As everyone has seen from the wonderful front pagers the senate is finally acting to correct one of the most horrible and ridiculous actions of the last congress. But there is much more to be done. On June 26th the ACLU, Amnesty international and host of other affiliated groups are rallying in Washington and also coordinating a lobbying day for the congress critters to meet their constituents. The ACLU is providing transportation for some states and hotel rooms. But it is on a first come first serve basis and those spots are disappearing fast. Go to www.juneaction.org and sign up for the march and sign the petition. For South Carolinians the ACLU is providing a bus in Florence at the civic center. Now, the current bus is full but I have been told that if we can get another thirty or so people to sign up to go they will generate a new bus.
Now many of you might not know me since I don’t post often but I now work for the South Carolina ACLU. We are in the process of organizing a whole mess of other people in South Carolina to get on buses and convince our representatives to vote correctly on this issue. Now being in South Carolina the chance that Lindsey Graham or Jim DeMint is going to actually vote in anyway to restore habeas corpus is almost a moot point. But we can lobby our representatives and tell them that there are many South Carolinians who believe that we as Americans and human beings have fundamental rights. They can talk about freedom all they want but if they have voted to allow the government to take people off the street and tell no one else why, they have effectively neutered every other right. We must take a stand.