Below is an email I sent to my Congressman about Senate Bill 1867 (National Defense Authorization Act). This bill that passed the Senate recently leaves it open to interpretation that a U.S. citizen within the borders of the United States can be captured and held indefinitely without trial if they are suspected of terrorist activities. Some of you might agree with that, but remember, this is the same administration that believes people with Ron Paul bumper stickers, the Tea Party, and returning military veterans are likely domestic terrorists. Yet this same administration refuses to acknowledge Islamic Terrorism.
I suggest you contact your Congressman and ask them to vote "no" on this bill once it heads to the House. Below is the text of the email I sent to my Congressman.
Congressman Doggett,
I am writing to you to ask you to vote NO on the National Defense Authorization Act (Senate Bill 1867) once it gets to the House. The fact that this bill leaves it open to interpretation that U.S. citizens inside our own borders can be detained and held without trial is unbelievable. This actually passed the Senate! For quite awhile now I have noticed that we are no longer a free country. Just trying to open up my own Investment Advising firm has proven that both parties' goal is to use regulations to keep honest people like me from opening my own firm.
But Senate Bill 1867 is definitely the nail in the coffin of the United States. I am 31 years old, and I am very disheartened that over the last 20 years we have believed politicians' lies that we can continue to spend and promise social programs that nobody understood the costs in the long term. All the politicians looked at was the amount of votes they would receive to get re-elected.
The insider trading I see going on with those in Congress makes me sick. If I traded on the same information that Congressman act on I would go to prison! How can these so called "representatives of the people" go into public office an average person and come out millionaires? No wonder our elected representatives NEVER leave office until being forced out.
Both parties are at fault. You have come to love your power and persuasion more than you love our country and doing what is right.
And no, its not all Obama's fault.
I see our country is similar to the Titanic. Our ship is broken in half, bobbing up and down, about to go to the bottom of the sea... and here we are arguing that changing the Captain is going to solve our problems. It's not going to happen.
Our country has been steered directly into an iceberg by our elected representatives over the last 20 years. And we the people, have allowed you to do it because we had an unprecedented amount of credit expansion via low rates provided by the Federal Reserve to live way above our means. We were comfortable as long as we had a 4 bedroom house, 2 nice cars, a boat, reality TV shows and football on TV. The people falsely believed the lies by our representatives that we could continue to expand the Federal Government and it's programs with no adverse consequences.
It is sad that we have allowed our country to spend itself into its own destruction.
Please vote no on Senate Bill 1867 and show that we at least aren't going to completely throw the Constitution out the window....yet.
