A email from Campaign for Liberty.
The Senate will hold a critical cloture vote on renewing the Patriot Act at 5 pm eastern today, and only the immediate action of C4L members and other true patriots nationwide will put a halt to the ever-expanding surveillance state and save the Fourth Amendment from being pushed further into the shredder.
Contact Sen. Bill Nelson by phone at (202) 224-5274 and Sen. Marco Rubio by phone at (202) 224-3041 to demand they vote against renewing the “Patriot” Act on every vote – including each cloture vote.
On Friday, May 27, three provisions of the misnamed “Patriot” Act are set to expire.
In clear violation of their oaths to uphold the Constitution, the statists in Washington, D.C. are determined not to let that happen.
You see, last week, the House GOP, under the leadership of John Boehner and Eric Cantor (who are turning their backs on the limited government mandate they claimed to support in November 2010), cut yet another deal with Harry Reid – this time to extend the “Patriot” Act for four more years with as little debate as possible!
A four-year extension “conveniently” puts the next renewal vote in 2015 – a non-election year when our brave politicians won’t have to answer for their actions at the polls.
Empowered by the Republicans’ collapse on civil liberties, Harry Reid filed cloture last Thursday.
Don’t accept the statists’ pathetic excuses for one minute – a vote for “cloture” today is a vote FOR the Fourth Amendment-shredding “Patriot” Act.
Please don’t miss this point – if cloture (allowing for the bill to be debated and voted on) fails each and every time he tries it, Harry Reid CANNOT extend the “Patriot” Act.
Period.
But your senators are used to skating through on cloture votes and claiming that they are just harmless “procedure.”
Fellow Patriot, if you don’t turn up the heat on them today, they’ll say they didn’t hear from their constituents about a “procedural” vote – even one that enabled Reid to get everything he wanted with a simple majority vote on final passage.
Your phone calls today will keep that story from being true. You’ll be able to hold them accountable because you told them before the vote EXACTLY what they were going to do to the Constitution.
They need to know–TODAY–that the freedom movement is alive, well, and finished with watching them destroy our liberties.
That’s why your immediate action is needed!
Contact Sen. Bill Nelson by phone at (202) 224-5274 and Sen. Marco Rubio by phone at (202) 224-3041 to demand they vote against renewing the “Patriot” Act on every vote – including each cloture vote.
Reid’s bill is essentially the same bill the Senate and President were trying to rush through Congress without any debate in February – before Rand Paul and C4L members forced them to agree to a 90-day extension.
For ten long years, Americans have been given a false choice by their representatives and senators between trading some of their liberties for so-called “security” and experiencing a new 9/11- style terrorist attack.
This viewpoint was as apparent as ever during the House Judiciary Committee’s final “Patriot” Act hearing, where your pressure ensured C4L was heard in front of Congress.
The problem for our politicians, and in fact for all Americans who feel “safer” after trading some of their liberties, is that 9/11 didn’t occur because of a failure to gather useable intelligence. Rather, it occurred because of the bureaucrats’ failure to use the intelligence that had been gathered.
This is typical of the federal government. Whenever it fails to do its jobs properly, its solution is to throw more money at the problem and grab more power.
The abominable acts that occurred on 9/11 were unjustifiable, but we cannot allow the White House and Congress to destroy the rights and liberties that made this nation great!
Contact Sen. Bill Nelson by phone at (202) 224-5274 and Sen. Marco Rubio by phone at (202) 224-3041 to demand they vote against renewing the “Patriot” Act on every vote – including each cloture vote.
Campaign for Liberty has done everything we can to make our position clear to the politicians on Capitol Hill. Now it’s up to grassroots activists like you to make your voices heard and turn up the heat.
Politics really is just a game of numbers. Will your call be the one that changes your senators’ vote from “YEA” to “NAY”?
Please, help C4L restore our civil liberties and roll back the surveillance state by taking just a few minutes out of your day to call your senators.
Remember Benjamin Franklin’s wise words: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
The choice whether or not to continue giving up essential Liberty is ours to make today.
In Liberty,
Mark Cross
Executive Director
Florida Campaign for Liberty
