Madam Speaker,

The Constitution has taken a beating under the Bush Administration, but we get the impression that Democratic politicians are cowards on these issues. Whenever some problem or perceived problem comes up, the default answer seems to be to take away constitutional rights.

This is lazy thinking. Who do you know that has taken any serious look at how to preserve our rights to privacy and freedom from government invasion of our lives while still seeing to legitimate law enforcement and national security interests? The answer always seems to be how much we can cut corners on our rights or how much we can compromise away.

It's time someone took a look at the problem from the viewpoint of modern methods and technologies to determine how to take care of those security needs while enhancing and maintaining our rights to privacy and personal integrity.

Will you personally make sure that Congress starts the process of looking for ways to enhance our rights as individual citizens? This should be a task force or a committee assignment to go look at the architecture of the security apparatus and recommend ways to make it conform more closely with the spirit and intent of the First, Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Ninth Amendment, and generally the philosophy of Western Civilization on the rights of individuals and minorities?