I want to thank everyone for taking the time today to contact their senators and members of congress. All day long as the gitmo attorneys were heading from congressional office to office we heard that the congressional members themselves were hearing from record numbers of their constituents and that they were being told the message that guantanamo must be closed and habeas corpus must be restored. Many senators and congressional representatives were surprised at the numbers of constituents they were hearing from. It is to each of you that we (the attorneys and the detainees) owe both our thanks and our support. Someone told me (or I read) that when congress receives a call (or two) they ignore it... when they receive 100 calls they start to think and after 100 calls they know they better act.. I hope that our members of congress received more than 100 calls today and that they know now that it is time to act. It is only with the pressure from each of us that justice will prevail. Please keep up this battle. I assure you that we, the habeas counsel, will do our part.
Probably the most important book of 2014 as it gives a comprehensive look at the extent this country of mine has creeped into the bedrooms of all of us across the world-and the importance of hero EDWARD SNOWDEN- in risking his freedom to let all of us know. What we do with that knowledge will say alot about all of us...
If you have not read Ron's book then you do not have the whole story about what I have been doing to try to get my clients out ofGuantanamo. Ron kept up with my activities and even followed me around on occasion to get the full story... then he weaved my story in with the stories of other individuals who are concerned with the direction of the United States. I recommend the book to all of you out there who also care about the direction that the US has gone these past eight years and want to work to change things.
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I want to thank everyone for taking the time today to contact their senators and members of congress. All day long as the gitmo attorneys were heading from congressional office to office we heard that the congressional members themselves were hearing from record numbers of their constituents and that they were being told the message that guantanamo must be closed and habeas corpus must be restored. Many senators and congressional representatives were surprised at the numbers of constituents they were hearing from. It is to each of you that we (the attorneys and the detainees) owe both our thanks and our support.
Someone told me (or I read) that when congress receives a call (or two) they ignore it... when they receive 100 calls they start to think and after 100 calls they know they better act..
I hope that our members of congress received more than 100 calls today and that they know now that it is time to act.
It is only with the pressure from each of us that justice will prevail. Please keep up this battle. I assure you that we, the habeas counsel, will do our part.
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