Senate Votes on "Patriot" Act Today

 Dear Patriot,

 The Senate will hold a critical cloture vote on renewing the Patriot Act at 5 pm eastern today, and only the immediate
action of C4L members and other true patriots nationwide will put a halt to the ever-expanding surveillance state and save the Fourth Amendment from

being pushed further into the shredder.
 
 Contact Sen. Rob Portman by phone at (202) 224-3353
and Sen. Sherrod Brown by phone at (202) 224-2315 to demand they vote against renewing the “Patriot” Act on every vote – including each

cloture vote.
 
 On Friday, May 27, three provisions of the misnamed “Patriot” Act
are set to expire.  
 
 In clear violation of their oaths to uphold the Constitution, the
statists in Washington, D.C. are determined not to let that happen.
 
 You see, last week, the House
GOP, under the leadership of John Boehner and Eric Cantor (who are turning their backs on the limited government mandate they claimed to support in

November 2010), cut yet another deal with Harry Reid – this time to extend the “Patriot” Act for four more years with as little

debate as possible!
 
 A four-year extension “conveniently” puts the next renewal vote
in 2015 – a non-election year when our brave politicians won’t have to answer for their actions at the polls.

 Empowered by the Republicans’ collapse on civil liberties, Harry Reid filed cloture last Thursday.

 Don’t accept the statists’ pathetic excuses for one minute – a vote for
“cloture” today is a vote FOR the Fourth Amendment-shredding “Patriot” Act.
 
Please don’t miss this point – if cloture (allowing for the bill to be debated and voted on) fails each and every time he tries it,

Harry Reid CANNOT extend the “Patriot” Act.  
 
 Period.

 But your senators are used to skating through on cloture votes and claiming that they are just harmless
“procedure.”
 
 Fellow Patriot, if you don’t turn up the heat on them today,
they’ll say they didn’t hear from their constituents about a “procedural” vote – even one that enabled Reid to get

everything he wanted with a simple majority vote on final passage.
 
 Your phone calls today will
keep that story from being true.  You’ll be able to hold them accountable because you told them before the vote EXACTLY what they were

going to do to the Constitution.
 
 They need to know – TODAY – that the freedom
movement is alive, well, and finished with watching them destroy our liberties.
 
 That’s
why your immediate action is needed!
 
 Contact Sen. Rob Portman by phone at (202) 224-3353
and Sen. Sherrod Brown by phone at (202) 224-2315 to demand they vote against renewing the “Patriot” Act on every vote – including each

cloture vote.
 
 Reid’s bill is essentially the same bill the Senate and President were trying
to rush through Congress without any debate in February - before Rand Paul and C4L members forced them to agree to a 90-day extension.

 For ten long years, Americans have been given a false choice by their representatives and senators between
trading some of their liberties for so-called “security” and experiencing a new 9/11- style terrorist attack.

 This viewpoint was as apparent as ever during the House Judiciary Committee’s final “Patriot” Act
hearing, where your pressure ensured C4L was heard in front of Congress.
  
 The problem for
our politicians, and in fact for all Americans who feel “safer” after trading some of their liberties, is that 9/11 didn’t occur

because of a failure to gather useable intelligence.  Rather, it occurred because of the bureaucrats’ failure to use the intelligence that

had been gathered.
 
 This is typical of the federal government.  Whenever it fails to do its
jobs properly, its solution is to throw more money at the problem and grab more power.
 
 The
abominable acts that occurred on 9/11 were unjustifiable, but we cannot allow the White House and Congress to destroy the rights and liberties that

made this nation great!  
 
 Contact Sen. Rob Portman by phone at (202) 224-3353
and Sen. Sherrod Brown by phone at (202) 224-2315 to demand they vote against renewing the “Patriot” Act on every vote – including each

cloture vote.
  
 Campaign for Liberty has done everything we can to make our position clear to
the politicians on Capitol Hill.  Now it’s up to grassroots activists like you to make your voices heard and turn up the heat.  

 Politics really is just a game of numbers.  Will your call be the one that changes your
senators’ vote from “YEA” to “NAY”?  
 
 Please, help C4L restore
our civil liberties and roll back the surveillance state by taking just a few minutes out of your day to call your senators.

 Remember Benjamin Franklin’s wise words, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
 
 The choice whether or not to
continue giving up essential Liberty is ours to make today.
 
 In
Liberty,
 
 John Tate
 President 
 
 P.S.  My
staff and I have spent countless hours doing what we can to fight the so-called “Patriot” Act over the last three months.  If you are

able, please consider chipping in $10 to help C4L

continue fighting for the restoration of our liberties.

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Comment by LYNN SHEDLER on June 7, 2011 at 2:37am: In CANADA, phoning anyone in our government never, ever proved prosperious at all. But, petitions did and emails did - especially emails. We would bog down their Web Site with our opinions and the staff had no choice but to read them or "Scan" them. Sometimes it was very sucessful & sometimes not; as in the case of H.S.T. (Harmonized Sales Tax)!!! That

issue has been debated for two years now. It has been an election "Issue" for the second time. Government is all lies - they are as Corrupt up here as they are down there!!!!

Comment by truth on May 25, 2011 at 11:53am

Reid Preempts Paul, Slips Patriot Act in Small Business Bill

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has circumvented a call by the newly elected senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, to debate the Patriot Act.

In order to prevent a filibuster, Reid performed “some procedural gymnastics,” according to Fox News, and slipped Patriot Act language into a House small business bill that is considered filibuster-proof.

In doing so, Reid has skirted objections to the bill led by Paul and has moved closer to extending the Patriot Act without debate. Democrats have applauded this effort to rush the extension into law without debate.

Comment by truth on May 24, 2011 at 11:11am: Senate votes to proceed on four-year reauthorization of key ...
May 23, 2011 ... The Senate voted Monday to end debate on a measure that would extend key provisions of the Patriot Act until June 1, 2015,