a letter to Polisci craig carr and Mark O Hatfield School of Governement head Ron Tammen and Kinsella Polisci

chair RE: Condoleezza Rice Torture Fundraising at Portland State University

craig carr regarding your sarcasm or haphazard comment advocating the "rack" and saying waterboarding is not strong enough as i sat in protest outside the university president's office

your positions taking money from a federal gvt which supports racist torture put you in a suspicious ethical light i appreciate that you were perhaps making a joke and or a semantic point about the severity of waterboarding, or the way "waterboarding" is the tip of the iceberg for American Torture methods so making jokes about waterboarding not being strong enough is very hurtful to victims of US waterboarding http://www.scribd.com/disbartorturelawyers for impt ACLU FOIA on torture and ABA complaints or http://velvetrevolution.us/torture_lawyers/index.php repped by kevin zeese bruce fein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0BfRW5NDbg against torture gareth peirce against torture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hZPXZOnUQ i do not find this a laughing matter and yes indeed waterboarding is but one of our various systems of torture be careful that sarcasm will prevent your actual meaning from being understood i do not think waterboarding victim abu zubaydah would find funny jokes about the lack of severity of waterboarding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Zubaydah after 83 instances of waterboarding 2002 in the month of august alone please stand with Students Against Torture and read more about the PSU Foundation accepting

torture advocate Condoleezza Rice speaking engagement. http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/09/410164.shtml?discuss basics 250/500 dollar tix also they are taking 5000 $ for a photo with condi why are we fundraising with someone who lied to the senate about torture? andy worthington is a scholar of gitmo http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/ and please read the gitmo files before you make denigrating torture jokes or jabs at a Student Against Torture http://wikileaks.org/gitmo/ i really would like some solidarity from staff here eng, mary