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Bush About to Sign A New Wiretap Bill. I'm Angered About This.

You may have noticed in the recent news that the House of Representatives and the Senate had approved rewriting the FISA bill (Foreign Intelligence Surveilance Act), which protects phone companies from lawsuits for warrantless eavesdropping on phone lines. This, the proponents of the bill said, was a safeguard against another possible terrorist attack.
Not only is unconstitutional, but it would be saying that if we have shredded the constitution before the 9/11, we would have protected ourselves from the terrorist attack. Bullsh#t! Is spying on millions of American citizens part of defending against terrorism? F@ck no!
You may know that the term "terrorism" is used around debates a lot to generate fear and to justify passing bills like the FISA in 2001. It's not the first time that our government had used fear to justify some of its unconstitutional actions. Remember when Franklin D. Roosevelt justified rounding up and putting the Japaneese American citizens in internment camps for the "fear" that they would betray United States? It was totally unnecessary and it violated civil rights of America's particular group of citizens.
Benjamin Franklin once said that, "Those who sacrifice their liberty for security deserve neither."
I say that Bush take that bill shove it up his ass.. all the way up.

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Permalink Reply by PREÐATOR on July 10, 2008 at 1:06pm: America, Fuck Yeah!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Q on July 10, 2008 at 1:10pm: I love this country.

If McCain takes over, I wonder which bill he'll sign next... The one that allows him to put cameras in the toilet seats of a woman's bathroom? You know, so he can make sure that "terrorists" aren't hiding semtex up their vaginas.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on July 10, 2008 at 1:22pm: Senator Craig opposes the idea of cameras in bathrooms.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu on July 10, 2008 at 1:19pm: This really begs the question . . . does the goverment really think terrorists are stupid enough to do their business over the phone?

But I guess it beats their old method of using super secret code (code legend included with note) in invisible magic marker.

Oh, no, wait . . . I was thinking of Bush's notes to Congress. My bad.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eric on July 10, 2008 at 1:21pm: Bush is such a douche bag, I can't wait until he's out of office.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by DerekD on July 10, 2008 at 1:25pm: Amen, i see a great future for the mail coach but not a reduction of terror. Beside Bush infected the whole world with his stupid bill; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Grim on July 10, 2008 at 1:28pm: I think I'm more angry about the bill giving Bush immunity from being tried for war crimes.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rorschach on July 10, 2008 at 2:41pm: I don't get what's all this fuss about. I say we all should be treated like prison inmates by the US government. At least we'd all be safe. I mean we all know how safe prisons are, am I right?

...oh...nevermind; ▶ Reply to This