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HERE IS SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT TO YOUR FRIENDS: Since the MCA nixes habeas corpus (The right to challenge the legal grounds for one's detention) and the terrorist suspects are forbidden access to their own attorneys, most of them end up with nobody to prove their innocence or guilt, either way. Thus, to see a newspaper photograph accompanying a statement that a "terrorist" or even a ring leader has been caught, is to be questioned. These people have no way of proving if they are innocent (and according to the Red Cross, ,more than 70% of Guantanamo detainees are innocent) . THEREFORE NOBODY SHOULD ASSUME THAT JUST BECAUSE THEY SEE A NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPH, THAT SUCH A PHOTO SHOULD "PROVE" THAT THE PHOTO SHOWS AN ACTUAL TERRORIST. THIS COULD BE JUST PLAIN "SPIN" TO GAIN THE GOVERNMENT FALSE CREDIBILITY IN ITS PROWESS IN FIGHTING THE WAR ON TERROR. PLEASE SPREAD WORD!

Please send letters to your friendly editors suggesting that if we want OUR America back, the thing to do is to concentrate on getting GOOD people into office and to unseat about 80% of our current Congress.

When ant colonies are flooded, the ants cling together and float to safety. Then they continue right on with their work. No wonder they get so much accomplished. We discouraged Americans contribute to the hell we are in by remaining passive, assuring that Congress can literally get away with murder.

Let's team up like the ant colonies, even at this very moment that we are being flooded. The ants come marching two by two, haroo, haroo! Let's write our editors and help influence public awareness. THanks for your help!

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This quote summarizes the nature of my concerns and the content of personal experiences which stir my activism: "Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves". --Paul (more...)

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