Letters to Congress Re: The USA PATRIOT Act

[richardf8]

Dispatched minor variations on the following to my Coleman, Dayton and McCollum. Refrained from calling Coleman "Kapo."

I understand that Bush is requesting the renewal of the USA PATRIOT act. I wrote to you when it was first proposed urging you to vote it down. You voted for it, saying that the "Sunset Clause" made it acceptable to you.

Two years have passed. This administration, emboldened by a lily-livered opposition has, in that time overreached, seeking to establish such things as the "Total Information Awareness" project, the brainchild of Iran-Contra indictee John Poindexter.

Meanwhile, the 9/11 hearings are showing us that in spite of having enough information to say "Bin-Laden's planning Hi-Jackings? Let's make sure cockpit doors are secured." on August 6th, the President paid no heed. If he isn't going to act on the information readily available to him, why should we submit to unreasonable searches and seizures to provide him with more?

Of course, given that the President believes that the root cause of terrorism is "they hate our freedom," perhaps it is his aim to end terrorism by eliminating that "freedom" he imagines that they hate so much.

Please vote to let the sun set on this insult to our Constitution.

Comments

[parilous.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to submit your letter (with some modifications) to my Congressional representative and forward it as an example for my friends. What say you?

BTW, maybe you can share the link below with your friends, and we can start a letter writing campaign...

Write to your representatives here: http://www.house.gov/writerep/

[richardf8]

I don't mind, as long as modifications are made. If congresscritters get the impression that they are receiving form letters, they tend to discount the message, so generally, I feel it's better to write from the heart. But if this can inspire, feel free to let it.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

OK, who or what is Kapo? I don't think you meant the Polynesian goddess of fertility and black magic.

[richardf8]

Jews that were set to guard the concentration camps by the Nazis. To call a fellow Jew a Kapo is thus a pretty stiff insult. I actually did do it to Norm Coleman here. I regard him as a treacherous little weasel who cares for nothing more than his own ambition. But then, I remember when he was a democrat.