ACLU Special Alert

From an email from the ACLU:

CALL WHILE IT COUNTS: TELL CONGRESS NOT TO RUBBERSTAMP BUSH ABUSES

This is a make or break week for civil liberties.  With mid-term elections looming, some leaders in Congress who appeared poised to stand up to the Bush Administration's abuse of power have made "compromises" that sell out fundamental civil liberties to political expediency.  

As a result, there are votes due this week on un-American legislation to expand the government's power to spy on innocent citizens and to strip the most basic due process protections from U.S. detainees.  

The email from the ACLU continues:

The proposals being voted on this week by your members of Congress are truly frightening.  If these bills pass, we could see a nightmare "Big Brother" bill that combines a rubber stamp for warrantless domestic spying on phone calls and emails with new torture and detention tactics that would gut the Geveva Conventions by diluting the War Crimes Act, taking away checks on the president's power and putting our great nation on the level of some of the world's most repressive regimes.

...Thousands and thousands of liberty-loving people across America are calling Congress today--because they know the stakes couldn't be higher.  

There is contact information for Congress at:
http://contactcongress.blogspot.com/

Tell your Senators that you're against bills for warrantless wiretapping and weakening enforcement of the Geneva Conventions.