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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: Ongoing...
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]

We took action on “One Million Terrorists and Counting?”!

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9:13 am PDT, Sep 6, Dr. Theresa M. Kelly, South Carolina

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7:30 am PDT, Sep 6, John Donaldson,ll, West Virginia

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11:26 am PDT, Sep 5, Name not displayed, Missouri

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6:31 am PDT, Sep 5, Eric Lehman, New York

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9:39 pm PDT, Sep 4, Andrea Ayala, Texas

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12:10 pm PDT, Sep 4, Jessica Miller, Florida

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9:25 am PDT, Sep 4, Jaime Cammarata, RD, Pennsylvania

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6:14 am PDT, Sep 4, Gwen Tharp, Oregon

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4:07 am PDT, Sep 4, Russell Hartsaw, California

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12:30 am PDT, Sep 4, Carley B., New York

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9:06 pm PDT, Sep 3, Sandra Dutcher, Rhode Island

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8:24 pm PDT, Sep 3, Advo Schaefer, Arizona

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5:10 pm PDT, Sep 3, Robin Davis, Pennsylvania

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4:21 pm PDT, Sep 3, Gene Labovitz, California

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10:32 am PDT, Sep 3, Marg Rich, Minnesota

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5:12 pm PDT, Sep 2, Kate Gibbs, Illinois

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12:31 pm PDT, Sep 2, Name not displayed, Florida
I am an American citizen and I demand that Congress pass legislation to make the US government's terroist watch list available to the public. Also, I believe the Congress should fight for more oversight and control on who is selected to be put on this list. Law abiding US citizens are being persecuted without any means of defending themselves against this witch hunt. Darren Plant City, FL

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9:54 am PDT, Sep 2, Lewis Moyse, Louisiana

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12:43 am PDT, Sep 2, Jeramie Dreyfuss, Idaho

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8:42 pm PDT, Sep 1, Rachel Hinton, New York

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11:02 am PDT, Sep 1, Karen Campbell, California

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8:19 am PDT, Sep 1, Charles Hale, California

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5:50 pm PDT, Aug 30, Jazz Jess, Washington

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12:47 pm PDT, Aug 30, Wanda Perry, Wyoming

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3:57 am PDT, Aug 30, Karen Iverson, Georgia

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9:48 pm PDT, Aug 29, Barbara McGrane, Maryland

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4:04 pm PDT, Aug 29, Claire Chambers, California

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3:12 pm PDT, Aug 29, Rita Ferreira, California

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8:33 am PDT, Aug 29, Matt Williams, Illinois

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9:12 pm PDT, Aug 28, Candidate Nadia Sindi, Oregon
-- Salaam. nadia I'm running as a write in for Lane County Commissioner: Because I was cheated in the primary. My name was not in the ballots!?! it happened under the watch of "Mayor for all" & the "progressive" elected officials. I'll appreciate your help, financial support, endorsement, VOTES. www.nadiasindi.110mb.com http://nadiasindi.blogspot.com/ I am the Oregon Representative for: www.StudentLoanJustice.Org We will forget and forgive any judgment error that you make, but integrity mistakes are forever. -- David Cottrell

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7:35 pm PDT, Aug 28, Jayne Riley, United Kingdom
It sounds like America's gone as barmy as it did in the Communist Witch Hunts. You are such a hysterical people. Is this another one of Bush's Bloomers? What a disaster area of a president. America's presidents are the laughing stock of the world, and I agree, after Blair, looks like we're following suit!

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2:49 pm PDT, Aug 28, Ruth Morgan, Oregon

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10:49 am PDT, Aug 28, Deborah Greymoon, Colorado

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10:08 pm PDT, Aug 27, Karla Devine, California

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8:02 pm PDT, Aug 27, Yvonne Davidson, Illinois

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7:47 pm PDT, Aug 27, Melissa Ortega, California

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11:14 am PDT, Aug 27, Ashley Scott, North Carolina

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10:08 am PDT, Aug 27, Kelly Kemp, California

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4:06 am PDT, Aug 27, MARK SALAMON, Massachusetts

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11:34 am PDT, Aug 26, JoAnne Paxson, Colorado

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8:31 am PDT, Aug 26, Jeremy T., Texas

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5:12 am PDT, Aug 26, Shawnamarie Murray MD, New Hampshire

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6:01 pm PDT, Aug 25, R Chris LaReau, Georgia
This is crazy. Secret lists? United States of America? Just who the heck all is on this list? It seems it could be any one of us.

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5:17 pm PDT, Aug 25, Michelle Brown, Virginia

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4:08 pm PDT, Aug 25, Matthew Aarsvold, California

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11:39 am PDT, Aug 25, Name not displayed, Tennessee

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11:12 am PDT, Aug 25, Colleen McGlone, Florida

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9:02 am PDT, Aug 24, Hank Mirsky, New Mexico

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6:36 pm PDT, Aug 23, David Douthat, California

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2:49 pm PDT, Aug 23, Kristie Downer, Tennessee

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2:54 pm PDT, Aug 22, Lyn Zerin, Florida

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2:16 pm PDT, Aug 22, Leanne Burns, California

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11:40 am PDT, Aug 22, Patricia Kummer, Illinois

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