Email Your Congressman--Go To Jail

You can get news anywhere! Today my post comes from the Huffington Post. Yes, it normally is not my ready source of information, however, today it struck a chord with me. You see there is this unemployed man in Philly who is upset that Congressman Jim Bunning of Kentucky is holding up the renewal of his unemployment checks. OK, we might disagree that extending unemployment is good or bad, however, our intrepid citizen emails the Congressman and, according to the article, gives him a piece of his mind. His reward is a visit from the FBI and now his has been indicted for "harassing" emails. It is obvious to me that he did not threaten the Congressman or he would have been charged with much more serious offenses.

So, has our country lost its collective senses. How can an email be harassing, even if he emailed it 550 times? (By the way, according to the article, he did not email that many times.) Do they not have delete buttons on their computers in Washington? Where do a citizen's free speech rights end when it comes to emails? What compromises "harassment?" If I disagree with my "representative" is that harassment? If so, we better start flying old Glory upside down for the Republic in danger.
Please go to the hyperlink and read the articel and tell me what you think.