Moon
10-20-2006, 01:14 PM
I was very disturbed to hear about the Military Commissions Act (the one that makes habeas corpus discretionary), especially since
i don't recall hearing of it until after it had passed. How did i miss this? I subscribe to CLG News, NIONSC and other politically progressive listserves. Maybe it was the crying "Wolf!" phenomenon; nearly every "action alert" claims to be of breathtaking importance.
I get so many that i just click each one, add a sentence or two to the letter that's already written and click "Send."
I wish very much that i had realized something so dire was in the works. I'd have pulled out all the stops, emailed everyone in my address book to contact their members of Congress and sent paper letters to my own US legislators. Did anyone reading this see this coming? Do you know of a listserve that reserves get-on-this-now for real crises like this?
i don't recall hearing of it until after it had passed. How did i miss this? I subscribe to CLG News, NIONSC and other politically progressive listserves. Maybe it was the crying "Wolf!" phenomenon; nearly every "action alert" claims to be of breathtaking importance.
I get so many that i just click each one, add a sentence or two to the letter that's already written and click "Send."
I wish very much that i had realized something so dire was in the works. I'd have pulled out all the stops, emailed everyone in my address book to contact their members of Congress and sent paper letters to my own US legislators. Did anyone reading this see this coming? Do you know of a listserve that reserves get-on-this-now for real crises like this?