RESOLUTION FOR HARRY REID TO STOP PATRIOT III (AKA
THE REAL
ID ACT, THE REAL DEATH
WHEREAS, Harry Reid ignored the wishes of millions
of
Democrats throughout America and led the Senate Democrats in backing
John
Negroponte, a man connected to death squads that killed nuns and
children in
Central America; Reid also ignored concerns about Yucca Mountain when
he backed
Samuel Bodman as Secretary of Energy, ignored concerns about Michael
Chertoff’s
support for water-board torture, when he backed Chertoff for Secretary
of
Homeland Security, and ignored Condoleezza Rice’s false statements that
helped
leads to a war that killed over 1300 Americans and hundreds of
thousands of
Iraqi civilians, when Reid backed Rice for Secretary of State, and
WHEREAS, Harry Reid put the interests of the
credit card
companies ahead of the welfare of the elderly, the disabled, children,
the
unemployed, and those in need of medical attention
when he voted for
the bankruptcy bill, and
WHEREAS, Harry Reid has stated that the Real ID
Act (aka
Patriot III, the Real Death Camp Act, HR 418), a law that guts the
Constitution
by placing the Secretary of Homeland Security above the Constitution
and the
law, endangers the health, safety and very lives of all Americans,
effectively
ends all future grants of political asylum and creates the basis for a
national
ID card, similar to the ones issued in NAZI Germany,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Patrick Henry
Democratic
Club calls on Harry Reid to stop backing the extremist policies of
George W.
Bush, a man committed to destroying the Constitution and to
establishing an
aristocracy and calls on Harry Reid instead to protect the
American
people from the kind of tyranny and terrorism planned by George W. Bush
and the
Republicans.
THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Patrick
Henry
Democratic Club calls on Harry Reid to mount a successful opposition to
the
Real ID Act (aka Patriot III, the Real Death Camp Act, HR 418) or to
resign his
Senate leadership position and back one of the Democratic Senators
who has
shown the courage to oppose the Bush agenda for minority leader.