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Tell Congress: My America Doesn't Torture

The shameful experiences of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and extraordinary renditions have placed Bush-era America next to the Nazi Gestapo, Soviet gulags, and Khmer Rouge as the worst torturers of the last hundred years.

It's time to take a stand against something so plainly and obviously evil. We must ensure that no Administration – present or future – allow torture to disgrace us again. Urge your representative to co-sponsor and promote the American Anti-Torture Act today!

May 26, 2013

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Dear Representative,

I support the passage of the American Anti-Torture Act (H.R. 4114) and strongly urge you to not only co-sponsor this legislation but to promote it and recruit more co-sponsors.

We must ensure that no Administration, present or future, allow torture to disgrace us again.

The use of torture presents one of the gravest violations of human rights and American ideals we have ever endured.  All forms of torture, including waterboarding and extraordinary renditions, are abhorrent and have no place in the United States.

Furthermore, torture is not effective as an interrogation technique, and its use makes us less safe by promoting a negative image of the U.S. in the world abroad.

Since the War on Terror began in 2001, detainees in the "care" of American forces have been urinated on, doused with phosphoric acid, sodomized with batons, had their lungs forcibly filled with water, shipped abroad to even more brutal regimes, and so much worse.

That's not my America.

Please do the right thing.  Beyond the moral imperative to act, I am your constituent, and I am stating firmly today: My America doesn't torture!

Thank you for taking a stand on this important issue.

Sincerely,

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