[Osborn F Enready]

Here is the letter I just sent off to all my representatives, and the President.

I oppose the expansion of warrantless wiretapping, while understanding the serious threat to our nation of terrorism, in a climate of global insecurity and predictable, but ignored consequential blowback from our past and current foreign policies, mainly the War in Iraq. I feel the President and this administration have acted far outside the scope of executive authority in this matter to this point, and I feel that though our laws must keep pace with technology, individual rights must be respected and remain uninfringed by law, which has its meaning and purpose validated by the expressed intent of protecting the very rights in question. FISA may not be perfect, but it can be used until an effective means is discovered that allows security while respecting citizens individual rights to their full extent. More important to national security in my humble opinion, is the borders of our nation, which we as a people reserve the right to protect from foreign encroachment, invasion, aggression or illegal entry. This administration has failed miserably at securing our borders, and dealing with illegal immigrants that are being used to directly lower wages and workers rights in this nation. Another serious issue crippling our economy is the tax burden every American shares through the entire spectrum of taxation from income tax to sales tax and all the licensing and bureaucratic costs, most of which is incredibly inefficiently spent by the bi-partisan monopoly on power of Republicans and Democrats(lacking an effective independent third party check to that power). The S-CHIP funding is a disgrace to respectable government, and in regards to the cigarette/cigar tax, the exact type of measure of unfair taxation that brought about the Boston Tea Party, and our eventual rebellion from tyranny. Unfortunately, the lack of reason, logic and honest debate of these issues has become the prevailing norm of our national government. Last but not least, the serious deflation of the value of the dollar, through massive deficit spending, perversion of free-trade to broaden trade with communist and socialist nations, and seriously flawed economic leadership by the Executive since Congress failed to use its control of the purse wisely and in the citizens best intrests. I urge my representatives to seriously reappraise the gravity of our current situation, and the growing dissatisfaction of its citizens with our elected representatives, especially regarding the wholesale of individual rights to subjective, logically challenged arguments lacking substance or validity. Disrespect for our governments representatives leads to a direct disrespect for the laws that maintain peace and prosperity in this nation, and cripples the individuals ability to exercise their rights to limit and directly influence their government, due to their absolute loss of faith in the system to work for them as intended. I seriously urge my representatives, and all national, state and local representatives to take action to correct these tragic injustices to individual rights, and the American Government.