URGENT: Less than 24 hours before a huge vote

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From: "Chris Anders, ACLU" <aclu@aclu.org>
Date: May 17, 2012 5:45 PM
Subject: URGENT: Less than 24 hours before a huge vote
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>

Stop indefinite military detention in America. Tell your member of Congress to support the Smith-Amash amendment. Dear Daniel, Today, we have a chance to stop a serious wrong — we can pass a new law explicitly banning indefinite detention on U.S. soil. No one anywhere in the world should be picked up by the military far from a battlefield and locked away without charge or trial. We may not be able to fix the problem for the whole world right now. But, in the next 24 hours, we can make it clear that the United States is off-limits to indefinite military detention. Ask your member of Congress to prohibit indefinite military detention in the U.S. and support the Smith-Amash amendment to the NDAA. A bipartisan group of House members is putting forward the Smith-Amash amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It makes clear that no U.S. president has the power to use the military to imprison people here in the U.S. without charge or trial and hold them indefinitely. Indefinite military detention in the U.S. is unconstitutional and illegal and we don't believe last year's NDAA allows it — but some top senators continue to think it is perfectly okay — and permitted by the NDAA. The vote could come at any moment. We need to reach members of Congress right now. Congress is about to bring this year's NDAA to the House floor. Prohibit indefinite military detention in America. Tell your member of Congress to support the Smith-Amash amendment. Your member of Congress needs to know that indefinite military detention in this country is wrong and that you won't stand for it. Thanks for all you do, Chris Anders Senior Legislative Counsel P.S. The vote could happen any moment now, so we urgently need you to step forward right now and help ban indefinite military detention here in America. Contact your member of Congress today and tell them to support the Smith-Amash amendment and prohibit indefinite military detention. Spread the Word Help by sharing this campaign with friends.    © ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004 DO NOT FORWARD: Your information is linked to this email.

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