PDNC Signs Letter Endorsing SBI Investigation of Torture Flights

The Progressive Democrats of NC are proud to join other progressive organizations and legislators in NC as a signatory of the ACLU-NC letter calling for an official SBI investigation into Aero Contractors and their involvement in what appears to be illegal extraordinary renditions leading to torture. The PDNC believes that it is absolutely essential that the US Constitution and the rule of law itself not become casualties of the current "Dirty War", and that the US must never resort to the barbaric tactics used by repressive regimes in the past and present. Any organization involved in torture must be investigated, and, if found guilty, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
 
Torture is terrorism. Plain and simple.

Aero Contractors is a contract air carrier that has been identified as a participant in the CIA-sponsored "extraordinary rendition" program and which uses the facilities of state-funded Global TransPark as well as the Johnston County airport in Smithfield.  Working for the CIA, Aero Contractors has flown persons kidnapped in various countries to secret locations in other countries, where they were held incommunicado and tortured.

In order to ensure that our state tax dollars will no longer be used to sponsor torture flights, the ACLU of North Carolina and North Carolina Stop Torture Now have launched a campaign to gather signatures from non-profit civil rights, human rights, professional, community-based, and faith-based groups on a letter to state, federal, and Johnston County officials as well as Global Transpark Board members, demanding an investigation. 

For more information on Stop Torture Now, go to: http://www.ncstoptorturenow.org/
 
To see the letter, and to sign as an individual, go to: http://www.petitiononline.com/Aero/