OpEdNews - Diary: Please sign this ACLU Petition: STOP kidnapping anywhere in the globe!!

July 31, 2008 at 07:56:57 Permalink
Please sign this ACLU Petition: STOP kidnapping anywhere in the globe!!

Diary Entry by Kathryn Smith (about the author)

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RED ALERT!!! Please sign this petition by the ACLU and pass it on to everybody in your address book. Mukasey and Bush want to declare the entire globe, including the USA, a "battlefield" in which anybody designated by Bush himself as "Enemy combattant" is locked away forever without right to legal counsel. Not funny at all. Congress is poised to pass this, unbelievable! We MUST act and we MUST NOT EVER do nothing here. Thanks!

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Dear Opednews editors:
This matter was circulated by the ACLU and they asked that it be forwarded to others. Reprinting should be okay and the matters at stake are absolutely urgent. Please print this! Thank you.

Subject: No laughing matter

This sounds so outrageous, it seems like a joke or something out of "The Onion."

Attorney General Michael Mukasey is demanding that Congress issue a new declaration of war so that anyone that this president or the next one declares to be an "enemy combatant" can be held indefinitely without a trial.

The new declaration of war would make the entire globe — including the United States itself — a “battlefield” where the president decides who will be locked up forever.

With only five weeks left in the Congressional schedule and only six months left in the Bush presidency, Mukasey’s ridiculous power grab should be laughed out of town. But given this Congress’ track record, the Mukasey proposal is no laughing matter. Especially because it also includes a cover-up of the Bush administration’s systemic torture and abuse of detainees.

We can’t take for granted that Congress will reject this ourtageous proposal. We have to meet it with an immediate wall of protest that says to Congress: “Don’t you dare.”

I just told my members of Congress to reject the dangerous Bush/Mukasey plan. You can do the same thing here:

http://action.aclu.org/mukasey

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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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