We Have Two Days!

WE HAVE TWO DAYS!

Yesterday. when I said we have five days, I was wrong. We have two days to change their minds. The vote is on Tuesday at 10am. If you would be so kind, please recommend this diary, so we can get the word out and stop this nomination.

If he passes SJC, I am committed to going to Washington to lobby the whole Senate to stop this nomination.

The Senate Judiciary Committee votes in 2 days on Michael Mukasay’s nomination as Attorney General. Senators Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein have said that they will vote to confirm him.

We have 2 days to change their minds.

It’s not over until that vote is held.

Why does it matter so much to me?

My husband, Danny Lee Stecher, was a Vietnam vet and POW, who was tortured by his North Vietnamese captors. He suffered from his injuries for over thirty years, until his fatal heart attack two years ago.

When Dan got back, he had to have his toenails removed three times, because of the bamboo infection caused when they inflicted pain to get the information they wanted. He never got a full night’s sleep. His screams still haunt my nights. There was never enough food in the house to fill the hole left by the deprivation he had suffered.

When I read about what is happening with the detainees in Gitmo and the dark sites, all I can picture is my beloved Dan lying bruised and beaten and bloody, incoherent from exhaustion and starved from lack of sleep, with no ability to tell his family and his country that he was even alive, and no one knowing where he was. It is happening to people in the name of EVERY American as we speak.

Now comes Michael Mukasey who says he is not familiar with the particular technique of waterboarding and therefore he can not make a determination as to whether it constitutes torture or not. Well, let me assure him and you that waterboarding is torture ... period.

Senators Schumer and Feinstein have said they will vote for Mukasey, We have five days to change their minds. You may say it’s a fool’s errand, but for Dan I must. I must speak out until there is no longer breath in my body.

Torture is not what Dan fought for; it’s not what Dan gave his physical health for; it’s not what Dan gave his mental health for.

Give Dan the legacy he deserves and help stop torture as the law, policy and practice of the United States.

What will YOU do to help stop torture?

EVERY American needs to stand up and say:
   NOT IN MY NAME!
   NEVER IN MY NAME!

EVERY American needs to contact Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Diane Feinstein and tell them to vote this nomination down.

We have two days.

What will YOU DO to help stop torture?

      For Dan,
      Heather

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To Contact Senator Charles Schumer

:  

(ed. Best not to send surface letter because of delays due to security)

   

Washington, DC

313 Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
TDD: 202-224-0420

New York City

757 Third Avenue
Suite 17-02
New York, NY 10017
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
TDD: 212-486-7803
 

Albany

Leo O'Brien Building, Room 420
Albany, NY 12207
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Buffalo

130 South Elmwood Avenue #660
Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
 

Binghamton

15 Henry Street, Room M103
Binghamton, NY 13901
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
 Hudson Valley
One Park Place, Suite 100
Peekskill, NY 10566
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
 

Long Island

145 Pine Lawn Road #300
Melville, NY 11747
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
 Rochester
100 State Street, Room 3040
Rochester, NY 14614
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
 

Syracuse

100 South Clinton Street, Room 841
Syracuse, NY 13261-7318
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
 

 

 

To Contact Senator Dianne Feinstein:

(ed. Best not to send surface mail because of delays due to security)

Washington, DC

Senator Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
TTY/TDD: [phone]

San Francisco

One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Los Angeles

11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

San Diego

750 B Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]  

Fresno

2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4290
Fresno, CA 93721
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]