Posted on 11/02/2008 11:42:35 AM PST by CE2949BB
How to Begin Repairing the Damage to Freedom in America After Bush
The next president will become chief executive of a nation that has been greatly weakened – in particular, our freedoms, our values, and our international reputation have been greatly undermined by the policies of the past eight years.
Part 1 – Day One
Day One: Stop Torture, Close Guantanamo, End Extraordinary Renditions
1. Stop Torture and Abuse
2. Close Guantanamo and Restore the Rule of Law for Detainees
3. End and Prohibit the Practice of Extraordinary Rendition
Part 2 – First 100 Days
1. Warrantless spying. Issue an executive order recognizing the president’s obligation to comply with FISA and other statutes, requiring the executive branch to do so, and prohibiting the NSA from collecting the communications, domestic or international, of U.S. citizens and residents.
2. Watch lists. Issue an executive order requiring watch lists to be completely reviewed within 3 months, with names limited to only those for whom there is credible evidence of terrorist ties or activities.
3. Freedom of Information – Ashcroft Doctrine. Direct the attorney general to rescind the “Ashcroft Doctrine” regarding Freedom of Information Act compliance, which instructs agencies to withhold information whenever there is a “sound legal basis” for doing so, and return to the compliance standard under Attorney General Janet Reno, which promoted an “overall presumption of disclosure” of government information through the FOIA unless it was "reasonably foreseeable that disclosure would be harmful.”
4. Monitoring of activists. Direct the attorney general and other relevant agency heads (eg, Defense and Homeland Security) to end government monitoring of political activists.
5. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. Order renewed civil rights enforcement at Civil Rights Division, DOJ.
6. Real ID Act. Direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend the regulations (73 Fed. Reg. 5272) for the Real ID Act pending congressional review.
7. Abortion gag rule. Rescind the Executive Memorandum of March 28, 2001, known as the “Mexico City policy” or “Global Gag Rule,” prohibiting foreign aid to organizations overseas that promote or perform abortions.
8. Ban all workplace discrimination against sexual minorities by the federal government and its contractors. Issue an executive order prohibiting sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination by federal contractors, and expand the existing order banning sexual orientation discrimination in federal employment to also protect against gender identity discrimination.
9. Death penalty. Implement a federal death penalty moratorium until racial disparities are addressed. The federal death penalty system suffers from obvious and extreme racial disparities.
10. “Faith-based initiatives.” Restore fundamental religious-liberty protections by halting Bush Administration efforts to permit direct funding of houses of worship, underwrite religious proselytism with taxpayer dollars, and allow government-funded religious discrimination.
““Faith-based initiatives.” Restore fundamental religious-liberty protections by halting Bush Administration efforts to permit direct funding of houses of worship, underwrite religious proselytism with taxpayer dollars, and allow government-funded religious discrimination.
“...Bush Administration efforts to permit direct funding...and allow government-funded religious discrimination...”
Oh ho. So the ACLU is going to go after religions for discrimination now under Comrade Zero?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
F the ACLU.
“8. Ban all workplace discrimination against sexual minorities by the federal government and its contractors. “
Maybe this will be the function of the new Obama proposed “Domestic Security Force.” I imagine an army of clipboard carrying functionaries coming to the office monitoring P.C. regulations. Oddly I think women outnumber men, so the ACLU is suggesting that they will fight for the rights of male “sexual minorities” against these oppressive women.
Watch lists? Monitoring of political opponents?
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. If Obama takes office, tyranny takes over.
Keep your eye on the ball with this group ~ ignore that other stuff they peddle ~ what they really want to do is engage in sex with children.
Anything the aclu wants is bad for the USA.
“I imagine an army of clipboard carrying functionaries”
Try imagining an army of baseball bat carrying functionaries. That’ll be more like it. Thugs don’t carry clipboards.
Please, ACLU, tell me how giving my tax dollars to foreign abortion providers "restores" America? Are you (the ACLU) in favor of reducing the populations of those countries?
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