Vote the following representatives out of office, please.
The following local members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted against a proposed amendment (the Amash Amendment) to the Defense Authorization Bill. The Amash Amendment would have defunded the NSA’s warrantless-wiretap domestic spying program. Please join me in ushering these people out the door in the next election and replace them with someone who understands civil liberties.
Arkansas
- Steve Womack
- Rick Crawford
- Tom Cotton
Oklahoma
- Frank Lucas
- Tom Cole
- James Lankford
According to this article,
The White House called the amendment a “blunt approach” that is not “the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process.” Naturally, the irony of that specific complaint resonates: The intelligence programs in question were not enacted with any of those forms of debate. To ask that their rescinding be held to a higher standard then their enaction is hubris of a real sort.
Underlining how seriously those who are in favor of maintaining the phone record collection program took the amendment’s threat to yank its funding, General Alexander himself — the good general heads the NSA — gave briefings on the Hill to House Democrats and Republicans, albeit in different sessions.
IF you want to know which heads need to roll in your state, there is a record of the votes here. See if your state’s representatives are in the “nay” section. The names in the “nay” section are people who no longer need to be in a position to make law.
Vote while you still can, folks. This whole Big Brother setup is some seriously f@#$ed-up business.… Read more
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