Senator Chuck Schumer stepped over the line last week, and embraced George W. Bush’s use of torture. Schumer agreed to support Michael Mukasey for Attorney General, even though Mukasey has signaled that he will uphold the use of waterboarding torture.

That’s against the law, against the Constitution, and against the spirit of 1776 that the United States of America was founded upon. Charles Schumer doesn’t seem to care. Senator Schumer only seems to care about the dirty back room deals that he can cut with the Bush White House.

The Democrats of New York State did not elect Charles Schumer to be the political ally of George W. Bush. New York State Democrats did not elect Senator Schumer to support torture.

It is time to let Chuck Schumer know that if he won’t support the values of New York State Democrats, then New York State Democrats won’t support him.

Tonight at 6:00 PM, New York Democrats will meet to protest again Charles Schumer’s collaboration with the Bush Republicans on the nomination of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General of the United States. The protest, organized by New York Progressive Democrats of America and Brooklyn For Peace, in coalition with local activist groups from around the region, will meet outside Senator Schumer’s house, and demonstrate there, at 9 Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, NY.

Call Brooklyn For Peace at (718) 624-5921 for more information.

To call Senator Schumer’s office to express your disapproval of his cowardly surrender to George W. Bush’s agenda of torture, call (800) 828-0498 and ask for Charles Schumer’s office.