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As part of the Cheapest Accutane online take action campaign in the aftermath of the extremely close June 2007 vote in the Cheapest Accutane online House of Representatives, activists nationwide are participating in a grassroots effort to Cheapest Accutane online hold Members of Congress accountable for their votes in Congress. In many instances, House Representatives switched their votes as political favors, ignored the Cheapest Accutane online wishes of their constituents, and refused to question the flawed information from Cheapest Accutane online the WHINSEC PR campaign. SOA Watch identified 26 SOA Accomplices and Cheapest Accutane online put a call out for district office meetings, call-in days, and Cheapest Accutane online letters to the editor in local media outlets. Here are a few fantastic letters to the editor that were published: Representative votes for terrorism if it's the doing of the U.S. Palladium Item Richmond, IN July 12, 2007 By: Lonnie Valentine, Richmond An anti-terrorist piece of legislation was almost approved by the Cheapest Accutane online U.S. House of Representatives, but our Representative Mike Pence voted against it. The School of the Cheapest Accutane online Americas has been training members of Latin American military on "counter-insurgency" techniques including that Cheapest Accutane online of torture used in U.S. prisons during our current conflict in Iraq. The SOA or Cheapest Accutane online WHINSEC, a U.S. taxpayer-funded school located at Fort Benning, Ga., made headlines in 1996 when Cheapest Accutane online the Pentagon released training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and Cheapest Accutane online execution. Despite this shocking admission and hundreds of documented human rights abuses connected to Cheapest Accutane online soldiers trained at the school, no independent investigation into the training facility has Cheapest Accutane online ever taken place. The institution has Cheapest Accutane online refused to make public the names of its graduates and instructors since 2005, preventing the Cheapest Accutane online work of human rights organizations that in the past used said information to Cheapest Accutane online identify many of the school's alumni as guilty of crimes against humanity in their home countries. However, past graduates included many known human rights violators, such as Manuel Noriega, former dictator of Panama. A number of past graduates accused and Cheapest Accutane online in some cases convicted of human rights violations returned to the Cheapest Accutane online school as instructors. The School of the Cheapest Accutane online Americas is a terrorist training camp and hurts the reputation of the Cheapest Accutane online United States. Recently, a number of Latin American countries have Cheapest Accutane online refused to send soldiers there for training. However, Mike Pence continues to Cheapest Accutane online support this place. So, Mike Pence supports terrorism, as long as the Cheapest Accutane online U.S. does it. First step in the war on terror: Win back our integrity. Bucks County Courier Times Bucks County, PA July 11, 2007 By: Linda Manzo I am Cheapest Accutane online astounded and deeply disappointed to find that Congressman Patrick Murphy was one of only 42 Democrats to Cheapest Accutane online vote with the Republicans who narrowly defeated the McGovern amendment (HR 1707) that Cheapest Accutane online would have eliminated the funding for and essentially closed the infamous "School of the Americas" (aka Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation). This school has Cheapest Accutane online graduated over 61,000 Latin American soldiers since 1946. Those graduates include many brutal Latin dictators as well as known human rights abusers. In 1996, the Cheapest Accutane online Freedom of Information Act forced the Pentagon to release "Torture Training Manuals" used at the Cheapest Accutane online school that advocated various techniques calling for intimidation through torture aimed specifically at those calling and Cheapest Accutane online organizing for social justice such as religious workers, teachers, labor organizers and Cheapest Accutane online those working with the poor. During the Cheapest Accutane online 1980s and 1990s the following are just a sampling of the Cheapest Accutane online atrocities proven to involve known graduates of the school: The torture, assassinations and Cheapest Accutane online disappearances continue today in Mexico and Columbia, where the majority of the Cheapest Accutane online SOA students currently come from. Congressman Murphy received video as well as literature documenting the Cheapest Accutane online history of