This evening, the Senate will begin voting on the National
Defense Authorization Act 2012 (NDAA). They will decide whether to make
permanent the indefinite detention of individuals, which may include
American citizens—without charge or trial. The Senate will also
vote to authorize mandatory military custody of individuals, including
legal US residents. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has made clear that
mandatory military custody limits US ability to fight terrorism.
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The Udall Amendment would strike these NDAA provisions.
The Senate will also decide whether we should roll back the
protections against torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment,
and allow interrogation techniques outside the Army Field Manual, which
should be the gold standard. General David Petraeus, current Director
of the CIA, believes such enhanced interrogation techniques are
ineffective and wrong; however,
the Ayotte Amendment would codify this roll-back and allow such techniques.
Please call your senators and tell them to stand up for due process and liberty for all. Please ask your senators to vote
FOR the Udall Amendment (A. No. 1107), which strikes down these disastrous detainee provisions, and
AGAINST
the Ayotte Amendment (A. No. 1068), which authorizes enhanced
interrogation techniques.
Physicians for Human Rights documented in the 2011 report,
Punishment Before Justice: Indefinite Detention in the US,
medical literature provides convincing evidence that the indeterminacy
of an indefinite detention creates a degree of uncertainty,
unpredictability, and uncontrollability that causes severe harms in
healthy individuals.
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You know, as long as Amnesty International has been around, as much as they have spoken out against torture, political imprisonment, and other such injustices around the world, somehow the news media never seems to think it worthy of covering them. I cannot recall the last time I saw anyone from A.I. being interviewed by mainstream media. I wonder why.
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