To all IL people: Contact Durbin

Dick Durbin is a big wig Dem on the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Contact him and tell him you want him to oppose Alberto Gonzalez's nomination for Attorney General.

Tell him that Illinois does not tolerate AG's who support torture.

Tell him here.

UPDATE: One of the most inspiring episodes from history involves the last, dark days of the Weimar Republic.  The Nazis were in the driver's seat, and Hitler had been appointed chancellor. The Reichstag fire had come and gone, and the concentration camps had already been put to use to arrest most leaders of the KPD (German Communist Party).

Still, Hitler's minions needed a 2/3rds majority to pass the Enabling Act, essentially establishing the dictatorship irrevocably. They could not do it as long as the Catholic Center and the Social Democrats voted together.

And then disaster strikes: the Catholic Center party folds and says they will vote for the Enabling Act.

And then, Otto Wells of the Social Democrats stands up:

"We German Social Democrats pledge ourselves solemnly in this historic hour to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you to the power to destroy ideas which are eternal and indestructible."

To a man, knowing they had lost, the Social Democrats voted "No" on the Enabling Act. It was too much, too brazen, too wrong, and they simply stood up and said, "Stop."

The Social Democratic members of the Reichstag were arrested after the session was over.

If only our Democratic Party would show a tithe, nay an iota of the courage displayed in that episode...