So, I got this assignment in Gov’t Class:
“Write a letter to a Senator in your state about the Bush Adminstration Domestic Wiretapping issue…”
This is what I came up with…
Monday, February 27, 2006
Senator John Cornyn
517 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510Hon. Senator Cornyn,
The recent news of a unilateral order from within the Bush Administration to spy on hundreds, if not thousands of people, via the NSA scares me. While I understand the need to protect our great nation from foreign threats, I staunchly support civil-liberties. I frankly feel, though I am certainly neither a law expert nor a congressional lawmaker just a concerned citizen, these actions were and are unconstitutional, unacceptable and must not continue.
While I would like to thank the government for keeping my best interests and welfare in mind due to extreme measures taken by extremist factions…I would like to point out the overwhelming power this grants the executive branch, even if only during war-time. This precedent could be used in future cases to amass more and more power for the executive branch, wresting it from the other branches and the very hands of the American People.
Without reform to the current FISA Court such as: re-organization or legal deadline changes or some new form of oversight takes place over these new wiretaps, simply I can not support it. I would like to, once again, stress my understanding of the need for national security, but please, temper your choices with consideration for civil liberties and the Constitution as written by our Founding Fathers.
Remember by whom you were elected. Elected to protect and represent by those people, your people. We are at a great juncture in American history, a time like no other. And while I am assured there are countless other average law abiding American citizens concerned about this issue as well. I, unlike some of the rest, will carry this concern all the way to the ballot box, allowing it to temper my decision as to who is and is not protecting my country; as well as my civil liberties.
Respectfully,
Xian Dee
Yeah, kinda vague, kinda pompous, like politicians… lol