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Our message is simple: No
Immunity for Lawbreaking Companies.
Here are the groups and people joining together to jump start this action.
But we need you to sign on and
join us.
American Civil Liberties Union
ColorofChange.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Moveon.org Political Action
Working Assets Wireless
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake
Duncan Black, Atrios
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, DailyKos
Christy Hardin-Smith, Firedoglake
Glenn Greenwald, Salon
Matt Stoller, OpenLeft
Taylor Marsh, TaylorMarsh.com
John Aravosis, Americablog
Chris Bowers, OpenLeft
Digby, Hullaballo
John Amato, Crooks and Liars
Howie Klein, DownWithTyranny
From the text of our
letter.
Providing amnesty to lawbreaking corporations is a complete assault on the
rule of law and on the basic fairness of our political system. When ordinary
American citizens are accused of breaking the law, they are forced to go to
court and, if the accusations are proven, they suffer the consequences. If
the telecoms really did nothing wrong, they should prove that in court, like
all Americans must do.Congress has faced up to this before. In 1965, some of our nation’s largest
banks were found by courts to have broken our anti- trust laws and also wanted
amnesty from Congress for what they did. Senator Robert F. Kennedy spoke out
forcefully against this. As The New York Times reported:He objected to the basic philosophy of retroactive immunization which,
he said, might logically be applied to ‘murder or any other crime.’The rule of law is the basic guarantee in our society that all Americans
are treated equally. Amnesty for big business is an assault on that principle.
To grant retroactive amnesty would be to announce that our wealthiest corporations
are free to break the laws we pass, and amnesty would be yet another huge
step in eroding our core political principles.
Please join us.
Howie
has a terrific post up on this, as does Jane
and Stoller. Atrios
is
in, too, among others.
Then call Harry Reid and let him know how you feel: 202-224-3542. We need a
lot of calls to go to Senator Reid, so share the number with friends.
CALL HARRY REID: 202-224-3542
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