On the Third Day of Christmas…

On the third day of Christmas
The Bluenecks gave to me
An anti-torture law…

A budget with a heart
And a rebuilt New Orleans

Today America began to look like America again. Bush finially agreed to Sen John Feingold’s amendment preventing torture by the CIA. After months of bad press over abuse at Abu Ghraib, interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, and reports of secret CIA prisons abroad, Vietnam POW John McCain's amendment will keep us from sinking to the level of the terrorists. The bill is expected to pass before Congress adjourns.

McCain’s proposal states, “No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the [U.S.] government,  regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject  to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”

What can Bluenecks do?
If your Senator is not on the list of shame below, they are among the huge majority supporting this amendment. Send them a quick word of thanks.

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska
Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas
Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi
Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma
Senator Chris Bond of Missouri
Senator John Cornyn of Texas
Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado

Knoxville Update Cindy Kendrick is organizing an antiwar, antitorture demonstration on Sunday, Jan. 8, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., at the corner of Kingston Pike and Concord Street in Knoxville. Bring signs!