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I’m thoreau, and I largely approve this platform
Unqualified Offerings —
By Thoreau The ACLU has a platform for the next President. I approve of all the day 1 items and basically all of the first 100 day suggestions. A lot of the longer-term stuff is narrower in scope, and sounds good on the surface but I’m uncomfortable endorsing a long list of narrow items because devils can reside in details. Still, good stuff.
Stopping Torture
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The ACLU has created an agenda for the next president's first 100 days. Day one: The president should issue an executive order, on the first day in office, that orders all agencies to take immediate steps to ensure that torture and abuse is prohibited by the federal government, that no agency may use any practice not authorized by the Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogations, that no president or any other person may order or authorize torture or abuse, that all violations of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions are prohibited, that all persons ...
ACLU Set Agenda for Next President
Stop The ACLU —
Via ACLU: How to Begin Repairing the Damage to Freedom in America After Bush The next president will become chief executive of a nation that has been greatly weakened – in particular, our freedoms, our values, and our international reputation have been greatly undermined by the policies of the past eight years. Part 1 – Day One Day One: Stop Torture, Close Guantanamo, End Extraordinary Renditions 1. Stop Torture and Abuse 2. Close Guantanamo and Restore the Rule of Law for Detainees 3. End and Prohibit the Practice of Extraordinary Rendition Part 2 – First 100 Days 1. ...
Return to the rule of law? The horizon is yet obscure.
The Reaction —
... my anger is not yet completely gone. Regret for the lost years is what the tears were about, that and utter relief that this era has come to an end and a new one has begun. As I have said before, it is a sea change. And, at the moment on this Sunday, it is entirely enough. References: Michael Rattner at Dandelion Salad -- video on Obama and civil liberties. ACLU transition plan for the Obama administration: "Actions for restoring America." Rising Hegemon posted a neat cartoon of ...
Robert Koehler: Hope and Vision
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... That said, I don't wish to minimize the agenda items that are proliferating in the wake of Obama's victory. The ACLU, for instance, has put forth a transition plan titled: "Ask President-elect Obama to restore the America we believe in." On day one, it calls on the new president to stop torture, close Guantanamo, restore the rule of law for detainees and end the practice of extraordinary rendition. ...
Caroline Fredrickson: Marching Toward Justice on the 217th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... From the moment he takes office, President-elect Barack Obama will have the power to close the Guantánamo Bay prison, shut down the military commissions, stop abusive interrogations and prohibit the rendition of people to countries where they are likely to be tortured. These practices are a disgraceful perversion of everything good and decent this country stands for. ...
Progressives Promote Policies For New Administration
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... The ACLU’s project, “Actions For Restoring America: How to Begin Repairing the Damage to Freedom in America After Bush,” offers a list of “actions that the new president should take in order to decisively signal a restoration of American values and a rejection of the shameful policies of the past eight years.” The ACLU’s list of recommendations can be downloaded here. ...
