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Re: [RC] [RC] Sultan's Slave Trade - Howard Bramhall

This is a stand we should have taken a long time ago. Now that someone finally has it on film, how
on earth can we continue to keep going over there and participate in anything they sponsor?

For those of you who saw the show please contact your AERC representative and ask them to do this very thing. It's the right thing to do; it's the only thing to do.

We need to get our heads out of the sand on this one and quit pretending that it does not exist. For once, don't wait on our own government to take action when we can actually do something ourselves.

It may be a small thing but it really could get some recognition and snowball into other events such as thoroughbred racing, PGA golf tournaments and the tennis events they sponsor over there.

Inaction means you think it's OK or you just don't care. Please, send an email, it could make quite a difference if you do. This inhumane activity deserves an overwhelming response. Make a difference. Write to your AERC rep tonight.

I would like to see some of the DAL candidates speak out on this issue also. I, for one, would like to know where ya'll stand on this one. It's time for a change.

cya,
Howard

----Original Message Follows----
From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bobmorris@xxxxxxxx
CC: anyone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,  ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,  KimFue@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC]   Sultan's Slave Trade
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:39:41 -0400

Excuse me Bob, but the AERC Int Committee is a committee under the AERC BOD. Are you implying that AERC Int is not under to authority of the AERC BOD and acts solely on their own? So I suggest the proper place to start is with each director on the BOD.

Since you have been reading these post, consider this Email request to you as a BOD member for the AERC to boycott the 2004 WEC in the UAE for the reasons previously stated.

Truman

bobmorris@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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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