the Shackle Report

The Shackle Report was created as a humor site because, after 9-11 the torture lobby was so well tolerated by the public there didn’t seem to be much that believers in the universality of human rights could do other than laugh at our own political impotence.

But that is obviously changing now. There is enough evidence to implicate the White House in the deliberate flauting of international and national anti-torture law. There’s clear evidence, too, that they tried conceal their flauting with that most popular of flaut-concealers: lying through their teeth. The government should have no license to knowingly break laws, especially when breaking the law weakens the country. It is time to demand that the government be held accountable.

Here’s an excellent video by www.CondiMustGo.com Please go to their site and sign their petition to McCain, Obama and Clinton asking for Rice’s resignation. Better yet, write a letter or make a call on your own. (Email is so easy to send that politicians tend to discount it.)

We first heard of this campaign via Charles Kaiser’s excellent piece on “Torture Fatigue” at RADAR Online.