The Video "Extraordinary Rendition of the Truth" may be able to help drive support for this bill. Click the notorture link below so see it. Please pass it along. The strong oppose torture. The weak allow it. Thank you Senator Kennedy!

Thank you Sidney Blumenthal. Ms Hughes - I hope you will see the entire movie. Consider it an easy to accomplish listening tour of the region. In preparation, how about viewing a 4 minute video of your administration’s colleagues’ torture denials? Watching this might help you to understand how tragically transparent the denials have been. Just click notorture below - the link below.

an oldie but goodie youtube on cheney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkK36st0F9Q

here are the torure denials - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaK3a3XSPA8 - incredible

The democrats need to play tapes of torture for Mukasey and then ask him if what he has seen is torture. The juxtaposition is pwerful. Have a look ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaK3a3XSPA8

you can find his book at amazon here http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Plane-Story-Torture-Program/dp/0312360231 - Extraordinary rendition and attendent torture must be stopped - click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e88ncBiTR9c for a video on Extraordinary Rendition

Bush Senior seems to tear up fairly regularly - and equally regularly makes absurd statements regarding the media suppsed inability to give his family an even break - this clip is no exception ... never the less compare his statements to the denials of his son and team regarding torture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaK3a3XSPA8 - what a startling contrast. Perhaps Bush senior and his generation of conservatives thought that the philosphical underpinnings of the nation were so firmly set that they could afford to induldge in far out extreme ideaology and pass it along to their children - what harm could it do? Turns out they were wrong - waterboarding is but one of the more extreme examples of the what his generation of conservatives has enabled and he has only himself to blame. John

Government officials in the US - from policemen with tasers to Cheney with waterboarding - have asserted the right to torture US and other citizens at will. Tasing is torture - just watch any video of a person being tasered - and people are tortured/tased before they are charged with - never mind convicted of - any wrong doing. This idea that torture will corrode our national soul and destroy our democratic society is not theoretical and not confined to high crimes like the Gitmo/rendition/torture policies which pit the most marginalized in our society against the most powerful. Torture - and more importantly the legitimized threat of torture - is currently embedded in every aspect of our civil life and changing our children's definition of what it means to be an American. From TV shows like cops - which glorify brutal chases and captures - to the you tubes of women and men abused in police custody - to the murder of citizens by police with Tasers or a gun they may have thought was a taser - the evidence of abuse and torture is everywhere but ... where are the prosecutions and the condemnation of such acts by national political leaders? Yes we need to investigate torture and abuse of authority but not only in Gitmo but across the country in every police station. Tasers are to our society today what the dogs and fire hoses were to the civil right movement. The president should ban their use. That would send as strong a message as any that the US does not condone torture. Can anyone imagine Cheney being tasered? doesn't that impossibility bring the two tier system into sharp focus?