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Amnesty International called on Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia – where Bush is traveling to raise awareness of cervical and breast cancer and HIV/AIDS – to detain the former president pending an investigation into his role in authorizing waterboarding of suspected terrorists held by the U.S. between 2001 and 2009.

“All countries to which George W. Bush travels have an obligation to bring him to justice for his role in torture,” Matt Pollard, a senior legal adviser for Amnesty International, said in a statement.

The London-based group said it “recognizes the value of raising awareness about cervical and breast cancer in Africa,” but that the aim of the Bush visit “cannot lessen the damage” to the fight against torture caused by the 43rd president’s actions.

The call is a continuation of a campaign by Amnesty International urging countries to arrest Bush for authorizing waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.

In October, Amnesty called on Canada to arrest Bush when he visited British Columbia for an economic summit. Bush cancelled a visit to Switzerland in February after human rights groups sought his arrest there.

And, I found, there is really no reason to be so hooked up, everyone will just want immediate responses from you, always. Our society has lost the sense of self through impatience and disconnect from self. The need for instant response, instant gratification, instant appreciation, instant attention…instant brewed coffee…

The world will continue to spin without your constant technological connection to it. In fact, the world will spin just as well for you when you become more in touch with it and your place in it without all of the newest technology. Save your blood pressure. In the words of Dr. Timothy Leary, “Tune in, tune out, drop out” are still good words of advice.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNDN1M67G8.DTL&feed=rss.news