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Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Sat Nov 12, 2005 at 03:36:51 PM EST
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Hilary at Obsidian Wings debunks Sen. Lindsay Graham's claims about detainee lawsuits.

Also, there is now at least one online campaign to support the Bingaman Amendment to defeat the Graham amendment and save habeas corpus for detainees. Please visit One Million Phone March to Save Habeas:

With virtually no advance notice the Republican majority in the Senate approved a last minute amendment to the Defense Authorization Act to deny U.S. courts jurisdiction to examine the legality of detainee detention in Guantanamo and elsewhere. They did this in defiance of the not yet completely packed Supreme Court (another reason to reject Alito), whose authority they would annul.

This is all despite the well-known FACT that many scooped up into these hell holes of torture are not terrorists at all, some even having been sold for bounty. Senator Bingaman immediately responded with a proposed corrective amendment (S.AMDT.2517) to restore jurisdiction.

Is our government telling us that there is no possible way any of those people can be convicted of a crime, by even an American jury, if they were to have a fair trial? We also know that our own military attorneys were fired for protesting because the tribunals already established were such miscarriages of justice.

Tell your Senators to SUPPORT Bingaman Amendment 2517! You can call your members of Congress right now on one of these toll-free numbers, 888-818-6641 or 888-355-3588. There are operators on duty 24 hours a day. Just ask to be connected to your senators and they'll put you through. If you don't know who they all are, or want all their direct phone and fax numbers, just submit the simple form on the right, to get all their numbers right

Background here and here.

And remember, first it's no habeas for them, then it's no habeas for us.

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    Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas | 8 comments (8 topical)
    Re: Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:02 PM EST
    First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew...
    Re: Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:02 PM EST
    off topic comment with url not in html format deleted.

    Re: Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:02 PM EST
    Perhaps those AWOL senators can find it in their hearts to actually be present this time around and VOTE! And Lieberman would do well to find himself a new party, the schmuck that he is.

    Re: Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas (none / 0) (#4)
    by rilkefan on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:03 PM EST
    She blogs under "hilzoy".

    Re: Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas (none / 0) (#5)
    by rilkefan on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:03 PM EST
    Also, katherine is posting on these issues along with hilzoy at Obsidian Wings.

    Re: Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas (none / 0) (#6)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:04 PM EST
    Abu Ali's shocking treatment is the first that tests the notion that Americans can be imprisoned abroad by their government, interrogated by foreign and domestic law enforcement, and be denied all rights as coercive confessions are obtained to be used against them in a U.S. court.
    Elaine Cassel writes about America, land of the free.... free to devise ways to circumvent constitutional and international laws. link

    Re: Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:04 PM EST
    This has been attributed to Eliot: If you do evil to combat evil, you become evil. Simple. Inescapable.

    Re: Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas (none / 0) (#8)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:04 PM EST
    Without habeas, we are a terrorist state. A Kafka-esque terrorist state.

    Support the Bingaman Amendment and Save Habeas | 8 comments (8 topical)