Have You Seen Habeas?

ACLU Launches New Online Effort to Restore Habeas Corpus

	Help restore habeas corpus today: 1. Sign the petition. Help us collect 100,000 signatures and send a resounding message that we want Congress and the President to respect the Constitution. 2. Ask your friends to sign the petition by sending them an eCard. 3. Read the blog: Stay up to date on recent developments in our effort to reverse the damage done by the Military Commissions Act.

On April 18, 2007, the ACLU launched an aggressive Campaign to Restore Our Constitutional Rights — a far-reaching effort to reclaim our lost liberties, reverse bad laws and undo reckless assertions of executive power.

Our first priority is to reverse the damage done by the Military Commissions Act (MCA), which eliminates protections against unlawful imprisonment, convictions based on coerced evidence and numerous other violations of due process. It also gives the president absolute power to designate enemy combatants and to set his own definitions of torture.

To preserve American values of freedom and fairness, Congress must act now to reverse the damage done by this dangerous legislation and restore respect for the Constitution and the rule of law.

We’ve started a unique online campaign to educate and engage people, and it’s already gaining quite a bit of attention online and around the country. At the heart of the campaign is “Mr. Habeas Corpus,” a fictional character who’s meant to embody the very real issue that gives him his name: the fundamental freedom from unlawful imprisonment, which the Military Commissions Act has begun to strip away.

“Habeas” is an unflagging champion of justice and due process of law. He’s been looking out for us all for centuries and now he needs us to look out for him.

The campaign to “Find Habeas” already has dozens of blogs taking note, hundreds of people signing up to be Habeas’s friend on MySpace.com and thousands of people signing our petition to Restore Our Constitutional Rights. Stay tuned for other ways to be involved in this exciting effort by visiting FindHabeas.com for updates.