Please forward this to your friends. Ask them to call their Senators as soon as possible—Today!

The Senate Vote is at 5:00PM today--Monday 5/23/11 to Extended this Un-Patriotic—so called

Patriot Act. It is a direct attack against our US Bill of Rights and Constitution. See below for some

Specific examples. Let’s get our Government to live within the Constitution—Call your Senators

Today--Ask them to Vote—No  on extending this miss-named—Patriot Act.

A message from National Association for Gun Rights follows:

Desperate to give a radically anti-gun White House the tools to spy on “domestic terrorists” – translate that to mean law-abiding gun owners like you and me-- Harry Reid (D-NV) and Obamacrats in Congress have conspired with Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to ram an extension of the badly mis-named Patriot Act through Congress on Monday!

   Despite the resounding message that gun-owners and liberty advocates sent in the last election, it’s business as usual in Washington D.C.

   Senate Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a vote for 5pm (EDT) Monday afternoon on a Motion to Proceed to extend the anti-Patriot Act, the first major hurdle this freedom-shredding legislation must pass.

   If the Motion to Proceed passes, they could formally vote on and pass a four-year extension of the Patriot Act as early as Thursday!

   Why the secretive rush?

   Several of the more egregious provisions are set to expire on May 27, and the statist, Big Government types can’t allow that to happen.

   Re-authorization of the mis-named Patriot Act gives government jackboots more and more tools in their war on gun owners and gun rights activists, who Obamacrats smear as “Radical Extremists” and even “Domestic Terrorists.”

   Even a gesture as simple as placing a pro-gun bumper sticker on your car or supporting a pro-gun candidate makes you a potential “domestic terrorist” in the eyes of the Obamacrats currently running our government.

   That makes YOU a potential target of unconstitutional domestic spying.

   I hope you’re not confused by Washington’s political games.

   Let me be very clear, a vote for cloture (passage) of the Motion to Proceed on Monday is a vote to shred your rights.

   Obamacrats and their anti-liberty Republican stooges may hem and haw about how Monday’s vote is only “procedural,” but don’t be confused.

   An “Aye” vote on Monday is a vote to extend and re-authorize:

• Roving, warrantless wiretaps of virtually EVERY form of electronic communication used by U.S. citizens.
• Secret federal searches without warrants OR knowledge of the resident.
• Blanket warrants for the search and seizure of all library records, without naming individual suspects or providing probable cause.
• Judicial warrants replaced with “National Security Letters” signed by unaccountable Obama Administration bureaucrats and gag orders for those served with these letters which make it illegal to tell anyone about it — including your spouse and your priest!
• Drastic expansion of the definition of “domestic terrorism,” which is sure to include gun owners.
• Expands asset seizure to permit the taking of assets from anyone “suspected” of terrorism, even if that person is NEVER charged or sent to trial.
• Lone wolf provisions which allow the government to spy on ANYONE even if they’re not associated with a terrorist organization or foreign national, without due process or notification.

   The situation is dire….

            …but, all is not completely lost.

   When the 90 day extension of the mis-named Patriot Act passed the Senate earlier this year, I didn’t think anyone, aside from Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), would oppose it. I’m glad to say I was wrong, and a bi-partisan coalition of 12 Senators led by Senators Paul and Mike Lee (R-UT) opposed the 90 day extension.

   Now is the time to act. Gun owners and liberty-lovers must turn up the heat in Washington.

   I need you to call both your U.S. Senators today, and DEMAND that they oppose ANY extension of the Patriot Act.

   Demand that they stand up for gun owners and protect your Constitutional rights.

   Time is short, and your inaction will almost certainly ensure we suffer through four more years of the freedom-shredding provisions of the mis-named Patriot Act. 

     Dudley Brown
   Executive Director

P.S. Please don’t delay. Harry Reid and John Boehner’s scheme to reauthorize the Patriot Act will be voted on Monday at 5pm (EDT).

   I need you to immediately contact Sen. Bill Nelson at (202) 224-5274 and Sen. Marco Rubio at (202) 224-3041 and demand that they oppose re-authorization of the Patriot Act.

   Tell them that you know a vote for cloture on Monday is against your basic Constitutional rights.