Email to Nancy Pelosi
Regarding the Port Security Act, and more specifically, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
This law that restricts how Americans may not use their bank accounts, credit and debit cards, is extremely troubling to me. It’s not the fact
that online gambling is the target, but the fact that this law opens a “Pandora’s Box” that Americans will come to regret. So, in the
interests of stamping out online gambling in the US, we are supposed to give all of this power to the US government, an institution which
is known for overreaching, and using laws for purposes for which they were not intended.
So, it’s online gambling we need to be protected from this time. What’s next? We can’t be protected from outselves by the government.
That is not, or should not be, its job. that’s not democracy. It’s an authoritarian form of government.
I, for one, do not trust the employees empowered with this law to be very circumspect in how it is applied. I know of too many instances where
powers once given, have been abused in the most egregious ways.
This smacks too much of the recent authoritarian turn in our government, what with reading mail without a warrant, and CIA and Military Intelligence doing
domestic surveillance of US citizens. Our founding fathers and mothers fought against just this type of tyrannny. But it seems that a certain form
of fascism is alive and well, and growing in popularity in our country.
Madame Speaker, you’re a soldier in this battle, and if you don’t step up and speak out against just such laws as this, what hope do we private
citizens have?
You know, it wasn’t so very long ago, many brave men and women made the ultimate sacrifice to stop another authoritarian figure who usurped power
through promoting fear, and using intimidation. Don’t think it can’t happen again. Those who forget (or ignore) the past are doomed to repeat it.