Who Will George Bush Torture In Your Name?

[helderheid]

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Urgent Alert!

Don't Let the President Legalize Torture

Tell The Senate: Torture is Un-American
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=21387

The Bush Administration is pushing for legislation that will officially sanction the use of evidence obtained through torture. This is un-American -- and unacceptable.

Take Action
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=21387

The White House is currently pushing for a new law to allow torture of detainees in the "war on terror" -- a law that would violate the Geneva Conventions and contradict our United States Constitution.

The proposed law would allow evidence to be withheld from defendants in terrorism trials, and severely restrict the fundamental right of habeas corpus. It would apply retroactively to 2001 -- thus protecting Administration officals for illegal acts they may have committed. Most notably, it would allow the use of coerced testimony in military tribunals -- even though this information has been shown not to be reliable.

Tell your Senators NOT to let the President legalize torture.
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=21387

In contrast, Senators Graham, McCain and Warner have recently defied the White House and helped pass different legislation out of the Senate Armed Services Committee. This bill has very significant flaws - but is a great deal better than the Administration's proposal.

Their legislation would bar the U.S. military from engaging in "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" of detainees, from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross, and from using interrogation methods not authorized by a new Army field manual. These principles should be taken as a bare minimum for any detainee policy that Congress passes into law.

Tell the Senate -- the President's torture proposals are simply unacceptable, and must never pass the Senate.

It's vitally important that this administration not be allowed to wipe out our constitutional freedoms and protections under the guise of protecting us from terrorism. So take action today!

Want to increase your impact? Share this message with friends and family who are concerned about, or simply unaware of, the President's new proposals to legalize torture.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Will Easton
Manager, ActForChange.com
Working Assets

[Chemical Bill]

1. Probably me. n/t

[helderheid]

3. mrph!

:scared:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. Hey maybe that's something they can do to help pay off all the

debt we are currently accumulating because of this war. You know like how they sell brinks in the street with your name on them. Except here you could send in a certain amount of money and then get a plaque back with the name of the person who was tortured in your name in the war on terror to keep America safe.

You know something you could frame up and put on the wall in the living room like maybe with an autographed picture of the president beside it with a complementary picture of the big hole in the ground where the towers use to be. Just a thought as we should probably be thinking now about how we're going to pay back all the money that this cabal has leveraged our future against.

[zbdent]

4. WWJT? WWJWB?

Who would Jesue torture? Who would Jesus "water board"?

[bdamomma]

5. signed and thanks