A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

[ellenfl]

did anyone see this? {apologies if this is redundant}

Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights Week, 2005

Americans believe that freedom is God's gift to every man and woman in the world. The Founders adopted our Constitution to secure the blessings of liberty for the people of the United States, and since 1789, generations of Americans have defended and advanced freedom in our Nation.

Throughout our history, the United States has also worked to extend the promise of liberty to other countries. We are continuing those efforts today. We are promoting democracies that respect freedom of speech, freedom of worship, and freedom of the press and that protect the rights of minorities and women. We are standing with dissidents and exiles against oppressive regimes and tyranny.

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim December 10, 2005, as Human Rights Day; December 15, 2005, as Bill of Rights Day; and the week beginning December 10, 2005, as Human Rights Week. I call upon the people of the United States to mark these observances with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.

GEORGE W. BUSH

WhiteHouse.gov

:wtf:

Village Voice acompanying pic

ellen fl

[liontamer]

1. well it is human rights day

he had to say something

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Freedom is a gift from Dog?

Then why do we kill people to give it to them? :shrug:



This has Rove's ass prints all over it.

[Elidor]

3. The only "appropriate ceremonies and activities"

Are to run this gang of thugs out of town on a rail. There can be no lower form of human scum than that smegmatic whelp from Bab's nasty backside.

[Doctor_J]

4. Therefore, we will not torture anyone this week

[alarimer]

5. Unless you are dissenting against him

his hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[NMMNG]

6. Pardon me, but WTF does GWB know about human rights?

:shrug: :eyes: :crazy:

[Robeson]

7. Bush is in dire need of a history lesson. The founding fathers would...

...cringe if they thought our "freedoms" were "God's gift". They were products of the Enlightenment, and saw nothing of God, in our "gifts".

[jmowreader]

8. In Bush's America, the "appropriate ceremony" involves...

doing the Lynndie!



Yeah, George "no, we really DON'T torture people...that invoice for thumbscrews? They're....uhhh....little bolts! Really!" W(hat? Me worry?) Bush putting out a proclamation for Human Rights Day is about as feeling as...

[flordehinojos]

9. "freedom is God's gift to every man and woman in the world" only as George

sees fit to define it. which means that,
1) he really does not understand the meaning of FREEDOM and,
2) he snuffs the oxygen out of FREEDOM every which way he can.