Re: OT - This is serious

Fellow Gardeners, Please let's stick to gardening and remain friends.  I
just happen to be republican, but I shook hands with Jimmy Carter because he
was the president and deserved respect. There's only been 43!
Verona



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <EvaTEsq@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 10:58 PM
Subject: [CHAT] OT - This is serious


> Ok guys, now this is serious stuff.
>
> A lawyer of the Defense Department, William J. Haynes II, who authored a
memo
> concluding that the President wasn't bound by laws prohibiting torture and
> that government agents who might torture prisoners at his direction could
not
> be
> prosecuted by the Justice Department, has been nominated by Bush for a
> LIFETIME APPOINTMENT as a FEDERAL JUDGE.
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0607-01.htm
>
> I think you'll agree that anyone reaching that conclusion, or even making
an
> attempt to craft such an argument, has no business being a Federal Judge
for
> life.  Please scroll down to the website below and sign the petition
blocking
> this appointment.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eva
> Long Island, NY
> Zone 6/7
>
> *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
>
> Dear Friend,
> I just signed on to a petition with People For the American Way, asking
> President George W. Bush to withdraw his nomination of William Haynes to a
> lifetime
> seat on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. William Haynes is none other
than
> the General Counsel for the Department of Defense b the lawyer who helped
> design the administrationbs detention and enemy combatant policies.
> Do you want such a person deciding what is constitutional as a federal
judge?
> Join me in calling on Bush to withdraw this nomination. Putting a lawyer
> linked to the Abu Ghraib policies on the federal bench is so outrageous,
Bush
> needs to hear a loud and clear message on this one!
> Go here and sign now:
> http://www.pfaw.org/go/william_haynes/
>
>
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> Email Address: pfaw@pfaw.org
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