Sign the DNC Petition against Republicans hacking Dem computers

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

SENATE REPUBLICANS HACK DEMOCRATIC COMPUTER FILES

Dear WhoCountsTheVotes,

Sometimes we come across a news story so shocking that it serves to remind us that Bush's Republicans will cross any line in their pursuit of full control over the government.

You have already heard how President Bush bypassed the Senate confirmation process and appointed Charles Pickering -- who authored the GOP anti-abortion plank and argued for lenience for a convicted cross-burner -- to a lifetime seat on the federal bench just hours after laying a wreath at the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr.

But they're not done.

This week, the Boston Globe reported that Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly accessed computer files belonging to Democratic members over the course of the year, stealing strategic memos and leaking them to conservative media outlets.

Republicans immediately jumped on the defensive, blaming the computer glitch that allowed them to access the files. That's like a burglar blaming an unlocked door when he robs your house! You couldn't make up a better story to demonstrate the excesses and lengths that they'll go to in pursuit of their agenda. Their tactics
illustrate their willful abuse of democratic rules as they attempt to pack our courts with right-wing extremists.

They will do anything to increase their power through President Bush's right-wing extremist judicial nominees -- even illegal and unethical computer hacking.

TAKE ACTION!

Click the link below to sign our petition calling for Republicans to stand up and take responsibility for their unethical hacking and judicial power-grabbing.

http://mailer.democrats.org/rdr/002Ok06iB80001D

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Just because you can do it doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's ethical, and doesn't mean it's legal."

Former Democratic Judiciary Committee general counsel Beryl Howell

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[RebelOne]

1. Done

[callous taoboy]

13. Done

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[proud patriot]

2. Done n/t

[Cleita]

3. Done.

:kick:

[leesa]

4. Amazing that we have to sign a petition in order for our Congress to

confront blatently illegal acts.

[GinaMaria]

5. done

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

7. I signed it

yesterday. Hopefully, there will be something done about this, but I doubt it. The repukes are in the majority in both houses remember.

[Killarney]

6. done -- thanks

[sweetheart]

8. done

criminal hackers are off reservation... geesh!

[obietiger]

9. done

even added a comment - polite one of course

[Judi Lynn]

10. Thanks! That was satisfying. Hope it helps, somehow. n/t

[acmavm]

11. If we can get enough people to sign petitions like this it just MIGHT

begin to let these idiots know that their dishonest, sneaky, underhanded behaviour is not going unnoticed, and that it will not be tolerated by the American public.

Make the point that if they are doing this to the Democrats, what the hell do they think they are doing to the rest of us. My own daughter swears that Asscroft will be knocking on my door anyday and that my forwarding address is going to be Gitmo. Well,if they keep this crap up they'll have to attack another third world country just to have a place to lock us all up.

[Robbien]

12. Signed it yesterday, but have been thinking

GOP breaks into Democratic files and DNC's response is to file a petition to get them to say sorry?

[OneTwentyoNine]

14. Signed through my E-Mail but **BUMP** anyway.......