Another day has gone by in which Barack Obama has refused to address the concerns that a growing number of his supporters have expressed about the FISA Amendments Act, which Obama says he will vote for on Tuesday.

There’s a reassuring competence in the people protesting Obama’s support for the FISA Amendments Act. Take, for example, the comments below from Byron, a voter in Tucson, Arizona. Byron sees right through Obama’s claim that he must support the FISA Amendments Act in order to prevent the Protect America Act. Byron has the intelligence to remember that last summer, Barack Obama voted against the Protect America Act, and rightly so, because it has been an extremely abusive law.

Furthermore, Byron recognizes that Barack Obama’s move away from protecting the Constitution isn’t even the most pragmatic approach to earning the votes of wayward Republicans. Republican voters, after all, distrust Big Government. Why would they be convinced to vote for Obama with Obama’s support for a Big Government spying program?

Thanks for thinking for yourself, Byron. We need more thoughtful, informed citizens like you.

Here’s what Byron wrote to Barack Obama:

“Your support of FISA is a bellweather of things to come. It would be so easy to run against this bill: “Big government wants to wiretap your phone and email, with only a “trust us”. This is as unacceptable as gun registration. When I voted against this bill, I voted for freedom.” You want republican swing voters? That is the way to do it. Be strong. Instead you choose to flip flop from voting against the PAA (which we now can’t allow to expire?), statements of filibuster support, to now embracing a “better bad bill”. It is hard to remain much of a supporter and my wife and I certainly won’t be donating money or volunteering time to assist your campaign of triangulation.”