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Ask your senator to vote against HR 6304 (right now please. thanx)
To quote Novapsyche's post, there is still time to call your Senators regarding the capitulation on FISA (aka, the evisceration of the 4th Amendment).
The bill is H.R. 6304 and i have seen it described as a confirmation of the legal king model of government since it basically protects people (in this case, telecommunication companies) from being prosecuted for illegal activities because the president asked them to do them.
I would prefer to live in a country where presidential fiat does not make it ok for people to break the law, especially regarding the privacy of citizens, and in order for that to be true, we need to defeat this bill. please call your senator now.
The bill is H.R. 6304 and i have seen it described as a confirmation of the legal king model of government since it basically protects people (in this case, telecommunication companies) from being prosecuted for illegal activities because the president asked them to do them.
I would prefer to live in a country where presidential fiat does not make it ok for people to break the law, especially regarding the privacy of citizens, and in order for that to be true, we need to defeat this bill. please call your senator now.
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(big nod in agreement). Locking people up at Gitmo as illegal combatants in the War on Terror comes to mind. To me, it's like the War on Bank Robbery. As long as there are banks, there will be robberies, and we can't just lock up bank robbers permanently, if that's how you define when to start letting out illegal combatants. For one big thing, there are probably thousands of terrorists and terrorist groups, each with their own individual goal, and many of whose goals are in absolute conflict with each other. Unless human nature changes, that'll never change, which is sad but true.