this institution, verifying the findings released under the Freedom of Information Act, and Cheapest Accutane online petitions with over 75 signatures of Bucks County residents. He also received numerous e-mails and Cheapest Accutane online letters from constituents who thought they were voting for a change in November. I was assured by his staff that Cheapest Accutane online he had reviewed the information so my question is, "What did he not understand?" The first step in a "war on terror" has Cheapest Accutane online to be to restore our integrity and remove the blemish on our history. We cannot have Cheapest Accutane online credibility on this issue when we are training and exporting terror from Cheapest Accutane online Ft. Benning, Ga. Congressman Murphy, what were you thinking? Linda Manzo Langhorne, PA Sources: United Nations Truth Commission Report, March 15, 1993; SOA Watch (Washington DC), http://www.soaw.org; "School of Assassins" by Jack Nelson Pallmeyer (ORbis Press). I also visited Nicaragua and Cheapest Accutane online El Salvador during the civil wars of the 80s and 90s and Cheapest Accutane online had the opportunity to listen to people's stories. David Cook: An Open Letter to Rep. Zach Wamp The Chatanoongan Richmond, IN Chatanooga, TN July 26, 2007 By: David Cook Rep. Wamp, I have Cheapest Accutane online seen your name and face in three peculiar locations within the Cheapest Accutane online last month. The first was on the cover of Chattanooga Christian Family, a Cheapest Accutane online free local publication whose mission is to "promote positive living'' through examples of area Christians. The front page pictured you Cheapest Accutane online seated at your Congressional office desk, with a hearty and kind smile, while the Cheapest Accutane online interior article described what could be called your conversion experience. I respect your Cheapest Accutane online honesty and simplicity in telling your spiritual story, and find that Cheapest Accutane online we share a similar faith. You mentioned that you became a Cheapest Accutane online Christian in elementary school, but this was an elementary faith that Cheapest Accutane online did not become real until you hit, as a wise friend once described it, "the Cheapest Accutane online barroom of your soul.'' Your Christ became real at that point, not elementary, and Cheapest Accutane online I understand this quite clearly, and my letter to you is Cheapest Accutane online written in the spirit of such brotherhood. Yet, because of my own Christ-haunted experience, this Cheapest Accutane online letter is also written in a spirit of great sorrow, concern and Cheapest Accutane online anger. For the Cheapest Accutane online Christ that I know is a non-violent Christ, a suffering God who Cheapest Accutane online lived as a poor prisoner, a compassionate God who forgave his enemies, and Cheapest Accutane online a radical God who told his friends to lay down their swords and Cheapest Accutane online above all things, to love one another. And the following two places I have Cheapest Accutane online seen your name and face this last month suggest your Christianity is Cheapest Accutane online drastically different than mine. I find your Cheapest Accutane online appearance in Chattanooga Christian Family to greatly contradict your appearance at the Cheapest Accutane online Oak Ridge Y-12 Complex earlier this month. The Y-12 Complex produces the Cheapest Accutane online majority of the nation's uranium for its nuclear weapons arsenal. You and Cheapest Accutane online other officials at the ceremony applauded two new Y-12 buildings for Cheapest Accutane online their ability to generate more than $1 million in area taxes, and Cheapest Accutane online for their ability to upgrade Oak Ridge's uranium production. "These two facilities change the Cheapest Accutane online face of Y-12,'' you were quoted as saying. No, Congressman, they do not change the Cheapest Accutane online face of Y-12. They only add more madness to our government's hell-bent philosophy that Cheapest Accutane online nuclear weapons will bring peace on earth. Would Christ have toured such a Cheapest Accutane online facility, with its uranium and capacity for massive death and destruction? Would he have Cheapest Accutane online applauded such weapons, since the weapon he gave his followers were spiritual, and Cheapest Accutane online not nuclear? Would he have Cheapest Accutane online smiled warmly at the billions of annual dollars suffocated by the Cheapest Accutane online nuclear weapons industry, which instead could be distributed among righteous things - like the Cheapest Accutane online world's suffering poor? As a Cheapest Accutane online Christian, you believe that Christ was God in