Truman,Lynne, Kin and the others concerned with the
subject:
With
strong feelings such as you all have, it would serve you best if the comments
were directed towards the AERC International Committee and its Chair, Russell
Broussard/Mark Dial. The e-mail addresses are readily obtained from the Page 2
list in the Endurance News. Make your views known, stand up for what you feel is
correct and bring it to the attention of those heading the International effort.
The
other option is to forget about it.
Bob
Bob Morris Morris Endurance Enterprises Boise, ID
-----Original Message----- From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004
4:46 PM To: Ride Camp Subject: Re: [RC] Sultan's Slave
Trade
Lynne Glazer wrote:
Illegally, IOW, without the complicity of the authorities.
Not comparable, IMO.
Absolutely correct, Lynne. While this is
going on in the UAE, we are sending people to jail for abuse of prisoners in
Iraq. While the apologist keep pointing to all sorts of things saying "look
here, the same thing goes one here so it's okay," the thing they seem to fail
to realize that if there is some sort of slave trade in the US, it's
underground, it's illegal and neither George W. Bush, nor John Kerry nor
Dick Chaney, nor Jimmy Carter, nor George W. H. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Al
Gore, etc. are involved it it. The perpetrators of such slave
trade in this country will eventually be caught and have to answer to society
for their crimes. I doubt very seriously if that will happen in the UAE.
I would like to see the AERC take a public stand that it does not
support the WEC in the UAE and recommend to USAE that they withdraw the US
team. If the riders chose to go and ride as individuals that's their decision,
but as an organization we should expect a higher standard. As a country we
boycotted the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow because of the Soviet's atrocities
in Afghanistan. That was the right decision at that time, boycotting the WEC
would be the right decision now.
Truman
"You must not lose
faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are
dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." Mahatma Gamdi
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