letter to President Elect Obama from Amnesty International

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Dear President-elect Barack Obama
You can bring to an end the previous administration's seven-year assault on human rights.
I call on you to demonstrate your commitment to justice by:

Announcing the timeline to close Guantánamo
Issuing an executive order to ban torture and other ill-treatment as defined under international law
Ensuring that an independent inquiry into the USA’s detention and interrogation practices in its “war on terror” is set up
These are three key steps on Amnesty International’s checklist for your first 100 days in office.
You can counter terror with justice. We are counting on you.

Personal Message:

President Obama,

A radical shift away from the politics of old is needed. The most important things in this world are empathy for our fellow persons, and preservation of global justice. We cannot hold persons indefinitely and destroy their lives. We must work to educate members of the global community and teach the true foundations of moral thought -compassion, love, honor, respect, keeper of thy brother and sister, do unto others as you would want done unto you- so that we don't backtrack and destroy other lives to ostensibly protect our own.

Sincerely,
Ryan Gordon