten a driver’s license.
Anyway, Stephen King knows a lot about horror. So if he is freaked out about the U.S. government’s use of torture, then you know it’s serious. Recently, Mr. King took the time to write a personal letter to President Obama calling for an independent commission of inquiry into the U.S. torture program, and that letter will be published tomorrow as an ad in the special Congressional printed edition of Politico, right next to the paper’s section on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
It’s part of the Committee’s job to “provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States to assure that such activities are in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
They’ve done about as good a job as Christine’s mechanic.
Members of the committee had agreed to start a review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. When, you ask? 2002? ‘03? ’06? Nope, not until last March. A little slow off the blocks. Then, late last month, the ranking Republican on the committee, Kit Bond (R-Mo.), “withdrew from the probe” in protest over Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to open a preliminary review into a small number of cases of alleged detainee abuse that the DOJ under President G.W. Bush declined to prosecute.
Basically, a guy who was supposed to make sure that the government follows the law in intelligence operations quit to protest an investigation into whether the government followed the law in intelligence operations.
This is unacceptable. And it’s illegal. Congress and President Obama are obligated by U.S. law to fully investigate, prosecute and provide remedy for torture and other human rights violations. They need to know that the U.S. public will hold them accountable if they do not obey the law and hold accountable those responsible for torture.
Join Stephen King in calling for a full investigation into torture. Read his letter and forward it to President Obama at www.amnestyusa.org/10againsttorture. You wouldn’t want to make Stephen King mad, would you?
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Tags: Congress, Counter Terror with Justice, Politico, President Obama, Stephen King, torture
October 8th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
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October 9th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
My mom was a fan of Stephen King, but all I can say to him is: Keep up the good work!
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October 10th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Good work by Mr. Stephen King. I loved US in 1994 but started hated in 2004. Obama made me love this country again but I would recommend and request Mr. Stephen King to work against un-necessary surveillance. I feel US government agencies are always on our ass. 24/7 surveillance and then they are not just watching but they also make us feel that we are being watched. I feel no privacy in my life. Paranoia, anger man, i can’t explain. I remember a quote from Benjamin Franklin, They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. Fuck all government people watching my ass. (I do not want to use this language but they fucking deserve it, made me a fucking psycho).
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October 11th, 2009 at 8:12 am
[...] are the best times for celebrities to point out next steps! Amnesty International has initiated great action where ten very influencial personalities have made their statement about torture asking Obama to [...]
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October 18th, 2009 at 5:33 am
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October 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
President Obama is continuing to use both torture and rendition full speed. He has greatly increased the use of unmanned remotely controlled killer drones that have been proven to kill over 98 percent innocent civilians — http://truthinjector.com/content/drone-attacks-killing-civilians-at-the-rate-of-fifty-to-one-60-drone-hits-kill-14-rebels-and
and recently there has been a surge of arrests with a noticeable high level placement in the national media many believe is a gross attempt to help boost support for increased forces in Afghanistan. As in the case of Najibullah Zazi they arrested him putting out false claims in the national press (unnamed sources high in the Obama administration) that he was trying to make a hydrogen peroxide bomb from beauty supply store peroxide which is IMPOSSIBLE to do as any good chemist would know.
Check this story out–
http://truthinjector.com/content/beauty-supply-store-hydrogen-peroxide-not-an-explosive-threat
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