Rocky Anderson’s Remarks - Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 - Peace and Human Rights Rally - Salt Lake City

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Rocky Anderson’s Remarks - Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 - Peace and Human Rights Rally - Salt Lake City, Utah

Remarks by Ross C. “Rocky Anderson
Founder and President, High Road for Human Rights
www.highroadforhumanrights.org

Washington Square, Salt Lake City
May 28, 2008

You who are here today, raising your voices for an end to the tremendous abuses of power that are causing so much damage to our nation, are true patriots!

For the third time in as many years, President George Bush is visiting Salt Lake City, the capital city of the state in which he enjoyed the greatest margin of victory in both of his presidential elections. And for the third time, thousands of us are gathered here on the occasion of his visit to raise our voices out of great concern for our nation.

We join together as people of conscience – people who not only love our country and the values upon which our Constitution rests, but who strongly believe that our actions, and the actions in which our country engages, should be consistent with our most basic moral values.

We are grateful that Daniel Ellsberg has joined us today. He is perhaps the greatest example in our time of the courageous exercise of conscience, who put everything on the line – his security clearance, his career, and a possible life sentence in prison – to let the American people know the truth about the lies that led us into, and perpetuated, the catastrophic war in Vietnam.

We raise our voices in unison today because President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and other members of the administration have engaged, with the sad and dangerous complicity of Congress and much of the mainstream media, in unprecedented, egregious human rights violations; vast deceit of Congress and the American people; astounding crimes against peace, of the same nature as those for which men were convicted during the Nuremberg trials; war crimes; crimes against humanity; and blatant violations of our Constitution, the rule of law, our nation’s most critical treaty obligations, and the system of checks and balances so crucial to our constitutional democracy.

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[Ichingcarpenter]

1. I really like him

I hope he gets a part in the new administration.

I don't even know which candidate he supports.

[helderheid]

2. He endorsed Obama. :) I was in charge of the music at the rally and was a bouncer (HA!)

[helderheid]

3. I should have some great pics available soon. I got one with Daniel Ellsberg!

[helderheid]

4. kick

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5. FINE

[BuelahWitch]

6. A kick for Rocky!