[Peace-discuss] Torture referendum

[C. G. Estabrook]

John, your estimate of your fellow-citizens' intelligence is as always 
unnecessarily low.

Two corrections: the draft sentence should of course end with a question mark, 
and the meeting is not this Tuesday but next.  --CGE

John W. wrote:
> At 06:16 PM 3/30/2008, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
>> Here's a draft of a referendum to be proposed at the Champaign 
>> Township annual meeting Tuesday night:
>>
>> "Noting that Representative Timothy Johnson voted to override 
>> President Bush's veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA 
>> from using torture, shall the citizens of Champaign Township urge our 
>> congressional representatives to renew their efforts to pass such a 
>> bill."
> 
> 
> How many Peace-discuss readers think that this sentence is way too 
> complex and convoluted for the average reader?
> 
> Did (and does) Tim Johnson support the actual anti-torture bill?
> 
>