RESTORE HABEAS CORPUS. NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY, WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT WE SAY!sm
With virtually no advance notice the Republican majority in the Senate approved a last minute amendment to the Defense Authorization Act to deny U.S. courts jurisdiction to examine the legality of detainee detention in Guantanamo and elsewhere.
They did this in defiance of the not yet completely packed Supreme Court (another reason to reject Alito), whose authority they would annul.
This is all despite the well-known FACT that many scooped up into these hell holes of torture are not terrorists at all, some even having been sold for bounty. Senator Bingaman immediately responded with a proposed corrective amendment (S.AMDT.2517) to restore jurisdiction. Is our government telling us that there is no possible way any of those people can be convicted of a crime, by even an American jury, if they were to have a fair trial? We also know that our own military attorneys were fired for protesting because the tribunals already established were such miscarriages of justice.
Tell your Senators to SUPPORT Bingaman Amendment 2517!
You can call your members of Congress right now on one of these toll-free numbers, 888-818-6641 or 888-355-3588.
There are operators on duty 24 hours a day. Just ask to be connected to your senators and they'll put you through.
If there is nobody in detention who can be convicted of anything without special kangaroo courts, then the real terrorists have indeed won, for we will then have abdicated all moral authority. Please contact your senators at once to tell them to support the Bingaman amendment. Won't you click a mouse one time to send your personal message now?
If you want to make sure your message gets through, the one click form below will send your personal message to both your
senators, on the subject,
"Support Bingaman Amendment 2517 (habeas corpus for detainees)."
At the same time you can send your personal comments only as a letter to the editor of your nearest
local daily newspaper if you like.
SUBMIT THIS ACTION FORM TO CONTACT ALL YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE & YOUR LOCAL PAPER AT ONCE:
Messages log for this question:
In the spirit of transparency and based your requests, you may now
Click Here To View The Last 25 Messages Transmitted. This will allow you to confirm that your messages have been received and logged accurately by our system (much like a weblog), allow our participants to get a sense of what their fellow constituents are thinking, plus allow any party receiving digests from us to monitor the integrity of the messages transmitted by us to them. We will endeavor to truncate most personal contact information (otherwise included in those digests and in your direct transmissions) from the display here for privacy reasons, though in the case of such information included in the body of your comments themselves, we may not catch some variant spellings.
Please tell us if you like this new experimental feature by
Your Kind Support, and we will extend this capability to our other issue pages, and we will continue to respond your requests for the innovative functions you want to see on the site.
Call in to your favorite progressive radio stations and ask them to give out the
alternate Senate toll-free phone numbers 888-818-6641, 888-355-3588. Talk
about the issue on the air yourself when you call. Click on the links below so you can listen
to the shows and let them know you are listening.
