A Letter from Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Senator:
February 14, 2008
Mr. Albert Kakoczky
Remembering your interest . .
. . in the issue of warrantless wiretapping and domestic surveillance programs, I wanted to write to you with an update on recent Congressional action.
On February 12, I voted against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act. This legislation would have endorsed the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program. I voted against similar legislation last year. I share your grave concerns about this program and its lack of oversight. This legislation also included full immunity for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Administration's wiretapping program. Full immunity prevents these important constitutional issues from getting a hearing in the courts. Because of this, and because the legislation did not go far enough to protect the civil liberties of American citizens, I opposed the FISA bill.
The House of Representatives did not include immunity in its version of the bill, and President Bush has threatened a veto. As this issue continues to be debated in Congress, I will continue to fight for our civil liberties and to hold the Bush Administration accountable for its actions. As always, please don't hesitate to contact me if my office can be of assistance to you or your family.
Sincerely,
Debbie Stabenow
United States Senator
DS:bs
Me:
It is a start, but more like baby steps toward the real action that this country needs to fight off the felons who are taking over our nation...
An impassioned reply: I wrote...
Dear Ms. Stabenow,
Considering the long list of crimes that this administration has committed, it is way past time to impeach. I am particularly wounded by the crimes that took place on 9/11, crimes for which no one has been indicted or tried. I sense that it took only a few anthrax letters to stiffle any outcry from the legislature of our country, who might have sought a more unbiased investigation and demanded answers to the as unanswered questions about that day, and there are MANY. The means, motive and opportunity for these unprecedented crimes belonged largely to the Bush clan(false flags, anyone?). Yet the attacks of September 11 were used as justification for many of the further abuses of the administration, perhaps all. Like a broken record, the administration repeats "The world has changed since 9/11." We were told by the pundits that we would have to "balance the rights and freedoms with the need for security," an balancing act which, of course, will find us in possession of neither, as was stated by Ben Franklin?.
Beginning with these unprecedented crimes against our citizens, and running through the inadequate and biased investigation, the stonewalling of the same, the pre-planned invasion of Afghanistan, the war on Iraq based upon falsified intelligence, numerous signing statements, implementing torture as a policy, the illegal actions of the telecoms, the pardoning of administration convicts, the refusal of admin officials to even testify before congress.....I could go on and on. Our country has indeed changed. We have a decider, whoops, dictator in office, and a scoundrel as Vice.
It is long past overdue for such proceedings to begin. I don't care how long it takes, because there is no issue confronting the legislature or our citizens which is more fundamental to our country. Freedom is not some watchword, it is the concept which made our people great, led us to become the most powerful nation on earth, and led us to accomplish technological miracles. Our greatness is not based upon security. As an artist, I understand what it is to take risks, artistically, financially, and socially. What would our society be without such risk-taking?
There is so much more that I would say about this quagmire we have become as a nation. Subcontracting out our governments functions is wasteful and inefficient, whether it involves private armies like Blackwater(red flags, anyone?), the federal reserve or janitors. Creativity is subsumed to the demands of the dollar and we are all poorer for it.
If you want to prove that this country and it's ideals still mean something, than it is time to confront those who subvert the rule of law in the name of greed. To do otherwise is to prove to me and other astute citizens that this is a country of hypocrites, who talk the talk out of one side of their mouths about freedom while grabbing piles of cash with both hands, and harming anybody who threatens their profit stream.
Witness the war on drugs, even the war on hemp.... The needs of our citizens(renewable resources, agriculture, etc) are subsumed to those of very powerful petrochemical concerns. It is time that the citizens and their needs take a front seat to the needs of these selfish non-citizen entities. If you wish to see our country flourish in this century, it is imperative to begin addressing our concerns and needs first. The corporations can fend for themselves.
An aside..... It has not escaped me that as a young adult, I have worked for thirty years, hand to mouth, month to month, just to become bankrupt, while at the same time, our nation has hosted the greatest economic expansion in history....The corporations have profited from my hard work while I have struggled to pay the bills. Where is my reward? The profits came of of the sweat of my brow, off of the pain in my back, off of the blood from my fingertips, and what do I have to show? It is economic slavery.
Show that you care about the citizens, the young, the old, the powerless, the beasts of burden, then you will earn our respect and gratitude.
