tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16384891.post504960067959074057..comments2024-03-11T17:05:59.988-07:00Comments on Cedric's Big Mix: Not feeling the lovecedricsbigmixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017453668940121403noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16384891.post-55712661520690061712007-12-11T14:17:00.000-08:002007-12-11T14:17:00.000-08:00CALL TO ACTION!FROM THE FREE BILAL COMMITTEESubjec...CALL TO ACTION!<BR/><BR/>FROM THE FREE BILAL COMMITTEE<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Subject: Bilal: A Call to Action<BR/><BR/>Date: December 7, 2007 4:15:42 PM MST (CA)<BR/><BR/>Reply-To: info@freebilal.org<BR/><BR/>````````````````````````<BR/><BR/>Dear Colleagues,<BR/><BR/>Help free Bilal Hussein!<BR/><BR/>Take some time this weekend, on the eve of Bilal’s first hearing on Dec. 9, to e-mail members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, see below the list (courtesy of the Digital Journalist editorial, http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0711/help-free-bilal-hussein.html)<BR/><BR/>Remember: after 20 months of detention without charges, Bilal will face a hearing this Sunday and an Iraqi judge will decide, if any, what charges should be brought against him. If charged with being a terrorist, Bilal is facing a penalty of life in prison or even death sentence.<BR/><BR/>Read about the poor state of the Iraqi justice system http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Dec06/0,4670,IraqDetaineeJustice,00.html<BR/><BR/>Feel free to copy/paste the petition from the Free Bilal site, http://www.freebilal.org/english.htm, for sending the emails.<BR/><BR/>It takes a minute, it helps a lot.<BR/><BR/>Free Bilal Committee www.freebilal.org<BR/><BR/>``````````````````````````````<BR/><BR/>E-mail addresses for members of the Senate Armed Services Committee<BR/><BR/>MAJORITY MEMBERS (Democrats),<BR/><BR/>U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services:<BR/><BR/>Carl Levin (D-MI) [Chair] http://levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm<BR/><BR/>Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) http://kennedy.senate.gov/senator/contact.cfm<BR/><BR/>Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html<BR/><BR/>Joseph I. Lieberman (ID-CT) http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm?regarding=issue<BR/><BR/>Jack Reed (D-RI) http://reed.senate.gov/contact/contact-share.cfm<BR/><BR/>Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) http://akaka.senate.gov/email.cfm<BR/><BR/>Bill Nelson (D-FL) http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm<BR/><BR/>Ben Nelson (D-NE) http://bennelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm<BR/><BR/>Evan Bayh (D-IN) http://bayh.senate.gov/LegForm.htm<BR/><BR/>Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) http://clinton.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm<BR/><BR/>Mark Pryor (D-AR) http://pryor.senate.gov/contact/<BR/><BR/>James Webb (D-VA) http://webb.senate.gov/contact/<BR/><BR/>Claire McCaskill (D-MO) http://mccaskill.senate.gov/contact.cfm<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>MINORITY MEMBERS (Republicans),<BR/><BR/>U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services:<BR/><BR/>John McCain (R-AZ) [Ranking Member] http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm<BR/><BR/>John W. Warner (R-VA) http://warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm<BR/><BR/>James M. Inhofe (R-OK) http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm<BR/><BR/>Jeff Sessions (R-AL) http://sessions.senate.gov/email/contact.cfm<BR/><BR/>Susan Collins (R-ME) http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email&CFID=36598925&CFTOKEN=47842317<BR/><BR/>Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) http://lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.EmailSenatorGraham<BR/><BR/>Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) http://dole.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInformation.ContactForm<BR/><BR/>John Cornyn (R-TX) http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm<BR/><BR/>John R. Thune (R-SD) http://thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Email<BR/><BR/>Mel Martinez (R-FL) http://martinez.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInformation.ContactForm&CFID=36599439&CFTOKEN=75247170<BR/><BR/>Bob Corker (R-TN) http://corker.senate.gov/Contact/index.cfm<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>``````````````````````````````<BR/><BR/>Newsletter mailing list<BR/><BR/>Newsletter@freebilal.org<BR/><BR/>http://www.freebilal.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/newsletter<BR/><BR/><BR/>``````````````````````````````<BR/><BR/>SAMPLE LETTER<BR/><BR/>Bilal Hussein: Habeas Corpus and Due Process Denied<BR/><BR/>To the Honorable Senator __<BR/><BR/>Dear Member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee<BR/><BR/>Please help our colleague, Pulitzer Prize winning AP photojournalist Bilal Hussein, obtain habeas corpus and a fair, reasonable and timely Due Process. The U.S. Military will present official charges against him on Dec. 9 in an Iraqi court and they have refused to give Mr. hussein or his Defense timely notice of charges before this court date. This is denial of Habeas Corpus and Due Process and is against our Bill of Rights.<BR/><BR/>The US Military arrested Bilal on April of 2006, interrogated him in Abu Ghraib with no legal council present, and then held him in the Camp Crooper jail in Baghdad with no charges and without writ of habeas corpus for 20 months. Now our military is acting further in a non-Constitutional way in a foreign court and in, as of yet, a non-Democratic country with an overburdened and overcrowded court system. Also, since the Iraqi Court system is Shiite, we are very concerned for Bilal and that he receive fair treatment and a fair trial, since Bilal is Sunni.<BR/><BR/>Please assure me that this Iraqi photojournalist will obtain habeas corpus and/or due process immediately, be given the assurance of justice from a fair trial, and that if Bilal is ultimately found innocent he should be released and not be returned to the U.S. Military, as they have so stated, for continued and indefinite confinement.<BR/><BR/>If these basic human rights (habeas corpus and due process) cannot be assured Bilal, then please see to it that Bilal is safely released immediately.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your support, your service and your prompt attention to this important matter.<BR/><BR/>Respectfully,<BR/><BR/>__________________Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com