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Sent to the Honorable Shelley Capito, via email and cross-posted to DailyKos
I am writing as a concerned citizen of both the United States and your district to express my concern over you recent vote for the FISA bill. While I understand that we must act to protect America, we must keep in mind that we must also protect America from ourselves.
Ben Franklin said that the society that gives up a little bit of freedom for the sake of protection will soon have neither. As we go forward in the post-9/11 world, we must keep this mind. Already we have given up too many of our freedoms to the Executive branch, and a compliant congress stood by and did nothing for fear of political retribution.
That you would willingly cast your vote for a bill that would grant the executive branch far reaching surveillance capabilities free from the check and balances that our Founding Fathers intended for such powers, free from the open air of the judicial branch, is not just deeply troubling, it is scary.
I realize that you have, sadly, already voted for this egregious act that runs counter to everything this country was founded upon nearly two-hundred and fifty years ago; however, that does not mean that I cannot ask you to no longer support such measures in the future.
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