human form. Let us then Cheapest Accutane online consider all the forms of man Christ could have chosen to Cheapest Accutane online inhabit (a soldier, a general, a politician) and Cheapest Accutane online then meditate on the form he did choose: a poor blue-collar worker, who Cheapest Accutane online entered homelessness and prison and the gallows preaching a radical gospel of love, forgiveness, compassion and Cheapest Accutane online revolution. Granted, Christ is big enough for all men and women, and Cheapest Accutane online I most certainly am not suggesting one cannot be a Christian and Cheapest Accutane online a soldier, general, or politician. I am suggesting, though, that one cannot be Cheapest Accutane online such and applaud, celebrate and promote nuclear weapons. I do not understand how you could either. The war in Iraq has Cheapest Accutane online cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars. If the war had Cheapest Accutane online not been fought, a tiny portion of this money could have Cheapest Accutane online gone in other ways: $37 billion to provide clean water for the entire globe; $5 billion to end global illiteracy; $24 billion to Cheapest Accutane online cut world hunger in half. Imagine the choice Christ would have Cheapest Accutane online made and compare that choice to Washington's. Regrettably, the Cheapest Accutane online third place I saw your name this month was in the Cheapest Accutane online No Vote column in regards to HR 2764, also known as the Cheapest Accutane online McGovern/Lewis Amendment, which was a Cheapest Accutane online bill designed to remove funding from the School of the Americas. The SOA is Cheapest Accutane online a branch of Georgia's Fort Benning that is used as a Cheapest Accutane online boarding school of sorts for Central American dictators and death squads who Cheapest Accutane online send their troops to the SOA (whose name has been whitewashed to WHINSEC) where Cheapest Accutane online they receive expert instruction on, essentially, how to kill, torture and Cheapest Accutane online terrorize. The SOA has been operating for decades, and many priests in the Cheapest Accutane online southern Americas have begged, pleaded, prayed and written politicians in Washington asking that Cheapest Accutane online their funding of such violence end, immediately. In most cases, the Cheapest Accutane online folks suffering are the poor workers, who Christ identified mostly with. If you Cheapest Accutane online want to find me, He said, then visit the poor, the Cheapest Accutane online widowed, the hungry, the naked. These are the people who suffer under the Cheapest Accutane online School of the Americas, and in an open letter to you Cheapest Accutane online earlier this spring, I described such atrocities, and asked you to Cheapest Accutane online vote to stop such funding. I was saddened and confused to Cheapest Accutane online see you did not truly hear my pleas, and voted to Cheapest Accutane online support such violence. Many moons ago, the Cheapest Accutane online priest and war-resister Daniel Berrigan declared that "seeking logic from Cheapest Accutane online governments is like pressing stones for blood.'' Underneath this bold declaration is Cheapest Accutane online the belief that governments like yours and mine, which are massive in their ability to Cheapest Accutane online create weapons and systems of destruction like our trillion dollar military budget, are Cheapest Accutane online so far removed from the logic of truth. What is that Cheapest Accutane online truth? That love is Cheapest Accutane online the first and last, the alpha and omega, the door by which we are Cheapest Accutane online to enter peace on earth. Nuclear weapons and the death of poor people violate this truth. On Saturday, Aug. 4, in memory of the Cheapest Accutane online 1945 atomic bombing of Japan, a large group of Americans will gather outside the Cheapest Accutane online Y-12 gates in Oak Ridge under the banner of an organization Stop the Cheapest Accutane online Bombs! In the Cheapest Accutane online spirit of brotherhood and fellowship, I ask you to join me here at this Cheapest Accutane online protest. I promise to suspend all journalism and walk and talk with you Cheapest Accutane online in the spirit of brotherhood. You were there in July for Cheapest Accutane online another ceremony of sorts. I invite you now to join a Cheapest Accutane online more truthful one. In the words of Thomas Merton: "The Son of Man is never glorified by human violence.'' David Cook is Cheapest Accutane online a former journalist for the Chattanooga News-Free Press. He currently teaches American history at Girls Preparatory School |
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