Veterans For Peace Action Item - Please pass this on to all your friends - Immediate Action Needed!
Hi everyone
In the brig at Miramar is a prisoner of conscience, Robin Long.
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/blogcategory/42/88/
Robin deserted to Canada, rather than go to war in Iraq. While there he fathered a son with his mate. His mate has existing medical problems, so she cannot come to America to be with Robin because she cannot get medical insurance here.
Robin's sentence is for 15 months, and his return to Canada and his family is precluded automatically if he has been sentenced for more than 1 year.
Robin's family cannot come here, and as things sit Robin will not be allowed to go to his family when he gets out of prison.
SDVFP is trying to get Robin Long's sentence shortened by 3 months, or commuted. Toward that end we are asking all concerned citizens to please write one letter, addressed to each of the 3 Congressmen listed below. Send the letters you write to me at the address in Ramona, Below. A snail mail hard copy of your letters with a signature is preferable, but if you cannot do that, send me an electronic copy. Make sure you put your mailing address and phone number on the letter.
Dave Patterson
1003 6th street
Ramona, CA 92065
My E-mail - thefarm3@pacbell.net
I will compile the letters and take them personally to the Congressman's offices.
The subject of the letter should be commutation of Robin Long's sentence.
The letter should be very brief, highlighting how Robin decided that the war in Iraq was illegal, and refused to fight.
you can remind the Congressman that it is the obligation of every soldier to refuse illegal orders, and thus Robin should be a free man, not in prison.
A short explanation of how the lack of medical insurance in the U.S. precludes his wife from coming here, and his felony conviction prevents him from returning to Canada to his family.
We need to do the right thing and get him back with his family.
Ask the Congressman to do what they can to get his sentence commuted.
This is the start of a SDVFP push for Robin Long. Please get them in the mail to me this week!
Congressman Bob Filner
333 F Street, Suite A
Chula Vista, CA 91910
Senator Barbara Boxer
600 B Street, Suite 2240
San Diego, CA 92101
Senator Dianne Feinstein
750 B Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101
We have little time.
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/blogcategory/42/88/
Think Peace
Dave Patterson
San Diego Veterans For Peace
www.SDVFP.org
760-207-9139
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