Now we need Rep. Carson to get up in arms about the killing that's being done with drones!
A bill is pending in Congress -- the The Targeted Lethal Force Transparency Act (HR 4372) -- also known as the "Come Clean on Drone Killing" Act. At this writing, quite a few of Rep. Carson's fellow progressive caucus members have become co-sponsors for the bill. So where is Rep. Carson?
Rep. Carson's constituents need to contact him and urge him to co-sponsor the bill today.
Additional resources to help:
Identify your member of Congress
Example letter to a member of Congress in support of HR 4372: the Targeted Lethal Force Transparency Act (the "come clean on drone killings" act)
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First
Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) called the U.S.
on the carpet for dodging the call from the international community to
come clean about its drone killings. Then Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and
Walter Jones (R-NC) submitted a bill calling for drone transparency. So
... are we finally going to get the truth?(See REAL Progressives Demand that the U.S. Come Clean on Drone Killings)
As one protester, Carl, said, we need to keep urging people to resist --
"as long as the American people don't stand up and say "NO!" to this
military machine we've created, the military-industrial complex that
President Eisenhower warned us about, which is even worse now." Until
then, he continued, it will be U.S. taxpayers "that are killing the
people of Libya, and Syria, and Yemen, and Pakistan, and in Afghanistan,
and in the Philippines. and in Somalia. All over the world, our drones
our killing people in countries we haven't even declared war with."
(See 2014: The Year of Transparency (for U.S. Drone Use)?)
