I hope the Letterman reference amused the old-school late-nighters among you. Anyway!

I think the Patriot Act is sort of lame and while well intentioned, really poorly executed. So now that it’s up for renewal (a process not without contention, I might add), there’s some discussion in Congress and because I’m on the Congress.org mailing list, I get a link in my email that I click and fill in what I want to tell them. #Seriously, it is THAT easy. So I went and filled it in. Like this:

Please do not allow the Patriot Act to continue in the current form.
Wiretapping has not made me safer. No plot has been foiled because the
government could, on a whim, listen to me tell my husband what’s for
dinner. None of what was instituted in the name of my safety has made me
more secure. In fact, this Act has only helped advance the cause of
terrorists who hate the very freedoms that set the United States apart. By
damaging or eliminating entirely some of the liberties afforded me as a
citizen of the United States of America, this Act has done more to further
the aims of terrorists than any of the plots it is allegedly protecting me
from.

That little paragraph went to all my representatives in Washington. It is THAT easy to get involved. I’ll outline that more later, but really since I am on such a hot streak of posting letters I write to people, I thought I’d add one more.