"Bring Back the Draft!"

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Saturday July 10, 2010 · 6:57 AM PDT

2010/07/10 · 06:57

Some time ago, I was working in an office one night, and someone barged into the room. He had on a cut-off sweatshirt, I think cut-off jeans, and I know he had loafers on with no socks. I didn't know who he was. He said, "Move and you're dead." And he had a gun pointed right at me. I didn't move, so I am not dead. It turned out the office I was "working" in was the Douglas County Draft Board Office, in Alexandria, Minnesota, and it was a few minutes past midnight, forty years ago tonight, and the fellow with the gun, whom I didn't know, was an F.B.I. agent. The first thought that went through my mind was, "So, Bill, this was not a treasure hunt we were on!"

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Monday July 05, 2010 · 9:30 AM PDT

2010/07/05 · 09:30

I recently sent the following email to Dean Thomas Mengler of the University of St. Thomas School of Law. The local Tackling Torture at the Top group has been protesting there for several years. Robert Delahunty, while in the Office of Legal Counsel, co-wrote several memos with John Yoo, some of which still remain secret. Most notable of those released to the public is a Jan. 9, 2002, memo which said the Geneva Conventions did not apply to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees. That memo never mentioned the Convention Against Torture or the Youngstown Steel case, a seminal Supreme Court decision on Presidential powers. The Supreme Court rejected part of the Yoo-Delahunty analysis in its Hamdan decision. Mr. Delahunty is now a Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, where he has led prayer services, and whose Dean has defended him by pointing out that Delahunty was not involved in writing the more infamous "torture memos."

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Saturday January 30, 2010 · 5:12 PM PST

2010/01/30 · 17:12

Here's a resolution I will be introducing in my precinct caucus in Minnesota this Tuesday:

WHEREAS under color of law and on behalf of the United States, people have committed and conspired to commit torture;

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Friday January 29, 2010 · 8:36 AM PST

2010/01/29 · 08:36

This Tuesday is precinct caucus night in Minnesota. It’s the first step in the process leading to state conventions, a primary, and finally the election next fall. At the caucuses, resolutions are voted on for inclusion in the party platform and action agenda. Here’s my suggested resolution:

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 3:15 PM PST

2010/01/18 · 15:15

Out here in Brett Favre-land, a small group of us are demanding accountability for torture. Virtually every weekday since Nov. 12, 2009, we have conducted a daily one-hour vigil in front of the U.S.

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Thursday January 07, 2010 · 8:13 PM PST

2010/01/07 · 20:13

This Saturday, a time bomb will start ticking. The eight-year statute-of-limitations period applicable to the Federal Torture Statute will soon expire. Then, for time immemorial, it will be official: If you torture or conspire to torture in the name of the United States of America, no consequences will follow. We will have officially sanctioned torture.

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Tuesday December 22, 2009 · 4:28 PM PST

2009/12/22 · 16:28

When I heard that Condoleezza Rice was about to join the Board of the International Rescue Committee, I almost plotzed. Here's a letter I just wrote to the IRC:

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Friday December 11, 2009 · 11:06 AM PST

2009/12/11 · 11:06

Time is indeed running out. We are soon to become officially a nation that sanctions torture. At the time the United States ratified the Convention Against Torture (1994), we also passed a federal statute criminalizing torture and conspiracy to torture (18 U.S.C. Secs. 2340 and 2340A). That statute has a statute of limitations period of eight years,

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Saturday November 14, 2009 · 6:09 AM PST

2009/11/14 · 06:09

I recently explored a fairly new building on the University of Minnesota campus. It covered a whole city block, and I was curious what departments were located there.

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Sunday November 08, 2009 · 3:39 AM PST

2009/11/08 · 03:39

In a slightly altered form, the following opinion piece appeared last week in the University of Minnesota student newspaper, the Minnesota Daily. We hope a campus torture accountability group forms as a result of the Condi Rice appearance. We intend to call it "Root Out Torture Campaign." We like the acronym.

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Saturday November 07, 2009 · 5:25 AM PST

2009/11/07 · 05:25

The following letter was submitted to the F.B.I. yesterday morning. It describes some of the evidence for a conspiracy to commit torture charge against Condoleezza Rice.

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Thursday October 15, 2009 · 5:46 AM PDT

2009/10/15 · 05:46

Out here in flyover land, we like to congratulate ourselves on what we call "Minnesota Nice." It's mostly a myth, but our hospitality does have its limits. Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, has invited Condoleezza Rice to speak as part of its National Speaker Series -- at $50-$180 a pop and four figures for a private reception.

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