– Howard – Inexcusable. “we were his (Sen. Kennedy) prey…”? What “we”
are you talking about? A senator who had bipartisan respect form his
colleagues is compared after he passes to JOHN GOTTI? That may pass
on your home planet, but on Earth we expect common sense to be used
by ALL citizens.

- extremerightwing – In order to vote, you should at least know when to use
capital letters at the beginning of a sentence.

- Les Miles – I agree completely. Politically-challenged whack jobs (like
extremerightwing et al.) don’t understand that if the 4th Amendment were
theoretically abolished to chase after “evildoers”, they would have more
to lose than the average citizen. The average citizen doesn’t stockpile
large amounts of weapons and explosives or write manifestos calling
attention to themselves or send mail-bombs to judges, editors and
CEOs. Maybe that’s because they seek to create the type of police-state
they claim to abhor in order to protect themselves from “undesirables”,
such as minorities, immigrants, etc. Those who fail to learn from the past
are doomed to repeat it.

CHRIS SAYS: Comments are finally allowed!!!! Hooray! That said, my beef with your reasoning here is that these actions went well beyond 9/11. In fact, many of the torture techniques used, were used 2-3 years later.

We prosecuted Japanese officers as war criminals after WWII and this type of torture was one of the crimes listed against them. An American soldier was photographed waterboarding a North Vietnamese POW, near Da Nang and the accompanying article described it as a common interrogation technique. Within one month of its publication, that soldier was court-martialled by a US military court and discharged from the military. The excuse “Just following orders” also does not hold any merit. That excuse did not hold any water when we prosecuted and convicted war criminals from Japan and Germany.

If the law is situational, it should be situational across the board.

August 24, 2009

On Monday, August 10, NYC CAN began a comprehensive review of the nearly 26,000 signatures invalidated by the New York City Board of Elections and City Clerk. With 26,003 signatures accepted as valid by the City, at least 3,997 additional signatures were needed to exceed the threshold of 30,000 signatures. 10 days, 50 volunteers and 1,000 man-hours later, we are thrilled to report we have so far discovered 6,924 signatures we will argue were wrongly invalidated.

In addition, the Court has granted an extension allowing us to complete our review of 6 unfinished volumes. We anticipate having well over 7,000 additional valid signatures once the review is complete. The 50+ individuals who helped conduct the review take great pride in knowing their work has stopped the silencing of 7,000 New York City voters and allowed their voices to be heard.

On Friday, August 28, we must serve a Bill of Particulars listing all signatures we argue should be deemed valid by the Court. Special Referee Louis Crespo will begin a line-by-line review of the disputed signatures on Tuesday, September 8, and is scheduled to complete his review by Friday, September 18.

Pending the outcome of the Court’s review of the disputed signatures, lawyers for NYC CAN and the City will begin arguing the legality of the petition’s proposed amendment to the City Charter.

Looking ahead, NYC CAN will submit an additional 28,000 signatures on September 3 to satisfy the requirement of 15,000 valid signatures needed to override the City Council’s failure to act on the petition. The 60-day period for the City Council to approve the referendum’s placement on the ballot ended today, August 24, 2009. If NYC CAN wins in court, the submission of 15,000 more valid signatures will guarantee the referendum’s placement on the ballot.

Legal proceedings are expected to last through the month of September, by which time a favorable determination from the Court is needed in order for the referendum to be placed on this November’s ballot. Over the last 25 years six ballot initiatives have been attempted in New York City. Only one has made it on the ballot: the 1993 initiative to limit New York City elected officials to two terms in office, whose supporters also had to go to court to prove the initiative legal before passage by the voters, and which was nevertheless undone by the City Council last year. We will battle against all odds to see that the initiative to establish a critically needed reinvestigation of 9/11 does not suffer the same fate as past ballot initiatives.

NYC CAN now calls upon its thousands of members and millions aware of the egregious inadequacy of the 9/11 Commission Report to help ensure our fight for a real investigation does not go unnoticed by the larger public. Nearly 80,000 New Yorkers have put pen to paper to call for the right of all New Yorkers to vote an impartial, independent investigation into existence. This momentous step forward in the quest for truth about September 11th will be looked upon with admiration across the globe. Through the ages those who have fought for justice did not win by backing down when their government said no. We will continue this fight and future efforts with the same determination that has gotten us to where we stand today.

http://www.NYCCAN.org

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