(1:00AM EST – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)
Amid all the diatribes, my letter to Senator Webb, to be ignored, with an automated letter to come six weeks from now:
Dear Senator Webb,
I write knowing that my words will have little impact, a staffer will quickly stuff this into the pile for a form response.
Mr Webb: I was a member of (a bit player/contributor to) DraftWebb. I had and have a great deal of respect for you, on multiple levels. I am hoping (somewhat without hope) that you will live up to, and exceed, that respect through a forceful stance with those like Dodd and Feingold who stand ready to fight against the House FISA capitulation to Bush Administration illegalities.
I use computers. I use the internet. I communicate.
I am a citizen. I am a patriot. I have put my life on the line for my, for our nation.
And, as you have, I have sworn oaths to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.
The FISA bill, with its ex posto facto and blanket and secretive amnesty for the telecommunications industry, violates the 4th Amendment, it rips it to shreds.
You have sworn to uphold the Constitution.
Will you uphold your oath?
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. . . on Capitol Hill and once in a Governor’s Office.
1. One letter does not make a difference.
2. 250 letters very well can. A thousand? You’re cookin’!
3. Petitions don’t impress anyone.
4. “Astroturf” form postcards don’t impress anyone.
See again No. 2 above, and be encouraged. I confess that it’s been years. In other words, all three stints were Pre Email — yeh, we’re talkin ’80s. So I don’t know what effect a bunch of emails are. I imagine that if each email comes from an individual (as opposed to a petition, or some other formulaic kind of thing) they very well may have an impact, raise an eyebrow at least).
Mu . . .