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Tell Harry Reid: No Retroactive Immunity! |
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With Chris Dodd promising to filibuster any FISA bill with retroactive immunity in it, it's time to tell Harry Reid to oppose immunity as well. A large group of bloggers and activist have written an open letter to Reid, telling him:
Providing amnesty to lawbreaking corporations is a complete assault on the rule of law and on the basic fairness of our political system. When ordinary American citizens are accused of breaking the law, they are forced to go to court and, if the accusations are proven, they suffer the consequences. If the telecoms really did nothing wrong, they should prove that in court, like all Americans must do.
The original signers of this letter are:
American Civil Liberties Union
ColorOfChange.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Moveon.org Political Action
Working Assets Wireless
Glenn Greenwald, Salon
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Dailykos
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake
Matt Stoller, OpenLeft
Digby, Hullabaloo
Duncan Black, Atrios
John Aravosis, Americablog
Chris Bowers, OpenLeft
John Amato, Crooks and Liars
Howie Klein, DownWithTyranny
Digby, Hullabaloo
You can sign this letter too, and it will be delivered directly to Reid in Washington. To sign, simply go to www.noretroactiveimmunity.com
Please join us in this effort. (And while you're at it, call Reid's office too at 202-224-3542)
Other Thoughts:
Jane at Firedoglake has more information
Howie at DownWithTyranny has some great framing
Matt Stoller at Open Left has some history and a hilarious Bush video blog
Michael Kieschnick at Working Assets calls out business friendly Democrats
mcjoan at DailyKos has the full letter text
The ACLU has released this action to the press
Rebecca Carr at Cox covers this for the mainstream media
Out of the Mountains, Greg Prince, and Atrios push this as well
