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Counter Terror Tuesdays
This is a work in progress, public brainstorming, begun on a listserve and continued here.
The President meets with some of his staff on what they call Terror Tuesdays to choose men, women, and children from a Kill List and order them killed.
The idea has arisen to create Counter-Terror Tuesdays on which we take mass nonviolent action to oppose this program of presidential murder.
We can take a moment each Tuesday to phone 202-456-1111 and/or write to the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500 to express our opposition.
One idea is that we should all ask to be added to the Kill List.
We can take a moment each Tuesday to tweet our opposition to @BarackObama with the hashtag #counterterrortuesdays. We could all do this at 12 noon ET and see if we start a trend.
We can also contact radio shows and journalists, especially the White House Press Corpse, every Tuesday.
Our allies abroad can take the same message to U.S. embassies.
We can also take our message to Congress. There are six Congressional committees that could do things like hold public hearings and issue subpoenas to release the drone strike memos and force Administration witnesses to testify: Senate and House Judiciary, Senate and House Intelligence, Senate and House Armed Services. Here they are:
Patrick J. Leahy
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Chuck Grassley Ranking Member, R-Iowa Biography |
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Orrin G. Hatch R-Utah Biography |
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Dick Durbin D-Illinois Biography |
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Amy Klobuchar D-Minnesota Biography |
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Jeff Flake R-Arizona Biography |
Mazie Hirono D-Hawaii Biography |
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Dianne Feinstein, California Chairman |
Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Vice Chairman |
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John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia |
Richard Burr, North Carolina |
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Ron Wyden, Oregon |
James E. Risch, Idaho |
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Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland |
Daniel Coats, Indiana |
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Mark Udall, Colorado |
Marco Rubio, Florida |
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Mark Warner, Virginia |
Susan Collins, Maine |
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Martin Heinrich, New Mexico |
Tom Coburn, Oklahoma |
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Angus King, Maine |
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Harry Reid, Nevada, Ex Officio | |||
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, Ex Officio | |||
Carl Levin, Michigan, Ex Officio | |||
James Inhofe, Oklahoma, Ex Officio |
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Levin, Carl (MI) , Chairman Reed, Jack (RI) Nelson, Bill (FL) McCaskill, Claire (MO) Udall, Mark (CO) Hagan, Kay R. (NC) Manchin, Joe (WV) Shaheen, Jeanne (NH) Gillibrand, Kirsten E. (NY) Blumenthal, Richard (CT) Donnelly, Joe (IN) Hirono, Mazie K. (HI) Kaine, Tim (VA) King, Angus S. (ME) |
Inhofe, James M. (OK), Ranking Member McCain, John (AZ) Sessions, Jeff (AL) Chambliss, Saxby (GA) Wicker, Roger F. (MS) Ayotte, Kelly (NH) Fischer, Deb (NE) Graham, Lindsey (SC) Vitter, David (LA) Blunt, Roy (MO) Lee, Mike (UT) Cruz, Ted (TX) |
Mike Rogers, Chairman
8th District of Michigan
Mac Thornberry
13th District of Texas
Jeff Miller
1st District of Florida
Mike Conaway
11th District of Texas
Peter King
3rd District of New York
Frank LoBiondo
2nd District of New Jersey
Devin Nunes
21st District of California
Lynn Westmoreland
3rd District of Georgia
Michele Bachmann
6th District of Minnesota
Thomas J Rooney
16th District of Florida
Joe Heck
3rd District of Nevada
Mike Pompeo
4th District of Kansas
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Ranking Member
2nd District of Maryland
Mike Thompson
1st District of California
Jan Schakowsky
9th District of Illinois
Jim Langevin
2nd District of Rhode Island
Adam Schiff
29th District of California
Luis Gutierrez
