The Independent American Party
Holding Our U.S. Congress Accountable
(by Roger L. Tucker)
Within the halls of Congress there are a number of Congressmen who
have the intelligence and common sense to think for themselves and do what is
right. Out of the 411 members of Congress who were present to vote on a
monumental 9/11 intelligence bill containing over 3000 pages of document, only
75 had the backbone to vote “no” against passage of a bill they were not
even given time to read.
This is similar to what happened when Congress passed the USA Patriot Act on
October 24, 2001, immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attack. It was so
immediate with its unconstitutional provisions that some people may have been
hoping for and writing about such powers even before that terrorist attack took
place. Congress became so terrorized after 9/11 that they voted “yes” to
pass the USA Patriot Act even before getting the time to read and study what was
in it.
Concerning this most recent legislation, on December 7, 2004, I received an
Action Alert from the Liberty Committee ( http://www.thelibertycommittee.org ).
Within the Action Alert was this paragraph:
“The House version of the intelligence reorganization bill is in
two volumes. Volume 1 is 1,778 pages. Volume 2 is 1,586 pages. How many pages
are in the final conference report and what exactly has been added or deleted at
the last minute? Well, as of 2:00 p.m. ET, the final report is not available for
members to read. But the vote on that enormous bill will be held within
hours.”
The Liberty Committee Action Alert invited me to contact my
Congressman and ask him to vote “no” against the passage of the bill until
first having the time to read it to know what might be in it.
I sent the following e-mail to my Congressman:
“Dear [Congressman],
“Without doubt, I strongly urge you to vote “no” on the
intelligence reorganization or 9/11 bill. I remember how the vote on the Patriot
Act was handled. Members had only a few hours to read the final version of that
400-page bill. If you haven’t actually read and studied the final version of
the 9/11 bill (which is a few thousand pages), you can’t possibly vote in
favor of it.”
As soon as I received the Liberty Committee Action Alert, I sent
the message. Unfortunately, before I could even get the message sent, the
Liberty Committee informed me that the vote for passage had already taken place.
I sent the message anyway.
Without our Congressional Representatives taking the proper amount
of time for study and debate on such important matters, where and into what is
all of this passage of legislation leading us?
If people think that it is all right that we disregard our rights
of liberty, that are written into the laws of our Constitution, in order for us
to fight domestic terrorism while we engage in pre-emptive wars against nations
with no proven attack against us, people need to think again. The example of
where this is taking us is seen in Iraq. Many of the people there, who first
supported us as liberators, now view us as an aggressor. They now fight against
us and against those who support our military presence. In effect, it has become
a civil war between the new Iraqi Government that supports our presence on the
one hand, and those who hate our presence on the other.
The point of where this is taking us is this, if we give up our
civil liberties in order to fight terrorists while at the same time we create
the conditions that cause people to want to fight against us and become
terrorists, we can expect a never ending war and the end of our liberty in
America.
If the unconstitutional provisions in the USA Patriot Act and in
other such pieces of legislation are not successfully challenged, but allowed to
stand as they are written, we will be led step by step, if not by one large act
of terrorism, into the permanent loss of our civil liberties into the
foreseeable future.
We ought not put trust in man, but only in God and in the law of
our liberty, the U.S. Constitution. This is the liberty of the American
Revolution that so many have sacrificed their life for. This is what our
National Motto means by the words, “In God We Trust”.
The Independent American Party promotes independence, secure
borders, responsible representative government and a national population that is
educated in the rich values of our American heritage along with current national
and world events from the viewpoint of the Independent American Party.
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