Cong. Roskam on 4th Amendment: "Faggedaboudit"
We should all salute the 94 Republican Congressmen, along with 111 Congressional Democrats, who voted yesterday to restore the 4th Amendment, guaranteeing every American the right to privacy. Unfortunately, my 6th Illinois District Congressman Peter Roskam wasn't among them. He joined the 134 Republicans and 83 Democrats to narrowly defeat (217-205) an amendment to the $585 billion spending bill which would have ended NSA spying on every American, including Congressman Roskam.
Two courageous Americans deserve special thanks for getting this amendment brought to a vote: NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden and Michigan Republican Congressman Justin Amash. Snowden deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom for giving up his freedom to inform us victims of all encompassing governmental spying of this despicable assault on our privacy. His disclosure ignited the firestorm of opposition that inspired yesterday's vote. Snowden still sits in a Moscow airport while Uncle Sam and Mother Russia wrangle over his fate. Stay safe hero Ed.
Congressman Amash authored the amendment and maneuvered it to a vote. Unlike Snowden, Amash still has his watered down American freedom but he's sure incurred the wrath of House GOP leadership, including Congressman Roskam, for daring to oppose the war party on their relentless dismantling of our Constitutional guarantees. That he brought it to a vote and nearly passed it was truly shocking. It guarantees, to quote a famous Republican, Arnold Schwartzenberger that: "We'll be back".
So, unfortunately, will our champion of Constitutional destruction, Peter Roskam, to make sure Amash and his growing cadre of Constitutionalists in both parties don't succeed in returning our freedoms. To give Congressman Roskam the benefit of the doubt that he may not realize what he voted to continue undermining, here is the simple and eloquent and precious freedom he voted against:
4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Two courageous Americans deserve special thanks for getting this amendment brought to a vote: NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden and Michigan Republican Congressman Justin Amash. Snowden deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom for giving up his freedom to inform us victims of all encompassing governmental spying of this despicable assault on our privacy. His disclosure ignited the firestorm of opposition that inspired yesterday's vote. Snowden still sits in a Moscow airport while Uncle Sam and Mother Russia wrangle over his fate. Stay safe hero Ed.
Congressman Amash authored the amendment and maneuvered it to a vote. Unlike Snowden, Amash still has his watered down American freedom but he's sure incurred the wrath of House GOP leadership, including Congressman Roskam, for daring to oppose the war party on their relentless dismantling of our Constitutional guarantees. That he brought it to a vote and nearly passed it was truly shocking. It guarantees, to quote a famous Republican, Arnold Schwartzenberger that: "We'll be back".
So, unfortunately, will our champion of Constitutional destruction, Peter Roskam, to make sure Amash and his growing cadre of Constitutionalists in both parties don't succeed in returning our freedoms. To give Congressman Roskam the benefit of the doubt that he may not realize what he voted to continue undermining, here is the simple and eloquent and precious freedom he voted against:
4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
As long as we have Americans like Ed Snowden, Congressman Amash and millions more demanding it be reinstated, Congressman Roskam will ultimately fail to tack on: "R.I.P".
posted by Walt Zlotow at 3:24 AM
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