Thursday, June 18, 2009

URGENT ACTION ALERT - stop missile defense cuts!

I somehow lost this in my spam filter,, my apologies for the lateness on this.

And the phone number for Rep. Bright is corrected in this post,,

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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
ALERT!!


CONGRESS IS ABOUT TO CUT OUR NATION’S
MISSILE
DEFENSE PROTECTIONS – LEAVING US
MORE VULNERABLE TO A NUCLEAR MISSILE

ATTACK.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TODAY!!

by Lisa Piraneo, Director of Government Relations



Dear Solstice,

PLEASE CAREFULLY READ
THIS URGENT LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT AND PASS IT ON TO EVERYONE YOU
KNOW!


This Legislative Action Alert is the first of two
that you will be receiving this week. They both are regarding an extremely
important issue – Missile Defense – especially in light of the ongoing
news out of North Korea and Iran. They both are regarding legislative
action that is currently taking place in the U.S. Congress. Please be sure
to read each Alert carefully and to do your part to ensure that our nation
is protected against the threat of a nuclear missile attack.

As
the Obama administration proposes cutting missile defense spending – and
thus additional missile defense deployment – Iran and North Korea are
responding to President Obama’s various “olive branches” by moving full
speed ahead with their nuclear programs.

The most recent example
of this was just a few weeks ago, when North Korea launched a Taepo-dong 2
missile on June 4th, which entered Japanese airspace. According
to military analysts, Taepo-dong 2 missiles have the capability to reach
Alaska, Hawaii, or the Western United States. Since that launch North
Korea conducted an underground nuclear weapon test of a bomb the size of
the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima. And just last Friday, Fox News reported
that “U.S. intelligence officials have warned President Obama and other
senior American officials that North Korea intends to respond to the
looming passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution this week –
condemning the communist country for its recent nuclear and ballistic
missile tests – with another nuclear test.”

Iran continues full
speed ahead with its drive to develop nuclear weapons. What’s more, the
type of missile launch testing Iran has been conducting indicates that
Iran is fully aware of the impact an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack
would have on the United States electrical power grid, and is planning and
preparing accordingly.

The good news is we can protect our
nation by developing comprehensive missile defense systems to intercept
and eliminate nuclear missiles targeted at us. A robust missile defense
could save thousands, if not millions of American lives. Indeed, the very
presence of a robust missile defense system would likely deter countries
like Iran and North Korea from ever launching a nuclear missile against
us.

The unbelievable news is that at this very critical
moment for America’s national security, the Obama Administration and many
in Congress appear intent to cut $1.4 billion from the very program that
is designed to protect us! This is a crippling cut to this program, and
with all the billions our government is throwing at one bailout after
another, we shake our heads in disbelief at this shortsightedness.



This is why we need your help and we need
it NOW, because without your help, these cuts to our missile defense
program WILL happen. Make no mistake about it. Your voice will
count.


This week, the House Armed Services Committee
will be working on H.R. 2647, the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2010. Unfortunately, funding for our nation’s missile defense
system is on the chopping block. The Committee is expected to vote on
missile defense funding levels
TOMORROW, Tuesday, June
16th
. Therefore, it is critical that a handful of
Members who sit on this important Committee hear from our members all
across the country TODAY!



THE FOLLOWING ACTION IS
NEEDED FROM YOU, OUR ACT! FOR
AMERICA GRASSROOTS
ADVOCATE!


Below are 11 influential
members of Congress who serve on the House Armed Services Committee and
who NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. Please, take just a few minutes out of your day
TODAY to call as many of these Representatives as you can, and
respectfully but with resolve, tell them:


  • Congress must restore the cuts to missile defense
    and fully fund our nation’s missile defense program.

  • The threat from Iran and North Korea is real and
    imminent
    .

  • The need for America to defend her people hasn’t changed
    and it is our elected leaders’ constitutional responsibility to
    keep us safe.

Even if you only have the time
to call one of these Members of Congress, please make your call TODAY and
say:
“Please support any amendment to the Defense Bill that
restores funds for Ballistic Missile Defense – especially ones that help
the GMD system. This system protects the homeland from North Korean and
Iranian Ballistic Missiles.” These Members need to hear from you so
they’ll know there are thousands and thousands of Americans who are
concerned about congressional plans to make America more vulnerable to
nuclear missile attack!




































• Representative Bobby Bright (AL)

202-225-2901


• Representative Silvestre Reyes (TX)

202-225-4831


• Representative Gene Taylor (MS)

202-225-5772


• Representative Martin Heinrich (NM)

202-225-6316


• Representative Jim Cooper (TN)

202-225-4311


• Representative Gabrielle Giffords (AZ)

202-225-2542


• Representative Rick Larsen (WA)

202-225-2605


• Representative Frank Kratovil, Jr. (MD)

202-225-5311


• Representative Eric Massa (NY)

202-225-3161


• Representative Scott Murphy (NY)

202-225-5614


• Representative Dan Boren (OK) 202-225-2701



REMEMBER, YOUR VOICE
COUNTS!


IF EACH OF US DOES JUST A LITTLE, TOGETHER WE CAN

ACCOMPLISH A LOT!



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