Disappointed with congressmen’s votes  August 4th, 2013   
Author: Administrator    Filed Under: Opinion  Dear Editor:
Rather than standing up for the rights and privacy of American
citizens, they chose to stand with the Administration and the
NSA in their continuing quest to spy on millions of innocent
Americans.  House Republicans claim that they want an open
discussion on the issue of government surveillance, but nothing
could be further from the truth. What they really want is to
keep the average citizen in the dark about exactly how vast the
surveillance program really is.  Our government is becoming
increasingly out of touch and out of control. They are using
9/11 and the war on terror as an excuse to slowly but surely
eliminate many of our basic rights and freedoms. Warrantless
wiretaps, secret courts, indefinite detention of American
citizens without due process, secret drone kill lists. How are
any of these things consistent with our Constitution? How are
any of these things consistent with the Ame