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One Million Terrorists and Counting?

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Care2

The Bush administration's terrorist watch list has hit one million names. Yours may very well be one of them.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been tracking the size of this database, and estimates our terrorist watch-list is now one million strong.

Just who is in the one million terrorists club? Nelson Mandela was, until Congress passed special legislation just a few weeks ago to get him off the list. Senator Ted Kennedy was once on the list. Representative John Lewis (D-GA) is on the list, along with plenty of other people named John Lewis. Perhaps a better question to ask is, who ISN'T on this list?

National security is important, but a bloated and ineffective "terrorist" dragnet does nothing to make us safer and instead tramples our constitutional rights and freedoms.

Congress needs to step in and implement controls over this watch list to make it a truly effective tool in the fight against terrorism instead of one more tool in the Bush administration's apparent quest to undermine the Constitution. Tell your Senators and Representative to stand up for your rights and clamp down on this ever-increasing secretive watch-list!

deadline: 7-17-2009
goal: 10,000

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Dear Representative and Senators:

I am dismayed to learn that our terrorist watch list is estimated to now contain one million names.

According to the Terrorist Screening Center's online FAQ, "Per HSPD-6, only individuals who are known or appropriately suspected to be or have been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism are included in the TSDB."

I have a hard time believing that all of the names on this list meet this criteria, especially since people such as Nelson Mandela, Senator Ted Kennedy and Representative John Lewis have all been caught up in this dragnet. Who knows how many other innocent American citizens are being watched?

Congress must implement controls over this program to protect American citizens from being unlawfully watched under this program. If our government is going to maintain such a database, we need to have protections and accountability to ensure that innocent people caught on this list have the right to due process of law; can find out if they are on the list; and can see and challenge the data used to put them on the list.

Please work with your colleagues in Congress to address the critical need for oversight of this terrorist watchlist immediately.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

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Dear Representative and Senators: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been tracking the size of this database, and estimates our terrorist watch-list is now one million strong. Is this number enough? Sincerely, Maria Paula

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