BREAKING: Kangaroo hearings against your property

THIS WEDNESDAY, two stacked — rigged! — Senate committee hearings will conclude that the feds should be free to hack into your machines.

I told my Senators AND my Representative that I OBJECT through DownsizeDC.org’s I Am Not Afraid campaign.

Please do the same. You may borrow from or copy this letter…

I KNOW that two Senate Committees will hold kangaroo hearings where federal agents will whine about their lack of technology.

They’ll say “national security” is at stake, unless there’s a law _forcing_ tech companies to allow federal access into MY computers and devices.

That’s like forcing safe-makers to give the government the combination to the safe I just purchased!

If the “government,” which can’t even protect the confidential data of its own employees, is given the keys to my machines, then…

WHO CAN’T GET ACCESS?

This security hole make me less safe, not more secure!

But you won’t hear that at these rigged hearings, because…

* The Judiciary Comittee will have just five witnesses (http://1.usa.gov/1H3GSGH). Four will paint a dramatic picture, probably with children dying, if Congress doesn’t give the FBI this unnecessary power. The only one providing even a modest “rebuttal” to State intrusion is a former Obama employee.

* The Intelligence Committee will have ONLY FBI Director James Comey as a witness (http://1.usa.gov/1T76Nme)

These are hearings? This is how you do “fact-finding?”

I DEMAND you reject the “conclusions” of these stacked-deck hearings.

We need MORE protection of our property and privacy, not less!

–END OF LETTER–

Send your letter here.

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Thank you for being a DC Downsizer,

James Wilson
Policy Research Director
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.