4th District of Illinois
Ed Pastor
7th District of Arizona
Jim Himes
4th District of Connecticut
Terri Sewell
7th District of Alabama
Republicans
- Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, Chairman, California Visit Site
- Mac Thornberry, Vice Chairman, Texas Visit Site
- Walter B. Jones, North Carolina Visit Site
- J. Randy Forbes, Virginia Visit Site
- Jeff Miller, Florida Visit Site
- Joe Wilson, South Carolina Visit Site
- Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey Visit Site
- Rob Bishop, Utah
- Michael Turner, Ohio Visit Site
- John Kline, Minnesota Visit Site
- Mike Rogers, Alabama Visit Site
- Trent Franks, Arizona Visit Site
- Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania Visit Site
- K. Michael Conaway, Texas Visit Site
- Doug Lamborn, Colorado Visit Site
- Rob Wittman, Virginia Visit Site
- Duncan Hunter, California Visit Site
- John C. Fleming, Louisiana Visit Site
- Mike Coffman, Colorado Visit Site
- Scott Rigell, Virginia Visit Site
- Chris Gibson, New York Visit Site
- Vicky Hartzler, Missouri Visit Site
- Joe Heck, Nevada Visit Site
- Jon Runyan , New Jersey Visit Site
- Austin Scott , Georgia Visit Site
- Steve Palazzo , Mississippi Visit Site
- Martha Roby , Alabama Visit Site
- Mo Brooks , Alabama Visit Site
- Rich Nugent, Florida
- Kristi Noem, South Dakota
- Paul Cook, California
- Jim Bridenstine, Oklahoma
- Brad Wenstrup, Ohio
- Jackie Walorski, Indiana
Democrats
- Adam Smith, Ranking Member, Washington Visit Site
- Loretta Sanchez, California Visit Site
- Mike McIntyre, North Carolina Visit Site
- Robert A. Brady, Pennsylvania Visit Site
- Rob Andrews, New Jersey Visit Site
- Susan A. Davis, California Visit Site
- James R. Langevin, Rhode Island Visit Site
- Rick Larsen, Washington Visit Site
- Jim Cooper, Tennessee Visit Site
- Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Guam Visit Site
- Joe Courtney, Connecticut Visit Site
- David Loebsack, Iowa Visit Site
- Niki Tsongas, Massachusetts Visit Site
- John Garamendi, California Visit Site
- Hank Johnson, Georgia Visit Site
- Colleen Hanabusa , Hawaii Visit Site
- Jackie Speier, California Visit Site
- Ron Barber, Arizona Visit Site
- Andre Carson, Indiana
- Carol Shea-Porter, New Hampshire Visit Site
- Dan Maffei, New York
- Derek Kilmer , Washington
- Joaquin Castro, Texas
- Tammy Duckworth, Illinois
- Scott Peters, California
- Bill Enyart, Illinois
- Pete Gallego, Texas
- Marc Veasey, Texas
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I gave my name and address, then I said I had heard through news outlets about Tuesday's Kill List. I said that in my understanding, the targeted people, are people who disagree with the administration's illegal wars, and imperialism, and I noted that "they" have not said that US citizens are "off limits". Therefore, kindly add me to the "list" as I disagree wholeheartedly with the policies that include the "collateral damage" that appears not to matter. I reminded the operator that the innocent civilians, many children, are being drone murdered. She seemed not to know much, but said that she would relay the message. Sandy
Well, I have to say, the operator I spoke with was very decent and civil (as one would expect) I asked if he knew who was on the President's kill list secret kill list? He said, well I don't think it's secret but you probably know as much as I do. It took a little while before he got that I was talking about the drones. I told him that the list was composed of people who were obviously opposed to the President's drone policy of killing people and that I was one of thoise people and that since the President has given himself the authority to kill US citizens, the I was a citizen and I lived in Woodstock, NY and could they also put me on the list? So after a little more conversation he said, "so you want me to put down as your comment that you oppose the use of drones to kill terrorists." and I said no, you almost have it right but I want you to put down that I oppose the use of drones to kill anybody. Period. But that since there was such a list to authorize that I wanted to be on it. I give the guy credit, sounded like a mature man, and he was civil and respectful all the way, as was I. Kind of fun but I do have my doubts that it will do much. Still, every effort . . . .
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