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I called both my senators already, and got a good response from one of them (Blanche Lincoln.) The office for my other Senator, Mark Pryor, was noncommittal, but Leahy's website says Pryor will vote in favor of Habeas Corpus.
Please, everyone, call your senators to break this filibuster.
by Pompatus on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 02:41:40 PM PDT
I've been bogged down with work and I thought someone would have posted this alert sooner to tell the truth.
It has me wondering... is everyone aware of this or do they not realize the importance of Habeas Corpus? Odd.
by Flint on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 02:44:31 PM PDT
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This will be on the recommended list right?
I kinda thought it would be there by now.
I Have Come To The Conclusion That Politics Are Too Serious A Matter To Be Left To The Politicians... Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970)
by 59stevenm on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 03:33:28 PM PDT
I think I'll repost it in the morning with the title, "That Damn Kid Deserved to be Tasered!"
And then pitch that the kid won't get his day in court if Habeas Corpus should be allowed to remain defunct!
I'm hoping that Countdown will put a spot light on it but KO is in the hospital... no telling.
Like I said up stream... I don't know if every body knows about this or they simply don't understand it and what it means for their constitutional rights.
PS. Yes that 13 year old super model is too young... anyone seen the runaway bride lately? Oh yes... OJ... now there is a complete waste of time!
by Flint on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 04:18:35 PM PDT
That is an attention getting title!
52 are on board now
by 59stevenm on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 04:28:44 PM PDT
By the time I got the darn Whip Count image embedded, your diary was up as well. If you are going to re-post in the morning, I won't bother. Perhaps we can get it on the rec list. I included a list of the Yea's and Nay's. (I did a link back to your diary one other.)
I didn't view the debate today. Are we sure the vote will be Wednesday?
Link to Become a Citizen Whip - Restore Habeas Corpus by greenchiledem.
Jared Polis for CO-02
by greenchiledem on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 09:50:26 PM PDT
Please don't let that stop you from writing your own diary. Mine was just an FYI piece others are precedent oriented.
Should you post I will put a link in mine to yours and urge people to recommend it as well. The issue is getting lost under the MSM weight on OJ and the Tasered kid story.
I didn't hear one single report today on any of the media outlets and I find that appalling, the same thing happened when the Unpatriotic Act was going up for renewal and no one reacted. Now everyone bitches about it, but where were they when it counted?
I had a friend in the 60's who put a sign in his car window, "America... you're going to get what's coming to you."
He was disgusted with the American people that they could let the crap go on in government and sometimes I wonder if he wasn't right. I think I would reword his sign though, "America... you are going to get the government you deserve."
by Flint on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 11:40:08 PM PDT
The Senate cosponsor list (30 so far) includes him, so I'd assume that's basically a public commitment to vote for the bill. Lincoln's not listed as a cosponsor, but good to hear that she's probably going to vote in favor.
"See a world of tanks, ruled by a world of banks." —Sol Invictus
by Delirium on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 02:54:11 PM PDT
Lautenberg and Menendez are both on that list of co-sponsors so I think I'll call some Red Staters offices.
Even Arlen "The Weasel" Spector helped draft this Act and I'm hoping that some of the Repug "Libertarian" faction will sign on to it as well.
by Flint on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 03:00:39 PM PDT
wide narrow
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