I’d appreciate any comments and editing advice, as I’m new to this. But this is gonna get faxed out to all those numbers out there soon. And I’d appreciate some feedback. Thanks in advance… And thanks to SaveTheCourt.org, for providing the basic framework.
Here goes…
Dear Senator,
Samuel Alito’s record is clear, and so is the threat posed by his nomination: presidential power unchecked by our Constitutional guarantee to the checks and balances of the executive, judiciary, and legislative branches of our government; Congress stripped of much of its ability to make any positive change; Americans stripped of their right to privacy and subject to abuses of corporate and government power; Americans being insidiously stripped of their civil rights; Judge Alito confirming basically that the President has unlimited powers, and can break the law if he chooses, as he has. The Patriot Act provisions being used against American civilians as a ruse of fighting the ‘War of Terror’, a war which can never be won; Alito’s efforts to side with unitary executive power and corporate interests over those of us ‘regular’ American whom our government took an oath to protect; the women, children, poor, aged, sick, minorities, who are being undermined and set back every single day under this current administration, and Judge Alito wants to give this administration MORE power to do just that. Forgive me for thinking that I do not live in America anymore. This is an outrage. NCLB, Clear Skies… these are but two of the opposite-named legislation that has come from this callous administration. They give not a whit about its citizens. The billions of dollars and the thousands of lives lost and the tens of thousand, if not more, permanently maimed in a war based on a lie? And how many Iraqi civilians have been murdered? Do you expect me not to be outraged? Do you expect me to be silent?
I understand that the filibuster is not a tool to be used trivially. Alito is not a trivial threat; he is a grave and dangerous threat. Stand up for your Senate, stand up for the Constitution, and stand up for we, the people. I ask you to filibuster Samuel Alito’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court. I implore you, to filibuster Judge Alito. I implore you to send a message that we will no longer be taken for fools. I implore you to do what is right by your conscience, not by your political advisors. Believe you me, if you can filibuster Alito, you will have gained huge ground with the grassroots and the netroots. We are the people here. We will fund you. You work for us. Look at the poll numbers please. Bush and his administration are losing to the majority of the population. And do not listen to your political advisors for once. Don’t listen to the media. They may call you obstructionists, but they are corporate and right-wing run. You know that! People are seeing beyond that now, look at the polls! If this fails, your grassroots funding will cease to exist, I can guarantee that. You need us more than you know. We are ready for real leadership and real opposition, or we are ready to clean house.
I mean no disrespect, and I thank you for all you have stood up for in the past, but this decision will affect us for decades. I do not want have to fight again for the rights we’ve gotten in the past forty years, but with Judge Alito on the bench, I am terrified that that is what we will have to do.
A concerned American who fears where are country is headed, who fears where we have fallen to already. And I fear for the world my children will be living in.
Thank you for reading my comments. Please, filibuster Alito. NOW!