Impeach.
February 14, 2008
Mr. Albert Kakoczky
Remembering your interest . .
. . in the issue of warrantless wiretapping and domestic surveillance programs, I wanted to write to you with an update on recent Congressional action.
On February 12, I voted against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act. This legislation would have endorsed the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program. I voted against similar legislation last year. I share your grave concerns about this program and its lack of oversight. This legislation also included full immunity for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Administration's wiretapping program. Full immunity prevents these important constitutional issues from getting a hearing in the courts. Because of this, and because the legislation did not go far enough to protect the civil liberties of American citizens, I opposed the FISA bill.
The House of Representatives did not include immunity in its version of the bill, and President Bush has threatened a veto. As this issue continues to be debated in Congress, I will continue to fight for our civil liberties and to hold the Bush Administration accountable for its actions. As always, please don't hesitate to contact me if my office can be of assistance to you or your family.
Sincerely,
Debbie Stabenow
United States Senator
DS:bs
Me:
It is a start, but more like baby steps toward the real action that this country needs to fight off the felons who are taking over our nation...
An impassioned reply: I wrote...
Dear Ms. Stabenow,
Considering the long list of crimes that this administration has committed, it is way past time to impeach. I am particularly wounded by the crimes that took place on 9/11, crimes for which no one has been indicted or tried. I sense that it took only a few anthrax letters to stiffle any outcry from the legislature of our country, who might have sought a more unbiased investigation and demanded answers to the as unanswered questions about that day, and there are MANY. The means, motive and opportunity for these unprecedented crimes belonged largely to the Bush clan(false flags, anyone?). Yet the attacks of September 11 were used as justification for many of the further abuses of the administration, perhaps all. Like a broken record, the administration repeats "The world has changed since 9/11." We were told by the pundits that we would have to "balance the rights and freedoms with the need for security," an balancing act which, of course, will find us in possession of neither, as was stated by Ben Franklin?.
Beginning with these unprecedented crimes against our citizens, and running through the inadequate and biased investigation, the stonewalling of the same, the pre-planned invasion of Afghanistan, the war on Iraq based upon falsified intelligence, numerous signing statements, implementing torture as a policy, the illegal actions of the telecoms, the pardoning of administration convicts, the refusal of admin officials to even testify before congress.....I could go on and on. Our country has indeed changed. We have a decider, whoops, dictator in office, and a scoundrel as Vice.
It is long past overdue for such proceedings to begin. I don't care how long it takes, because there is no issue confronting the legislature or our citizens which is more fundamental to our country. Freedom is not some watchword, it is the concept which made our people great, led us to become the most powerful nation on earth, and led us to accomplish technological miracles. Our greatness is not based upon security. As an artist, I understand what it is to take risks, artistically, financially, and socially. What would our society be without such risk-taking?
There is so much more that I would say about this quagmire we have become as a nation. Subcontracting out our governments functions is wasteful and inefficient, whether it involves private armies like Blackwater(red flags, anyone?), the federal reserve or janitors. Creativity is subsumed to the demands of the dollar and we are all poorer for it.
If you want to prove that this country and it's ideals still mean something, than it is time to confront those who subvert the rule of law in the name of greed. To do otherwise is to prove to me and other astute citizens that this is a country of hypocrites, who talk the talk out of one side of their mouths about freedom while grabbing piles of cash with both hands, and harming anybody who threatens their profit stream.
Witness the war on drugs, even the war on hemp.... The needs of our citizens(renewable resources, agriculture, etc) are subsumed to those of very powerful petrochemical concerns. It is time that the citizens and their needs take a front seat to the needs of these selfish non-citizen entities. If you wish to see our country flourish in this century, it is imperative to begin addressing our concerns and needs first. The corporations can fend for themselves.
An aside..... It has not escaped me that as a young adult, I have worked for thirty years, hand to mouth, month to month, just to become bankrupt, while at the same time, our nation has hosted the greatest economic expansion in history....The corporations have profited from my hard work while I have struggled to pay the bills. Where is my reward? The profits came of of the sweat of my brow, off of the pain in my back, off of the blood from my fingertips, and what do I have to show? It is economic slavery.
Show that you care about the citizens, the young, the old, the powerless, the beasts of burden, then you will earn our respect and gratitude.
Impeach.
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