Barack Obama shocked his supporters last month by declaring his support for George W. Bush’s Orwellian program of spying against millions of Americans, codified and retroactively legalized by the FISA Amendments Act. It’s not too late for Barack Obama to change his mind, however. The Senate vote on the FISA Amendments Act is scheduled for next Tuesday, July 8.
With that in mind, a large number of Barack Obama’s supporters have organized a group urging Obama to keep his original promise, and vote against the FISA Amendments Act. As of this moment, the group is just 26 people short of having ten thousand members.
The members of this group against the FISA Amendments Act are willing to put their money where their mouths are. One member, David Fagelson from Pennsylvania, writes of Obama, “Apart from being such a gross assault on the constitution, it is an assault on the rule of law itself. If ever there was a time that he should have taken a principled stand, it was on this.” Fagelson continues,
“I am reluctantly diverting all the money I had earmarked for the Obama campaign in order to address a more urgent matter: stopping the FISA bill. This legislation undermines the rule of law, let alone the constitution and I deem it more important to stop or reverse that pernicious legislation than giving to Obama.”
Consider that Pennsylvania is a swing state, and you start to see the serious threat that Obama’s support of the FISA Amendements Act has become. Obama activists in swing states are one by one dropping out of his campaign, withholding their money and refusing to volunteer their time. Consider that these are the people who Obama had counted on to form the foundation of his campaign.
If Barack Obama has not heard the message of these pro-Constitution activists, it is because he doesn’t want to listen to anyone but professional campaign consultants anymore. Mr. Obama, it’s time for you to break out of your bubble.
Please, listen to your supporters. Keep the promise you made back in February. Vote against the FISA Amendments Act!
Update: In just the few minutes since I wrote this article, the number of members of the group against the FISA Amendments Act on the Obama web site has shot up to ten thousand eighty.
