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There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate, but there is only one living Senator who has consistently represented the people of the United States since 1993. The rest have repeatedly sold out to special interests.
When the time came to vote for freedom verses fascism in the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Russ was the only Senator who cared enough about the people to vote "Nay." Despite pleas from the masses to oppose that bill, Boxer, Reid, the Nelsons, and other senators who are fighting for their seats voted for tyranny over freedom.
In 2004, Democratic Senators campaigned on the lie that they would support Feingold in striking down the Patriot Act. Instead, Boxer, Obama, Reid, and the others currently fighting for their seats deserted the people and voted to increase tyranny and they did so multiple times.
A while back, I attended a Patriot Act workshop at the California State Bar Convention that was led by a California Islamic attorney who was overwhelmed that Feingold, a Jew, had voted to treat Arabs as people while the entire rest of the U.S. Senate felt that Arabs and anyone who was different deserved to lose their liberty under the Patriot Act. The issue for most Americans was less that America had found a true hero and more that their Democratic heroes in the Senate had betrayed them. People were angry and the Democrats lost both houses as a result of the sell-out Patriot Act and War votes. The Democrats would have been victorious in 2002 if only they had listened to Russ.
In 2005, the Senate took another dramatic step in the wrong direction with the Real ID Act, which gave the U.S. Government the power to track the daily activities of all law-abiding Americans and to round them up and execute them if they were a threat. Most Americans didn't take the time to read the bill. The Secretary of Homeland Security has the power to waive all laws (including murder, kidnapping and rape) under the Act. While Senate Democrats joined the Republicans in selling out the people, Feingold held firm and voted "nay."
Feingold has always been the voice of freedom and liberty in the U.S. Senate while all other currently-living Senators have been silent. He has been the voice against war and tyranny. Yet polls show that Americans have forgotten that, more than any other Senator, Americans owe Russ Feingold their freedom and rights.
If Democrats lose the Senate to the Republicans, it would be a bad thing as the Republicans know how to be Republicans. But other Democratic Senators we are trying to save are also working hard at appearing to be Republicans. There is one, only one, living Senator who knows how to be a Democra,t and what have we done for him/
If the other Democrats win, they won't stand up against the extensions of the Patriot Act or against other acts of tyranny. They haven't in the past. Only a fool would expect them to change for the better. Millions of us contacted Boxer and other Senators to no avail prior to their votes for tyranny. I'm voting for Boxer, but I would rather be in Wisconsin voting for Russ, someone who has worked for my support and for yours.
So what can we do? Everything. We can flood Wisconsin in support of ALL OF US. If you live outside Wisconsin, you owe far less to your senator (no matter which Senator it is) than you do to Russ Feingold. It's time for you to take a vacation and spend a couple of weeks standing up for yourself rather than whining about the loss of liberty your failure to go to Wisconsin will cause. If you can't travel, get a phone list and make calls.
If I had any equity in my house, I'd mortgage everything I could so that my daughter would not be a victim of a Senate without Russ. Everyone who cares about the future of their children should consider doing likewise.
If we lose Russ, there will be nobody else to stand up for us. Wall Street has its Senators. Blackwater has its Senators. When you look at the facts, the people only have Russ Feingold. If we lose him, there is nobody for the people. Aren't we worth one Senator?
We've got just a couple of weeks to save our only voice in the Senate. It's time we put our money, our phones and our walking shoes where they will do the most good and not just for one day for every day - until we re-elect the only Senator who represents all the people of the United States.
