My Letter to Congress: H.R.1981 Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 
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February 21, 2012
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H.R.1981 Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011.
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Sen. Carl Levin [D, MI] Vote on Passage of H.R.1981: Not Voted Yet -
Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI] Vote on Passage of H.R.1981: Not Voted Yet -
Rep. Justin Amash [R, MI-3] Vote on Passage of H.R.1981: Not Voted Yet
H.R.1981 Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011
I am writing as your constituent in the 3rd Congressional district of Michigan. I oppose H.R.1981 - Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
Listen, this is ridiculous. Representative Lamar Smith is forwarding heavy-handed, overreaching, poorly designed, inadequately overseen, unbalanced, irrational, reactionary, and ineffective bills. I wish I could say that I was surprised, but honestly, after the SOPA/PIPA debacle, all I can manage is disappointed. And deeply annoyed. And oh, look! This revoltingly intrusive piece of legislation is based entirely around an appeal to emotion. AND OH, LOOK. It even includes a thought-terminating cliché IN THE TITLE.
Look, this kind of nonsense has to stop. Stop employing BASIC LOGICAL FALLACIES in lawmaking. It's one thing when politicians use them on the election circuit. It's another level of vile when it penetrates the actual legal language.
OpenCongress informs me that none of you (and by you, I mean my representatives) are cosponsors of this bill. Well done, and thank you. I also see that none of you have voted on it as yet. You will be unsurprised to learn that I strongly encourage you to vote against it. Please, by all means-- feel free to legislate against child pornographers if the current legislation is insufficient! (Regular, legal pornographers, please leave alone.) But don't use overwrought, fallacious language to do it, and don't infringe on what little privacy remains to me in the process.
Sincerely,
Alanna McGuire
Listen, this is ridiculous. Representative Lamar Smith is forwarding heavy-handed, overreaching, poorly designed, inadequately overseen, unbalanced, irrational, reactionary, and ineffective bills. I wish I could say that I was surprised, but honestly, after the SOPA/PIPA debacle, all I can manage is disappointed. And deeply annoyed. And oh, look! This revoltingly intrusive piece of legislation is based entirely around an appeal to emotion. AND OH, LOOK. It even includes a thought-terminating cliché IN THE TITLE.
Look, this kind of nonsense has to stop. Stop employing BASIC LOGICAL FALLACIES in lawmaking. It's one thing when politicians use them on the election circuit. It's another level of vile when it penetrates the actual legal language.
OpenCongress informs me that none of you (and by you, I mean my representatives) are cosponsors of this bill. Well done, and thank you. I also see that none of you have voted on it as yet. You will be unsurprised to learn that I strongly encourage you to vote against it. Please, by all means-- feel free to legislate against child pornographers if the current legislation is insufficient! (Regular, legal pornographers, please leave alone.) But don't use overwrought, fallacious language to do it, and don't infringe on what little privacy remains to me in the process.
Sincerely,
Alanna McGuire
This letter was a reply from the office of Rep. Justin Amash [R, MI-3] on February 27, 2012.
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