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I just received this in my email....

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June 12, 2013
Restoring Individual Liberty and Privacy
Dear Friend,

It looks like everyone who warned me about the Patriot Act was right - we have all been systematically lied to. It is as though we live in a totalitarian police state, and I will do everything in my power to undo the damage done to our privacy, our liberty, and our Republic. As the Declaration of Independence states, "whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it..."

I intend to start by filing legislation to start systematically shutting down the federal government by restoring the 10th Amendment powers of the States and restoring absolute individual liberty and privacy. I will begin with shutting down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and strictly limiting its mission to securing our borders and ports of entry and tracking, detaining, and deporting foreign nationals. I will also figure out how to repeal and/or roll back the Patriot Act to restore the absolute right to privacy that every law abiding American citizen is supposed to enjoy.

DHS should focus on its core mission and leave police powers and protecting lives and property to individual Americans under the Second Amendment and local sheriffs and the States under the Tenth Amendment. We should follow Israel's model for homeland security by focusing on behavior and people rather than focusing on objects. This is not complicated. Political correctness needs to be tossed out in favor of common sense law enforcement techniques and an absolute guarantee of privacy for law abiding American citizens.

I regret that I voted to create the Department of Homeland Security and I regret that I voted for the Patriot Act. I never saw evidence of abuse of our privacy because Congress was lied to just as the public has been lied to. I will work hard to undo the damage these laws have done to our liberty, our privacy, and our Republic. I will be a zealot on restoring our liberty and shutting down as much of the federal police state as I can.

Sincerely,

John Culberson

Sounds more like a campaign than anything.

C.....Y......A

Well, it IS the first time I can recall seeing a politician admit he screwed up.

you know, i SERIOUSLY have a case of the red @$$ and start getting worried when politicians use the words "common sense" with any political ideology. (common sense gun control, common sense law enforcement techniques, common sense immigration reform...)

He's owned,..fuggim,..

http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/John_Culberson.htm

Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's roving wiretaps. (Feb 2011)
Voted NO on requiring FISA warrants for wiretaps in US, but not abroad. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on Veto override: Congressional oversight of CIA interrogations. (Mar 2008)
Voted YES on removing need for FISA warrant for wiretapping abroad. (Aug 2007)
Voted NO on restricting no-bid defense contracts. (Mar 2007)
Voted YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant. (Sep 2006)
Voted YES on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight. (Apr 2006)

Must be campaigning.

Yep big time cya.

It is my understanding that congress was briefed on this program; HE wasn't lied to and voted in favor of lying to US.

It's from a politician, don't believe him! The fugger's lieing to you! The next election is gonna' be a rough one for me 'cause there is no way in hell I'll ever vote a lieing, crooked, over-sexed Democrat and I don't like the dammed Republicans either 'cause I believe they are as big of liars as the others. If nothing else; they are useless because all they do is have "oversight' hearings and nothing ever gets done. It's about time they cut out the "OVERSIGHT" [bleep] and look the dammm problem right in the eye and correct it!

Politician w/mouth open = lying

New member, one post on how great this congressman is.....

Probably from a paid PR firm.

HEY CONGRESSMAN, SHOW ME THE LEGISLATION!!!

yes new member, no not pr firm, looked like an ideal opportunity for my first post.

yes i agree its CYA, he's in the hot seat as are so many others like him. I'm tired of strait party BS, its time for them to think about what they are screwing up.

my only hope is that someone can run against him that's worth voting for...

YOU SAID IT, sir.. Best post of the day, by far..

(big-time applause)...

Anybody stupid enough not to have forseen this when the Act was passed is too stupid to be in Congress.

If any politician takes big money from a special interest group he or she is OWNED. That leaves folks like us out since all we can offer is a vote and not money. As we have seen time and again votes from our corner cannot beat big dollars from a special interest group. Greenbacks rule. kwg