Reply #18: Help the ACLU hold the President to his oath

[dzika]

Today, the President takes the presidential oath of office, "to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

But here at the ACLU, we are concerned that his actions will continue to belie that noble oath. Through their actions, President Bush and his Administration have made it clear that they want us to surrender our freedoms.

Today I am asking you to help the ACLU hold the President accountable to his pledge to protect and defend the Constitution by telling your Senators and Representative: "I refuse to surrender my freedom."

Tell them that you won't surrender your freedom ... and tolerate more and more government intrusion into our bedrooms, our churches and our doctors' offices, to interfere in who we love, how and if we pray and what kind of families we chose to create ... allow FBI investigations provoked by nothing more than exercising our freedom of speech ... accept that government agents could secretly search the books we read, the credit card purchases we make and the Internet sites we visit or stand silently by while they justify the kind of torture of prisoners that has long been held abhorrent to our country.

Click here to e-mail your Senators and Representative now!

You can urge your Senators and Representative to take the lead in opposing efforts to make the USA Patriot Act permanent. And you can urge them to oppose other affronts to freedom as well. Don't let them write discrimination into the Constitution ... undermine our basic right to privacy ... oppose reproductive freedom ... destroy the separation of church and state ... and selectively apply the right to due process.