This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us

Did you do it for love?
Did you do it for money?
Did you do it for spite?
Did you think you had to, honey?
Who is gonna make it? Well find out in the long run (in the long run) I know we can take it If our love is a strong one (is a strong one) Well, were scared, but we aint shakin Kinda bent, but we aint breakin In the long run Ooh, I want to tell you, its a long run

We should be happy that so many liberals are finally waking up and deciding they are against torture. Maybe now they will speak up to their fellow travelers in some of the worst government's on the planet about this kind of stuff.

Wow I can fast and learn and demonstrate and educate and send the world a message of peace all on the same day? No wonder Jim is against it!

You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

The definitions of torture and related abuses are a matter of public record. There are internationally recognized standards. It is simply disingenuous to pretend that they don't exist. Hand-wringing comments that, gee, we just don't know what constitutes torture and related abuses, are in bad faith. They are not to be taken seriously.

In the past week alone, we have seen factual evidence that belies the need for the power play/pre-election attack on our Constitution. In fact, these developments indicate that giving Bush even more unprecedented power is not only unconscionable; it puts the national security of the United States of America in peril: Bush's newly "revamped" top 16 intelligence agencies reached the conclusion that the Iraq War had become a primary cause in the growth of terrorists and the increased threat of terrorism to the United States. Bush called the report of his own top intelligent agencies "naïve." Meanwhile, a second U.N. report came to the same conclusion as the American spy agencies. The U.N. also reported that more Iraqis may now be being tortured under U.S. occupation than were tortured under Saddam Hussein. ... The man who has endangered America, according to his own restructured intelligence agencies and the facts reported in just one week, is allowed to destroy our Constitution and decide, on his own, who will be tortured. This isn't just a Rubicon that has been crossed that may mean the death of the American Republic, as we know it. This isn't just our Reichstag fire. This is a suicidal act in terms of our national security. It is giving un-Constitutional and barbaric powers to a man who has miserably and persistently failed us and lied to this nation at every turn - as born out by the facts. It is a thuggish game of forcing an alternative reality upon America, a noxious, deadly one.

October 5 is the date for fasting for Darfur. Maybe these brilliant people should have checked before they picked their date to see what other organizations had something planned for October 5 so as not to take away from this important event.