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As I write this, innocent people who were subjected to extraordinary rendition (grabbed off the street wherever in the world they were, and shoved onto a plane without being charged with a crime or brought to trial, often in cases of mistaken identity or having been wrongly accused by others under torture), are being held in secret U.S. prisons on foreign soil and are being tortured in our name, by our government or its paid mercenaries, all paid for with our tax dollars.If not for voter suppression and rigged elections, this could not have happened. If you or someone in your family was one of those innocents, your only hope would be that we would not give up, whatever the odds. If we can not stop what is happening to them today, it will happen to us tomorrow.
Please, whatever else you may be doing, for the sake of decency and humanity, take a moment to phone, email, or fax your legislators with the simple message: STOP THE TORTURE NOW! Even if we cannnot save our elections, even if we cannot save our democracy, even if we cannot save the planet, at least let us make this small attempt to try to save our souls.
Please forward this message as widely as possible. Thank you.
