the inquisitive techie

I signed the American Freedom Campaign pledge and fully support this great effort. They asked me to pass along information about the campaign to you. Visit the site and read, for this is truly a noble cause.

From their email, which does a better job explaining the campaign than I could:

• The American Freedom Campaign was launched less than eight months ago to build a grassroots movement to help restore the Constitution and reverse the violations of civil liberties and human rights that have occurred over the past seven years.

• Over the past few months, the American Freedom Campaign has filled an important role in Washington by leading the fight to restore our system of checks and balances. While there are many organizations fighting specific policies considered unconstitutional, few, if any, are focused almost exclusively on restraining executive overreach.

• Consistent with its mission to restore checks and balances, AFC aggressively – and successfully – pushed the U.S. House to pass a contempt resolution against Bush administration officials who refused to comply with congressional subpoenas. The Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, in an article about the contempt vote in the House, cited AFC as an example – in fact, the only example – of an advocacy group generating grassroots pressure on House members.

• AFC has also helped inject constitutional balance of powers issues into the debate over the nation’s Iraq policy. As the Bush administration negotiates an agreement with the Iraqi government to establish the parameters of the two nations’ bilateral relationship beyond 2008, AFC is working with members of Congress to ensure that no significant commitment is made without the approval of Congress. Toward this end, AFC hosted a conference call on which Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), joined by two constitutional scholars from Yale Law School, introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the House that any major agreement reached without congressional approval will be invalid.

• As the 2008 campaign moves forward, AFC will play a critically important educational role. We will aggressively push the message that the Bush administration’s dramatic expansion of executive power makes the selection of the next president one of the most important decisions the citizens of this nation will ever make.

The changes to our constitution need to be reversed, and our freedoms returned to us.