The Senate is likely to vote on John McCain’s anti-torture amendments tonight. U.S. residents, please call your Senators today and politely encourage them to vote Yes on Senator McCain’s anti-torture amendments, which would codify the existing guidelines and prohibiting cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
Human Rights First recommends the following talking points:
– I am calling to urge my Senator to vote YES on Sen. McCain’s amendments tonight.
– These amendments will ensure our troops will get the guidance they desperately need.
– The Senator has a moral and legal obligation to ban cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
– These amendments will draw a much-needed line between appropriate interrogation techniques and the horrible abuses I’ve read about in the papers.
Many thanks.
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Doug 10.05.05 at 3:56 pm
And at some point spare a thought for US citizens who live in Washington, DC and have neither Senators nor Representatives. If I ever get representation, I will petition with great vigor…
Cristobal Senior 10.05.05 at 5:18 pm
Excellent suggestion. Now le’s see all those “libertarians” launch a vigourous support for the anti-torture amandments.
Cristobal Senior
-keith in mtn. view 10.05.05 at 5:53 pm
As long as it continues to allow underwear on heads, frat-boy type pranks, and various degrees of subjectively perceived humiliation, I’m for it.
jet 10.05.05 at 7:23 pm
Anyone know if this is a sure thing or not?
Mike Russo 10.05.05 at 8:28 pm
Amendment passed 90-9!
AP atory
Clayton 10.05.05 at 8:34 pm
Keith,
In your fraternity, did they have Palestinian hangings?
Thomas Nephew 10.05.05 at 9:24 pm
Now le’s see all those “libertarians†launch a vigourous support for the anti-torture amandments.
I can’t say one way or the other about libertarians overall, but the ones I read most often — Jim Henley, Matt Welch — are quite clear about disdaining torture, apologies for it, and policies that lead to it. I know Jim Henley has specifically supported to past efforts on behalf of the McCain amendment — fwiw, “despite” not thinking all that highly of McCain.
Matt Weiner 10.05.05 at 11:05 pm
Voting Nay:
Allard (R-CO)
Bond (R-MO)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX, dammit)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-Evil Little Troll)
Stevens (R-AK)
Corzine (D-NJ) not voting.
Kenny Easwaran 10.05.05 at 11:56 pm
I sure hope Corzine had a good excuse – was he off campaigning for governor?
Thompsaj 10.06.05 at 1:44 am
Hooray for not torturing people!
Steve LaBonne 10.06.05 at 7:56 am
Still has to survive the conference committee (no such provisionm in the corresponding House spending bill) which will be heavily influenced on the Senate side by some of the “dirty nine”, and the Shrub veto which will will no doubt be upheld by the vote-switches of a sufficient number of Republican wusses. So don’t start celebrating yet.
fyreflye 10.06.05 at 9:07 am
Thanks to Matt Weiner for listing the Nays, something neither the online NY Times nor the Washington Post could bother to do.
Uncle Kvetch 10.06.05 at 9:55 am
So don’t start celebrating yet.
Indeed. Today’s Times notes that it faces an uphill climb once it gets to the House. Incredibly enough.
rcriii 10.06.05 at 5:11 pm
I did not see this until today (Thursday, after the vote). But I sent a letter to both of my Senators (Obama and Durbin) thanking them for their support of this amendment. I copied the letter to my representative (Biggert, R), for what it is worth.
-keith in mtn. view 10.06.05 at 6:54 pm
My fraternity was called Lambda Sigma Delta, a few people jumped out windows. That certainly harshed their mellow.
Randy Paul 10.08.05 at 4:37 pm
Still hung up on your Greek experiences, Keith?
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