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| Should we be flying our flags upside down, as a sign of severe national distress ? Our Constitution is under attack. Our nation is under attack. |
Tonight, the US House of Representatives narrowly defeated a Bill which would have defunded the National Security Agency's Program which collects and stores ALL phone calls and e-mails which involve anyone who is in the United States. Yes, Germany, Britain, Iceland and New Zealand. If you are talking to us, your personal phone call and e-mail data is being "captured" for the next rogue administration also.
There comes a time when you have to ask, what are you defending ? Is it worth defending a nation where our Constitution is treated as if its a Kindergarten Report Card, an archive, or an historical document ? What are you protecting if we are no longer the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave ? "
These are the representatives who voted to defund this particular little project of the NSA
These are our friends.
AYES 205 —
| Amash Amodei Bachus Barton Bass Becerra Bentivolio Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Blumenauer Bonamici Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Bridenstine Broun (GA) Buchanan Burgess Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman Cohen Connolly Conyers Courtney Cramer Crowley Cummings Daines Davis, Danny Davis, Rodney DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSantis DesJarlais Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Eshoo Farenthold Farr Fattah Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Fudge Gabbard Garamendi |
Gardner Garrett Gibson Gohmert Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) Grayson Green, Gene Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grijalva Hahn Hall Harris Hastings (FL) Holt Honda Huelskamp Huffman Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Jeffries Jenkins Johnson (OH) Jones Jordan Keating Kildee Kingston Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Lewis Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Lummis Lynch Maffei Maloney, Carolyn Marchant Massie Matsui McClintock McCollum McDermott McGovern McHenry McMorris Rodgers Meadows Mica Michaud Miller, Gary Miller, George Moore Moran Mullin Mulvaney Nadler Napolitano Neal Nolan Nugent O’Rourke |
Owens Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Pearce Perlmutter Perry Petri Pingree (ME) Pocan Poe (TX) Polis Posey Price (GA) Radel Rahall Rangel Ribble Rice (SC) Richmond Roe (TN) Rohrabacher Ross Rothfus Roybal-Allard Rush Salmon Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanford Sarbanes Scalise Schiff Schrader Schweikert Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Shea-Porter Sherman Smith (MO) Smith (NJ) Southerland Speier Stewart Stockman Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tierney Tipton Tonko Tsongas Vela Velázquez Walz Waters Watt Waxman Weber (TX) Welch Williams Wilson (SC) Yarmuth Yoder Yoho Young (AK) |
— NOES 217 —
These are the representatives who think it's okay to spy on all of America using our hard earned money.
| Aderholt Alexander Andrews Bachmann Barber Barr Barrow (GA) Benishek Bera (CA) Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Boehner Bonner Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Bucshon Butterfield Calvert Camp Cantor Capito Carney Carter Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Conaway Cook Cooper Costa Cotton Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Culberson Davis (CA) Delaney Denham Dent Diaz-Balart Duckworth Ellmers Engel Enyart Esty Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foster Foxx Frankel (FL) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallego Garcia Gerlach Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Goodlatte Granger Graves (MO) Green, Al Grimm Guthrie Gutiérrez Hanabusa |
Hanna Harper Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Heck (WA) Hensarling Higgins Himes Hinojosa Holding Hoyer Hudson Hunter Hurt Israel Issa Jackson Lee Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Joyce Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Kennedy Kilmer Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kirkpatrick Kline Kuster Lance Langevin Lankford Larsen (WA) Latham Latta Levin Lipinski LoBiondo Long Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Maloney, Sean Marino Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McIntyre McKeon McKinley McNerney Meehan Meeks Meng Messer Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nunes Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Paulsen Payne Pelosi |
Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Peterson Pittenger Pitts Pompeo Price (NC) Quigley Reed Reichert Renacci Rigell Roby Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ruiz Runyan Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Schakowsky Schneider Schwartz Scott, Austin Scott, David Sessions Sewell (AL) Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Stivers Stutzman Terry Thompson (CA) Thornberry Tiberi Titus Turner Upton Valadao Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Visclosky Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Wasserman Schultz Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (FL) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Young (FL) Young (IN) |
— NOT VOTING 12 —
| Barletta Beatty Bustos Campbell |
Coble Herrera Beutler Horsford McCarthy (NY) |
Negrete McLeod Pallone Rokita Schock |
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9 comments:
It looks like the real problem is that so many people in this country have no need for freedom. They don't mind being taken care of and seek what they need from the government so freedom is just a meaningless word in an old document. The early days of the country was a time of survival and about the only thing the government did was send troops to the frontier if you were lucky but usually it was a local militia. The constitution was written under this mindset and not for our current makeup of citizens. A collapse of some kind is unavoidable and since we are tending toward socialism, which doesn't work, it could be that kind of failure. It will take more government and loss of freedom to hold things together before the collapse. The problem is people not wanting freedom.
I think what you say may be true. How sad our nation has lost our taste for freedom when so many places yearn for it, or have just discovered it. I think it interesting that Russian citizens who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s have been among some of the voices so incredibly upset that many US citizens are letting their freedoms slip through their fingers without a word.
I'm a spirit in human form on a planet, I just happen to have been born in and live in America, but I haven't had an American flag for years. My flag would have a globe of the world on it.
Self serving politicians and big money interests are just allowing us the delusion of governing ourselves.
My mother used to say," Don't just be a good American. Be a good citizen of the World." A good plan.
I agree and to take that a step further, I believe that rugged independence was (and is) intentionally "educated" out of Americans. The first step many of us can do is to get our precious children out of the leftist indoctrination centers known as the public schools.
We stopped the fourth of July celebrations and all the rest we participated in. If it wasn't against the HOA rules I would have a tombstone in our front yard that said America, RIP.
This year, for the first time, we didn't buy the fireworks. It just didn't feel right. Oddly, no one else around here did either.
Yes, I think this is true also. This is why we homeschooled...that and wanting them to be able to read, write and do math proficiently. There are some good college programs and some good university programs which remain, of course run by dinosaurs like me.
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