I voted in the past election. I have written my senators and representative. I intend to vote again next Tuesday. I have done everything I can...
But my hands are tied by living in Massachusetts. Because I live in Massachusetts, I have very little say in the debate, this being a state without republicans to vote out of federal office.
And wouldn't it be nice if only Republicans were abridging human rights in the crusade for revenge?
Ted Kennedy voted to remove the Patriot Act sunset clause last March, along with every single other member of the Senate.
Thankfully he *did* vote against the Military Commisions Act of 2006 - though perhaps he would have voted for it with the amendment that required the State Department to notify other signatories to the Geneva Conventions that we're not okay with them doing what we're going to do. He sponsored that amendment, along with Feinstein. It's unclear to me.
But suffice it to say that his record is not clean either. So don't feel like you can't have any effect.
"Justice Department attorneys argued in their filings that stricter rules are needed because some defense lawyers have abused the system by sending detainees news articles about terrorist attacks in London, Iraq, and Israel; by providing a book about abuses of detainees in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison; and by giving a detainee a transcript of a speech given at a conference held by the human-rights group Amnesty International."
Abused the system? The hell? I really hope they never classify me as an "enemy of the state".
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But my hands are tied by living in Massachusetts. Because I live in Massachusetts, I have very little say in the debate, this being a state without republicans to vote out of federal office.
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Ted Kennedy voted to remove the Patriot Act sunset clause last March, along with every single other member of the Senate.
Thankfully he *did* vote against the Military Commisions Act of 2006 - though perhaps he would have voted for it with the amendment that required the State Department to notify other signatories to the Geneva Conventions that we're not okay with them doing what we're going to do. He sponsored that amendment, along with Feinstein. It's unclear to me.
But suffice it to say that his record is not clean either. So don't feel like you can't have any effect.
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Abused the system? The hell? I really hope they never classify me as an "enemy of the state".
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