Torture: the Fault is Not in Our Stars

What those who wish to attend the workshop will receive:

--A NO ADMITTANCE notice for those who have not read at least portions of:

1 - The four Department of Justice memoranda on torture [[http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/olc_memos.html ]], which President Obama decided to bear the political cost of releasing on April 16; and

2 - The CIA Inspector General's "Special Review" of May 7, 2004 [[click here ]] released, pursuant to an ACLU lawsuit, on August 24, 2009. (Yes, that's a wait of more than five years. Pay no heed to the heavy redaction. There is quite enough readable prose to "sicken" you.)

Fair labeling: do not read these before bedtime. And think a bit on what Obama and Holder may be expecting of us at this point. How often has President Obama told us "make me do" the right thing? Are we unable to imagine effective ways to do that?

--Those qualifying for admittance can expect a challenge to find effective ways to ensure that the history books read by our children and grandchildren will record that:

--The Bush/Cheney chapter on torture as an immoral aberration in the life of our country, and

--At least some of us refused to act as "silent Germans."

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