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PUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN YOUR YARD. No, not THOSE Ten Commandments - not that there is anything wrong with them. But if you Want to Make
a REAL STATEMENT
- and yet keep within the bounds of good taste while getting people
interested in bringing back that GOOD OLD USA with all of it's tried
and true Moral standards - then PLANT
THIS SIGN IN YOUR YARD!
TEN of the COMMANDMENTS of the Geneva Convention! Who can Argue with these?! Okay, so nutty hardcore wrong wingers can, but it won't do them any good, because NORMAL EVERYDAY American Citizens will shout them DOWN. (Besides, you can just tell the nutjobs that anyone that SUPPORTS TORTURE can just get out of YOUR YARD!) The text is readable in the PDF that's available at the Creator's site. Just Look how NICE they appear in yards, yours, your neighbors, empty lots - you can even print them out and stick them in windows of stores around the country (be sure to ask first) leave them in Laundromats - the possibilities are endless and represent the AMERCAN VALUES that most of us stand for...
Bill Fisher, an artist and teacher, contacted us here at Take Back the Media.com with his Yard Sign Project, which is a blend of art and activism with a dash of symbolism all mixed together to create a work that has the visual power to literally change the world from every little town and village around our nation - while it educates. Another way to Take Back America from the Crooks that keep claiming that WE are mixed up in their plans - or we somehow condone them. WE DON'T. Bush has created the atmosphere
of cruelty and lawlessness by ignoring the Geneva Conventions that will
come back to haunt OUR TROOPS when they are captured and tortured. There
are REASONS for these Conventions. Visit Bill's site - print out these signs and stick them up everywhere - we CAN make a difference and show the rest of the world we are NOT ASSOCIATED WITH CRIMINAL ACTS waged by Bush and his cronies - Rumsfeld (who BUSH PRAISED!), Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rice, and all the rest. These acts weren't just perpetrated by a few rogue soldiers who went unsupervised! This comes right from the TOP, the Commander in CHIEF created this situation and STILL has not resolved it. CLICK HERE TO VISIT BILL FISHER'S SITE or read more below. Yard Sign Project White and blue signs, approximately 1.5' x 2', are to be placed in front yards and other public locations. Designed to look similar to the ubiquitous * biblical "Ten Commandments" yard sign, it includes text from the Geneva Convention as it relates specifically to treatment of prisoners. If you would like to display this sign in your yard or elsewhere, click here to download a pdf file suitable for printing. You will either need a large format printer, or you can resize the image for your printer. I ask that you send digital documentation of your sign in place to wwfisher@alltel.net or william.fisher@gcsu.edu, or photographs may be mailed to Bill Fisher, CBX 094, GC&SU, Milledgeville, Georgia 31061. Please feel free to encourage others to participate. Project Rationale As our political leaders and media now focus on the outrage felt over the recent release of images of torture and humiliation of Iraqi Prisoners of War, it appears the "illegal" release of such images may be as repugnant as the actual abuses or their underlying causes. This may be inferred from the following excerpted testimony by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, Friday, May 7, 2004: "It's my failure for not understanding and knowing there were hundreds or however many there are of these (pictures) that could eventually end up in the public and do the damage they've done." "The photographic depictions of U.S. military personnel that the public has seen have unquestionably offended and outraged everyone in the Department of Defense. If you could have seen the anguished expressions on the faces of those of us in the Department upon seeing the photos, you would know how we feel today." "We're functioning in a -- with peacetime restraints, with legal requirements in a war-time situation, in the information age, where people are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise, when they had not even arrived in the Pentagon." "If these (pictures) are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse. That's just a fact. I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe. And if they're sent to some news organization, and taken out of the criminal prosecution channels that they're in, that's where we'll be. And it's not a pretty picture." "It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. Words don't do it. The words that there were abuses, that it was cruel, that it was inhumane -- all of which is true -- that it was blatant, you read that and it's one thing. You see the photographs and you get a sense of it and you cannot help but be outraged." Secretary Rumsfeld was one of the first to object when pictures of American hostages taken by the former Saddam regime were aired on television. He said this was harmful to their dignity and contravened Geneva conventions. However, according to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, it is the US government's position that even if it was torturing and executing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, no court could intercede. The WP editorial page charged Secretary Rumsfeld was to blame for the lack of accountability in prisons: "[Rumsfeld's] Pentagon ruled that the United States would no longer be bound by the Geneva Conventions (in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay); that Army regulations on the interrogation of prisoners would not be observed; and that many detainees would be held incommunicado and without any independent mechanism of review." According to Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, there are as yet unaddressed allegations of a separate unit at Abu Ghraib prison reserved for women and children. As our cause in Iraq is seen by many as morally superior to the cause of those Iraqis opposed to our presence there, the Judeo-Christian influence on our leadership and wartime policies can not be overlooked. The purpose of referencing the Ten Commandments in the Yard Sign Project is not to denigrate this ethical document which includes admonitions against killing, but rather to comment on the hypocrisy of displaying such a document or publicly espousing its content while supporting behavior which it specifically prohibits. The substituted text from the Geneva Convention is used to remind ourselves of both our claim to be civilized even in the event of war and our responsibility to the world community and to humanity, and to educate those unfamiliar with these universally accepted proscriptions on the maltreatment of prisoners. ******************************* THIS IS ONE WAY FOR US TO LET THE WORLD KNOW WE ARE NOT PART OF THESE CORPORATE KILLERS - WE ARE NOT OUT OF CONTROL LIKE THEY APPEAR TO BE. We respect our troops and want them propery trained and supervised and we DEMAND SANE AND DECENT leadership. We can change THAT when
we VOTE THIS NOVEMBER. Let them KNOW NOW. Symbolman co founder of Take
Back The Media.com
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