[Sosfbay-discuss] FW: Amnesty: reestablishing US moral authority

[Brian Good]

Sent to local activists' group


Three days after President Obama took office, he conducted 
air strikes against a country that was no threat to us, and 
killed 16 civilians doing it.  (1) I'm not a lawyer, but I think that 
constitutes a violation of the Nuremburg Principles' prohibition 
of aggressive war, and I fear it represents an announcement 
that President Obama will be no more bound by treaties or 
international law than Bush was.

Recently in the Mohammed et al. v. Jeppesen lawsuit the
Obama Justice Department reaffirmed the Bush doctrine that
state secrets necessitated gags on torture policies.  Wikipedia 
tells us that Amnesty  International was one of the first groups 
to protest at Jeppesen's San Jose office back in 2006. (2)  

Anthony Romero of the ACLU said Obama was continuing Bush's
"reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous 
human rights 
violations committed by the American government. 
This is not change."  (3) 


1. 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/24/pakistan-barack-obama-air-strike

2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppesen
3. http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/38695prs20090209.html

 














  


Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:37:03 -0800
From: emmakay at stanford.edu
To: amnesty at lists.stanford.edu; activists at lists.stanford.edu; iraq_coalition at lists.stanford.edu
Subject: Amnesty: reestablishing US moral authority

ten steps- we're getting closer with obama.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/02/21/ten-steps-restore-united-states-moral-authority

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