Friday, September 29, 2006
Radnofsky Takes On Kay's Pro-Tyranny Votes
Via Radnofsky campaign emails*, we already have information on where she stands on Bush's pro-torture, pro-tyranny legislation that Sen. Hutchison rubber stamped this week. And it's good news.
On coerced confessions, torture, and perjury:
On Habeas Corpus:
* The Radnofsky campaign emails weren't on the campaign's news page as of this writing, but should be there tomorrow.
In an excellent essay, Beltway Democrats are seriously flawed, but the election is still critically important, Glenn Greenwald very clearly argues the importance of this election, despite the shortcomings of incumbent Democrats. Our own Kay Bailey Hutchison is among those of whom he said it "was like watching mindless zombies obediently marching wherever they were told to march," as they voted yesterday.
Now is the time. Do something. Donate your time, your bumper, your yardsign space and some much-needed cash to Barbara Ann Radnofsky. Write letters to the editor about this. Texans don't support torture or the suspension of Constitutional protections any more than any other Americans do. Make sure they know Kay's and Barbara Ann's opposite positions on these crucial issues. Do something!
On coerced confessions, torture, and perjury:
“The Senate majority and my opponent wrongly and massively changed American history by permitting coerced confessions, torture, and convictions based on such testimony. My opponent’s embrace of perjury as a ‘technicality’ was a predictor that she would vote to further damage the stature and reputation of the United States of America.”
“We must protect our troops who could become POWs, subject to torture tactics embraced by my opponent. She has rubberstamped dangerous administration policies 95.6% of the time. Her statements and her vote yesterday threaten every Texan, every American, and our values.”
“Ordinary men and women, like my father and the fellow soldiers who saved his life as a POW, also saved the world for democracy in World War II. Massive wrongdoing and human experimentation and torture were exposed, and the world condemned and rejected the wrongdoing. Everyone who values the lives of our service men and women and the democracy in which we live should reject perjury, coerced confessions, and torture.”
On Habeas Corpus:
"The Supreme Court will rule on the September 28th unconstitutional attack by my opponent and the Senate majority, denying the right of habeas corpus to military detainees. In the meantime, the United States' reputation and the lives of our service personnel and our everyday rights remain threatened. We must protect Americans, including those abroad who could be kidnapped, wrongly accused, imprisoned, held forever and denied the right to know the charges against them. We would not tolerate those kinds of abuses by any foreign hand. We cannot tolerate the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by the United States."
* The Radnofsky campaign emails weren't on the campaign's news page as of this writing, but should be there tomorrow.
In an excellent essay, Beltway Democrats are seriously flawed, but the election is still critically important, Glenn Greenwald very clearly argues the importance of this election, despite the shortcomings of incumbent Democrats. Our own Kay Bailey Hutchison is among those of whom he said it "was like watching mindless zombies obediently marching wherever they were told to march," as they voted yesterday.
We are a country ruled by a President who has seized the power to break the law in multiple ways while virtually nothing is done about it. Yesterday, we formally vested the power in the President to abduct people and put them in prisons for life without so much as charging them with any crime and by expressly proclaiming that they have no right to access any court or tribunal to prove their innocence. We have started one war against a country that did not attack us and, in doing so, created havoc and danger -- both to ourselves and the world -- that is truly difficult to quantify. And we are almost certainly going to start one more war just like it (at least), that is far more dangerous still, if the President's Congressional servants maintain their control.
Now is the time. Do something. Donate your time, your bumper, your yardsign space and some much-needed cash to Barbara Ann Radnofsky. Write letters to the editor about this. Texans don't support torture or the suspension of Constitutional protections any more than any other Americans do. Make sure they know Kay's and Barbara Ann's opposite positions on these crucial issues. Do something!
