It's time to close down "secret" jails

Yesterday various news services reported that the "The U.N. Human Rights Committee on Friday told Washington it should immediately shut all "secret detention" facilities and give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to anybody held in armed conflict." See FULL STORY HERE.

Again I come back to due process, the rule of law, and our image around the world. We are supposed to be an example of how the rule of law works. Instead, we are running the new Gulags. We are seen around the world as violators of human rights, instead of a moral beacon. All in five years....it is so sad.

I continue to be shocked at how little air time this story got. Here the United Nations calls on OUR COUNTRY to stop secretly seizing people and holding them in jails hidden around the world without due process, or even Red Cross access. Nobody cares.

Election time approaches. These issues need to be asked to everyone running for office:
1. Do you support running hidden jails for people seized and held without warrants?
2. Do you support warrantless wiretaps?
3. Do you support using torture on prisoners?
4. Do you support prosecuting people who leak information on illegal government activities?
5. Do you support holding prisoners forever without ever filing charges against them?
6. Do you support an all powerful presidency?
7. Do you agree that the United States should be an example of the rule of law and due process for all?