UPDATE: MO Rep. Bob Dixon's Response to Amica's Letter to the MIAC Committee
It doesn't *seem* to be a form letter, anyway. According to Representative Bob Dixon, a copy of my letter will be given to all the members of the MIAC Committee. Of course, I have no way of knowing how or whether the Committee will actually use the information I sent. But this is as good a response a nonconstituent could hope for.
Ms. ---------,
I want to thank you for your letter, both electronic and through the mail. It is being distributed to the members of the Interim Committee for their review. The references you provided are appreciated, and will supplement the research work being done by our committee staff.
The points you raised and the information you shared will be kept in mind as we conduct additional hearings and continue our review.
Please feel free to contact my office with any additional information or thoughts.
Bob Dixon State Representative District 140
Text of the original letter:
http://periculosae.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-letter-to-miac-co...
IMPORTANT NOTE: The next hearing of the Interim Committee will be on Tuesday, July 28th. DPer OFallonBrent will be there. He has asked for questions to pass along to the committee. If you have not seen his thread, *please* take a look and give him a few more questions. The work of this committee will support the legislature's efforts to pass Missouri House Bill 1138, which would establish a House Oversight Commitee within the Missouri Information Analysis Center. If this passes, this would be the first successful effort of its kind in the country.
OFallonBrent's post:
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/100294
Your work has...
NOT gone unnoticed, my lady. You may have suprised yourself, but I think none of us were caught unawares. Your work is phenomenal and indeed your demons can be laid to rest. Many of us may have written such a piece, but while we dreamed, you worked. And it is with the greatest joy that I congragulate you on your efforts and the response it has garnered. Trust yourself, your instincts, and you can have no regrets; for you may well have shot truer to the mark than you think, and afforded us additional time and freedom to continue our preperations in defense of Liberty, yours, mine, all of ours. Congragulations, I'm glad I got to see this unfold for you.
Assert Your Authority
Assert Your Authority
Great letter you sent Amica :)
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Watch the hearing live
I'm going to do my best to broadcast the meeting live.
I'm hoping the quality will be good.
I'll post on the DP prior to the hearing where to go to watch.
I'll be looking for
I'll be looking for it...will have beer and popcorn at the ready. OK, maybe no beer at 1 p.m. :)
Break a leg, OFallonBrent!
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. ("I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"). Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 January 1787.
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bump for action.
Prepare & Share the Message of Freedom through Positive-Peaceful-Activism.
Outstanding, amica and Brent!
If DP gave awards for dogged determination, research, and activism, you would surely win amica. Your letter alone deserves our thanks....big bump.
Impressive
Your letter was very well written. Excellent - I hope it furthers the cause.
amica jeffersoni
Thanks for the post. the link to your letter comes up "page not found"
Try this and scroll down to letter
http://periculosae.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-0...
Great job, Amica!! Keep us updated! That was an excellent letter and I am so glad he will be using it!!
"I truly wish that real life would no longer surpass the worst excesses of my nightmarish imaginings... Arthur Silber **
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
I don't know why the link
I don't know why the link wasn't working...I found the same thing. But the page does exist; I tried it another way and the link worked. Here it is again:
http://periculosae.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-letter-to-miac-co...
One more thing...yet another shameless plug for OFallonBrent, who will be at the MIAC Interim Committee hearing on Tuesday. Please give him questions. This legislation is important. If you read my letter, it outlines efforts in Maryland and New Mexico to establish legislative oversight over their fusion centers, neither of which were successful. The real horror story was in Virginia, where legislation was introduced to exempt Virginia's fusion center from Virginia Freedom of Information Requests...so citizens have NO right to ask to see information collected by this center. Worse yet, the Electronic Privacy Information Center found evidence that the federal government was the force behind this effort. So Missouri's bill is the only real chance for oversight over a fusion center. Maybe it will set a precedent.
If anyone wants to send a letter to the Commitee, here is the address:
Representative Bob Dixon
Interim House Committee on State Intelligence Analysis Oversight
Missouri House of Representatives
201 W. Capitol Ave.
Room 315
Jefferson City, MO 65101
or email to Bob.Dixon@house.mo.gov
Letters sent to the committee will become part of the record for the public hearings, according to Representative Dixon.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. ("I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"). Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 January 1787.