Even Worse
Sep 26th, 2006 at 10:03 am by Susie
Look, when our children and grandchildren want to know why no one did anything about this, what are you going to tell them? Call your senators, you don’t have anything to do today that’s more important:
1-866-808-0065
Republican lawmakers and the White House agreed over the weekend to alter new legislation on military commissions to allow the United States to detain and try a wider range of foreign nationals than an earlier version of the bill permitted, according to government sources.
Lawmakers and administration officials announced last week that they had reached accord on the plan for the detention and military trials of suspected terrorists, and it is scheduled for a vote this week. But in recent days the Bush administration and its House allies successfully pressed for a less restrictive description of how the government could designate civilians as “unlawful enemy combatants,” the sources said yesterday. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of negotiations over the bill. [...]
As a result, human rights experts expressed concern yesterday that the language in the new provision would be a precedent-setting congressional endorsement for the indefinite detention of anyone who, as the bill states, “has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States” or its military allies.
The definition applies to foreigners living inside or outside the United States and does not rule out the possibility of designating a U.S. citizen as an unlawful combatant.
I agree with you 100%. I can’t physically do anything - so I’m contacting every one of our elected representatives - imploring them, threatening them - telling them if they vote for this I will do my level best to see that both the Democratic and Republican Party are replaced with something better.
And I will do that even if it takes decades. This abomination cannot stand. And whatever we are all planning on doing - it had better be fast.
I heard Frist say today that he plans on taking this to a vote on Wednesday.
That means we all have only 1 day to effect a change. And I am praying. Hell - it can’t hurt! Maybe god will strike Dobson, McCain and the rest of those blood-thirsty motherfuckers down with a bolt of lightening.
called, for whatever good it does.
GOP tinkers with detainee definitions / Military commissions would get wider scope
Republican lawmakers and the White House agreed over the weekend to alter new legislation on militar
I called, and got a straightforward answer from
Boxer’s office, and a weaselly one from Feinstein’s.
Predictable, huh?