Take your NDAA and shove it.

Dear Senators Boxer and Feinstein,
As the climate in this nation continues to grow more and more oppressive and hostile, I find the legislation posed in sections 1031 and 1032 of the National Defense Authorization Act to be a complete affront to American principles.
This government's blatant and disgusting disregard for a citizen's right to express dissatisfaction with their government has been more than apparent in the nationally coordinated and frequently violent and illegal arrests of concerned citizens participating in the Occupy movement. With the recent deliberation of H.R. 3261 in the House regarding internet censorship, it would seem that the U.S. government is making it easier to suppress the voice of the very people it was meant to represent.
I am a college student, and I generally find myself on the conservative side of many of my peers, but as a witness to the violent beating of my fellow students during our peaceful protest of tuition hikes at UC Berkeley, I have come to realize that the world I am about to step into is nothing like the world my forefathers imagined into existence in the 18th century. It is heartbreaking to watch this government overtly crush foundational American sentiments such as the right to speak out against the wrongdoings of one's own State...but as history has shown us, the revolutionary always comes to occupy the role of the oppressor. American revolutionaries were killed by British soldiers when they sought to speak out against a government that denied them their basic liberties. I think our forefathers would be horrified to see the awful, decrepit mutation of our founding fathers' dreams that stares back from section 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA.
I have been a loyal supporter of yours for the ten years of my voting life, and I hope that you will please consider my voice when you cast your vote. A month ago, I was just a student trying to finish her degree. Thanks to the shocking police brutality and the conspicuous denial of first amendment rights that I have witnessed firsthand on the campus of UC Berkeley, I will remain forever vigilant of the threat to my rights by a country that I love with my whole heart. I study rhetoric at Cal, which means that my whole life is dedicated to studying the soundness of arguments and the guiding philosophies behind texts and behaviors. I cannot stand by while the country I love becomes a horrible, mutated contradiction of the original American vision. I implore you, please oppose this ridiculous bill.
Thank you so much for your time.