Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
A large segment of the population of the United States agrees with Sarah Palin. They love the idea of censoring books and other forms of free speech. They believe that it’s the government’s job to protect people from dissent.
The Republicans continue to insist that they need to torture, or as they say “use extreme interrogation methods”, in order to defeat terror. They don’t appear to grasp the irony that the very purpose of torture is to increase terror, not to defeat it. How can you fight terror by torturing people? You can’t.
Politicians like Hillary Clinton need a reminder that government spying against Americans is unAmerican. If Hillary Clinton will not show up to do her job in the Senate to defend us from government spying, then she no longer deserves the support of voters – not for her campaign for President, and not to be re-elected to the Senate either.
What the heck is Homeland Security good for? If Homeland Security could not stop this simple form of domestic terrorism, why should we continue to support Homeland Security and its assault on the freedoms guaranteed us by the Constitution. Homeland Security is a sham.
Brian Higgins voted for a rotten law called the Protect America Act. The Protect America Act removes enforcement of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, effectively killing an essential part of the Bill of Rights. Under the new law, Alberto Gonzales is given the power to start spy operations against Americans without a search warrant and without any supervision or control. The law Higgins voted for specifically contradicts the Fourth Amendment, which demands that searches only be approved by warrant backed up by oath or affirmation, and requires that searches only be authorized for specific targets. The Protect America Act allows Alberto Gonzales to send out spies to read Americans’ email and listen to their telephone calls in blatant violation of these requirements.
Abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass argued that the thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
June has been dedicated as Torture Awareness Month, with June 26 marked by the United Nations General Assembly as International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On June 26, there will be discussions, vigils, and anti-torture demonstrations in observance of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Please consider being among the participants.
Chris Dodd introduced the most serious, comprehensive legislation to repeal the outrageous anti-liberty Military Commissions Act. Only one other candidate than Chris Dodd has co-sponsored the legislation by Senator Diane Feinstein to close the gulags of Guantanamo Bay.
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