Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times / Senators Dianne Feinstein, Russell D. Feingold and Charles E. Schumer after the vote on Tuesday. In the picture, Senator Feingold looks like he is ready to lose his lunch. I called his office to tell his staff that I am about to lose my lunch also. This photo was taken after the Mukasey vote. I called Schumer’s office too – I heard on Democracy Now today that Senator Schumer voted for Mukasey for Attorney General because if he didn’t bush would appoint someone worse. I called to tell his staff member that if Schumer won’t do what is right because he is afraid someone else will do something wrong, then he is just a bed-wetter and he needs to get a different job. His staffer said that voting against Mukasey would be a “symbolic gesture”. I called Senator Feinstein’s office today also, and let them know that I do not agree with her capitulation to torture.
So, we continue down the path to torture, which we started on long ago.
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When I see the photos or videos of protestors getting arrested in DC, I think ‘THE WRONG DAMN PEOPLE ARE GETTING ARRESTED’. I called Schumer’s office again and told the staffer it is “NEVER, EVER, A SYMBOLIC GESTURE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.” I repeated that three times, and then asked if he understood it. He said he did. I am not sure that he was the same person I talked to originally, but I told him what I had heard before.
I am sickened.
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