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Genuine Political Alternative Needed After Barack Obama's FISA Surrender, Says Bob Barr
ATLANTA, July 4 /PRNewswire/ -- "The two major parties like to say that a
vote for anyone else is a wasted vote," notes Libertarian Party presidential
nominee Bob Barr. "But it should be obvious to all that only the Libertarian
Party provides an alternative in November. After all, Sen. Barack Obama has
reaffirmed his refusal to live up to his promise to oppose the Bush
administration, which violated the law by conducting warrantless surveillance
of Americans' telephone calls."
Since September 11, the Bush administration has routinely sacrificed the
privacy and civil liberties of Americans in the name of protecting America's
security. "Yet the terrorist attacks on that tragic day resulted because
government was not doing its job, using the powers that it already possessed,"
Barr says.
"Unfortunately, the Democrats also were more enablers of government abuse
than defenders of American liberty," he adds. Sen. Barack Obama claimed to be
different, offering real change. "But when the Democratic congressional
leadership decided to concede to almost all of the administration's demands in
rewriting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Sen. Obama went along
with the crowd."
His supporters, who apparently really believed his rhetoric, raised a
firestorm of protest. Many of them warned the Obama campaign that they had an
alternative, another candidate and party that supported fundamental American
liberties: Bob Barr and the Libertarian Party. "But Sen. Obama still refused
to return to his original promise to defend the Constitution," says Barr.
"If Sen. Obama can so easily abandon a commitment on so fundamental an
issue, is there any issue on which he will take a stand," asks Barr? "We
cannot trust either the Republican or Democratic parties to defend the privacy
and civil liberties of Americans, which demonstrates the bankruptcy of the two
major parties." Only with the existence of an alternative is there any chance
to hold the Democrats and Republicans accountable for their promise-breaking.
"And only when Americans vote for an alternative -- in this case, Bob Barr and
the Libertarian Party -- will we change the wayWashington operates,"
concludes Barr.
Barr represented the 7th District ofGeorgia in the U. S. House of
Representatives from 1995 to 2003, where he served as a senior member of the
Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and
as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. Prior to his congressional
career, Barr was appointed by President Reagan to serve asthe United States
Attorney for the Northern District ofGeorgia, and also served as an official
with the CIA.
Since leaving Congress, Barr has been practicing law and has teamed up
with groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American
Conservative Union to actively advocate every American citizens' right to
privacy and other civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Along with
this, Bob is committed to helping elect leaders who will strive for smaller
government, lower taxes and abundant individual freedom.
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