My Letter to Nancy
Following through on my recent suggestion that we should all write to our representatives in Congress asking them to bring the president to justice for his admitted crime of domestic spying, here is the text of a letter I sent to House Minority Leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi. I also sent, with a few minor changes, this same letter to Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.
Dear Ms. Pelosi --
I am writing to you about an extremely grave matter in the history of our government and our nation. Recently, President George W. Bush admitted that he has authorized warrantless spying, through the NSA, on American citizens for the past four years. In bypassing the FISA court, which requires him to have a warrant to wiretap, this action is clearly in violation of both the FISA restrictions and the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The president, in no uncertain terms, has broken the law.
Worse than his admission of wrongdoing is his brazenly saying that he plans on continuing these illegal actions into the foreseeable future.
Ms. Pelosi, I believe that it is incumbent upon you and every member of the House of Representatives to initiate Articles of Impeachment against this president for his admitted high crimes and misdemeanors. We are a nation of laws, not of men, as our founding fathers so clearly stated when they drafted the Bill of Rights. Not to pursue this matter to its rightful conclusion -- that of removing George W. Bush and all the members of his administration who are complicit in this lawbreaking -- is to forfeit your responsibility to your constituents and to this great nation in which we live. It would be tantamount to admitting that the United States of America is no longer a representative democracy, but rather a dictatorship, one controlled wholly by the man who currently occupies the White House and his cronies.
I await your response, and urge you to take up this matter with all due haste, for the good of our citizens and of the republic itself.
Respectfully yours,
Generik
How about you? Have you folks written your representatives yet?
Dear Ms. Pelosi --
I am writing to you about an extremely grave matter in the history of our government and our nation. Recently, President George W. Bush admitted that he has authorized warrantless spying, through the NSA, on American citizens for the past four years. In bypassing the FISA court, which requires him to have a warrant to wiretap, this action is clearly in violation of both the FISA restrictions and the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The president, in no uncertain terms, has broken the law.
Worse than his admission of wrongdoing is his brazenly saying that he plans on continuing these illegal actions into the foreseeable future.
Ms. Pelosi, I believe that it is incumbent upon you and every member of the House of Representatives to initiate Articles of Impeachment against this president for his admitted high crimes and misdemeanors. We are a nation of laws, not of men, as our founding fathers so clearly stated when they drafted the Bill of Rights. Not to pursue this matter to its rightful conclusion -- that of removing George W. Bush and all the members of his administration who are complicit in this lawbreaking -- is to forfeit your responsibility to your constituents and to this great nation in which we live. It would be tantamount to admitting that the United States of America is no longer a representative democracy, but rather a dictatorship, one controlled wholly by the man who currently occupies the White House and his cronies.
I await your response, and urge you to take up this matter with all due haste, for the good of our citizens and of the republic itself.
Respectfully yours,
Generik
How about you? Have you folks written your representatives yet?
posted by Generik at 3:30 PM
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