<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">"David Segal" <<a href="mailto:info@demandprogress.org">info@demandprogress.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">June 18, 2012 2:38:52 PM CDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">"C G Estabrook" <<a href="mailto:cge@shout.net">cge@shout.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><b>Unconstitutional!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">"David Segal" <<a href="mailto:info@demandprogress.org">info@demandprogress.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; "><a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/go/626?t=1&akid=1403.1805762.S5K7w6"><img alt="" width="200" height="200" style="float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; " src="cid:0B6329B3-3637-431B-ADB4-BA9A1F19357F"></a></p><div>Let's take a moment to remember what's at stake:</div><div> </div><div><strong>Our own government asserts that the military has the right to lock you -- civilians, even American citizens -- up indefinitely, without charge or trial, if it decides that you're really really bad.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </div><div> </div><div>It's still astounding to consider, even six months after it became the law.</div><div> </div><div><strong><a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/go/626?t=2&akid=1403.1805762.S5K7w6">Please click here to support our ongoing efforts to put an end to indefinite detention. We're trying to raise $20,000 this week.</a></strong></div><div> </div><div>It is ONLY because of the lawsuit by Chris Hedges, Tangerine Bolen, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and others that the current position of the federal courts is that indefinite detention is unconstitutional. </div><div> </div><div><strong>This case could eventually reach the Supreme Court.</strong></div><div> </div><div>Tens of thousands of Demand Progress members have supported that lawsuit -- and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>more than 200,000</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have urged congress to oppose indefinite detention, generating ever-growing support for our cause.</div><div> </div><div>Now we need to raise funds to keep the fight alive: Our goal is to raise $20,000 to support the efforts of Demand Progress, RevolutionTruth, and the plaintiffs' lawyers, so we can keep contesting indefinite detention on every front that's open.</div><div> </div><div>(Your donation will also help fund Demand Progress's ongoing work against CISPA and in support of Internet freedom.)</div><div> </div><div><strong><a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/go/626?t=3&akid=1403.1805762.S5K7w6">Please help us reach our ambitious fundraising goal -- Click here to chip in 10, 25, or 50 bucks right away.</a></strong></div><div> </div><div><strong>Our success to date has been amazing -- and because we've won in court and helped foment opposition to indefinite detention in Congress, we're now invested in an effort that could drag out for some time.</strong></div><div> </div><div>The extraordinary attorneys Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer have been working for free -- but court costs are piling up, and they've got to feed their families.</div><div> </div><div>We expect Obama to appeal federal judge Katherine Forrest's decision, and we need your help to make sure the lawyers can keep on fighting as the government continues its crusade against our dearly-held civil liberties.</div><div> </div><div><strong>This case could be headed all the way to the Supreme Court.</strong></div><div> </div><div><strong><a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/go/626?t=4&akid=1403.1805762.S5K7w6">Please click here to help us keep up our anti-indefinite detention efforts -- there are more than one million of you, and as little as 10, 25, or 50 dollars apiece makes a TREMENDOUS difference.</a></strong></div><div> </div><div>Demand Progress and RevolutionTruth have dedicated a huge proportion of our (rather modest) resources to the cause of blocking indefinite detention. </div><div> </div><div><strong>The campaigns have been successful beyond our wildest imaginations: We're winning in court, and a bipartisan coalition in the House came close to killing indefinite detention a few weeks ago.</strong></div><div> </div><div>As the battle moves to the Senate and to a higher federal court, our organizations need your help so we can keep our work going.</div><div> </div><div>(Demand Progress will, of course, also be fighting CISPA and doing other work to promote civil liberties and maintain a free and open Internet.)</div><div> </div><div><strong><a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/go/626?t=5&akid=1403.1805762.S5K7w6">Please help us reach our goal of raising $20,000 this week -- can you chip in 10, 20, or 50 bucks today?</a></strong></div><div> </div><div>Thanks for standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us as we continue this critical work.</div><div> </div><div>-Demand Progress</div><img src="http://act.demandprogress.org/o.gif?akid=1403.1805762.S5K7w6"><center><div hspace="1em" vspace="10" id="fecBlurb" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 20px; width: 510px; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center; ">Paid for by Demand Progress (<a href="http://demandprogress.org/?akid=1403.1805762.S5K7w6">DemandProgress.org</a>) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. 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