EMERGENCY! Please Call Your Senators!

[G_j]

EMERGENCY ACTION! REVERSE DISASTROUS AMENDMENT ON DETAINEES

With a sudden and disturbing development in Congress, the courts are on the brink of losing their authority to hear the cases of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. But today we have a chance to fix this.
In a close vote on Thursday, the Senate passed an amendment that would strip the already severely limited legal rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. They would not be able to challenge their detentions in U.S. courts - a right that prisoners have since the founding of this country!

You are in a unique position to help correct this grievous error - the Senate will vote again on this issue - as early as TODAY.

That means you can pick up the phone right now to call your Senators. It takes only two minutes!

Tell the staffer who takes your call:

I oppose Senator Graham's amendment stripping courts of their authority to review detainee cases.

The courts have been the one place where there has been meaningful oversight and review of Administration policy on detention and interrogation. We need the courts to continue to play this important role.

The U.S. is being criticized worldwide for its treatment of detainees. This amendment, by undermining the rule of law, takes us a step in the wrong direction.

I urge you to reject the Graham amendment.

"The Senate acted unwisely, and unnecessarily, in stripping courts of jurisdiction over Guantanamo detainees," Elisa Massimino, our Washington director, said in the New York Times on Friday. Read the articles if you would like to learn more before calling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/politics/11detain.html?pagewanted=1

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1641703,00.html


PLEASE ALSO CALL OR FAX THESE KEY SENATORS:

Collins (ME) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Snowe (ME) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Dewine (OH) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Mccain (AZ) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Warner (VA) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Hagel (NEB) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Nelson (NEB) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Conrad (ND)T: [phone] F: [phone]

Landrieu (LA) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Lieberman (CT) T: [phone] F: [phone]

Wyden (OR) T: [phone] F: [phone]

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"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." -Winston Churchill
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[madame defarge]

1. Thx. See also this post...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2249014

[SoFlaJet]

2. Yea as if

friggin LIE-berman cares what we think-he has his own agenda that he sticks to regardless.He is a disgrace IMO

[G_j]

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