A letter to Barack Obama

The following is the text of an email I sent to Barack Obama this evening about the Senate's impending grant of immunity to corporate executives and employees who may have cooperated in helping the current administration establish an illegal and unconstitutional domestic spying operation using U.S. telecommunications infrastructure:

Senator Obama,

I expect that tomorrow you will do everything in your power to support Senator Dodd's filibuster of the telecom immunity bill.

Nobody should be granted blanket, retroactive immunity for breaking the law or assisting others to do it. If telecom employees and executives want immunity from prosecution for breaking the laws of this land, then they need to provide their full cooperation in the prosecution of any and all government officials involved in violating the Fourth Amendment rights of U.S. citizens.

You want me, as a voter, to support your bid for President on the basis of your capacity for leadership. Fine: I want you to demonstrate your capacity for leadership by throwing your full and public support to Senator Dodd and his defense of what is left of our U.S. Constitution.

Sincerely,

[StuporMundi]

I wrote one to Dick Durbin, too, and it was even a bit snottier. Consider writing your own email along these same lines if you don't want politicians and corporations consummating their police state fantasies at the expense of our fundamental liberties.