Representative Tom Rooney only sent out a disgracefully prejudiced press release about a Smith/Amash amendment, claiming that it would “reward al-Qaeda attacks on U.S. soil” by “granting inherent rights to unfamiliar terrorists prisoner on U.S. soil.”

In reality, this press recover couldn’t be serve from a truth. 

From a impulse that Americans initial learn about a authorised system, we’re taught that in America, a complement is unique. That in America, a indicted are initial trusting until proven guilty over a reasonable doubt. This is a elemental basement for a authorised system.

And yet, Congressmen like Tom Rooney would find to spin a authorised complement on a head. That if a supervision accuses an particular of “substantially supporting” al Qaeda, a Taliban, or “associated forces,” they are already guilty by a small fact they’ve been accused.

The Smith/Amash amendment that Rooney is arguing opposite would forestall a unfixed apprehension of indivduals by safeguarding an individuals’ right to due process, a right that is stable by a Constitution.

The Constitution does not exist to strengthen only American citizens. It protects all people who are rightly in a country. If Mr. Rooney is disturbed about terrorists being in America, maybe a concentration of his regard should be destined during a comprehension community, as it would be a disaster on their partial if an tangible al Qaeda militant done it into a country illegally. 

C4L members should hit Represenative Rooney during 202-225-5792 and direct that he apologize for his descent press recover and conflict a unfixed apprehension of people rightly within a United States by ancillary a Smith/Amash amendment.