Congress: Declare Your Independence From Bush

ACTFORCHANGE ACTIVISM UPDATE: June 30, 2006

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Can the President Choose Which Laws To Obey? Under a radical new theory of executive power, President Bush is openly breaking laws that he disagrees with. Congress must hold him accountable -- or they might as well just go home. Who Made Him King? In his New York Times bestselling book, blogger Glenn Greenwald gets to the roots of this unprecedented usurpation of power by the executive branch. How would a patriot act today?

Stop the President's Silent Vetoes

Under a radical new theory of presidential power, President Bush is openly claiming the right to disobey any laws he doesn't agree with -- and Congress is letting him get away with it. Presidential signing statements are nothing new -- but this President's open defiance of the law most certainly is.

Click here to tell your representative and senators that they MUST hold Bush accountable under the law.

Senator McCain's bill prohibiting torture by our armed forces? It's being ignored. Requirements that the Administration report to Congress about seizures of records from libraries and bookstores? Ignored. A law capping U.S. soldiers in Colombia at 800? They'll construe that law as 'advisory in nature,' thank you very much.

Tell Congress to investigate the President's lawbreaking, express their opposition publicly, hold oversight hearings, and use their unique standing as lawmakers to sue.

What Would a Patriot Do? Read this Book!

It's the stuff of spy novels. Major telecommunications companies feeding telephone records to the NSA. The president authorizing wiretaps without warrants. An administration hell-bent on starting a war at all costs.

But it's not fiction. It's Glenn Greenwald's book How Would A Patriot Act? rushed in to print by Working Assets Publishing. The book is one man's transformation from apolitical centrist to citizen activist in defense of our Constitution. This Independence Day, if you're concerned about the direction of this country, here's something you can do -- read this book. Click here to learn more and read an excerpt from the book.

"All thinking Americans must answer How Would a Patriot Act? ... and those who ignore what Greenwald has to say act at our collective peril."

-- John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel

Please forward this email to everyone you know -- friends, family, and colleagues -- who cares about preserving our constitutional system of democracy.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Will Easton
Manager, ActForChange.com
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