Hopeless Geek

From Populist America:

The Protect America Act gives the federal government the authority to monitor American citizens’ phone conversations and e-mails, providing they are corresponding with persons “reasonably believed to be located outside the United States.” This bill, which was drafted mostly by the White House, was created in response to the 2005 scandal where President Bush was ridiculed for authorizing the National Security Agency to conduct a secret wiretapping program targeted at persons within the United States. A federal court ruling found that program to be what most people already believed it to be: unconstitutional.

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitutionstates: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Unconstitutional laws, such as the Protect America Act, are a direct attack on the Constitution and your liberty.

The Protect American Act is set to expire in 6 months due to a sunset provision that was attached to the final version of S. 1927. Congress will then have the opportunity to renew or reject the law.

In a statement made on September 19, President Bush called on Congress to make Protect America Act permanent.

I sent off my request to have them mail my token representatives with the following comment:

I realize that the elected representatives of Texas are wholly in the back pocket of the Republican Party and Executive Branch, but I would hope that for one fleeting moment you will remember who elected you, who you are representing, and what purpose the government is supposed to serve.

I urge you, I demand of you, as a constituent and American citizen to stop invading our lives and return to us our freedoms that you have stolen from us without our wishes or consent.

Let this be the first: deny the Executive Branch this wholly illegal and immoral ability and return to our government some sense of a balanced government once again.