"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."
~ President Thomas Jefferson
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URGENT: Oppose Telecom Immunity and Contact Your Senator
From Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Sunday, January 27, 2008 It's time to contact your Senators once again. As early as Monday, the Administration and its allies are trying to end Senate debate on FISA and telecom immunity and force a vote on the Senate Intelligence Committee's bill -- a bill that would broadly expand the executive branch's spying powers while granting immunity to telecoms that broke the law and assisted in the NSA's illegal domestic spying. Now is the time to urge your Senators to vote NO on "cloture" to keep the debate going! Every time you've taken action to fight against immunity, it's made a huge difference. In November, your calls and emails helped to ensure that the Senate Judiciary Committee did not include telecom amnesty in its surveillance bill, and in December your calls and emails helped convince Harry Reid to delay the vote until January. Both times, the pundits assumed we didn't stand a chance, and both times we proved them wrong. It's time to beat the odds again. RELATED: Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold On Republican Obstructionism on Fixing FISA Read More [ permalink ] |
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ACLU: Bush's wiretap bill violates Fourth Amendment
From RAW STORY - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 By Adam Doster The Senate plans to take up legislation as early as this week to rein in the Bush Administration's spying powers by reforming the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), says that when Congress rushed through wiretapping legislation this past August, they made a grave mistake. "The Administration bill basically writes August's mistake in stone," she wrote in a press release Tuesday. "It does nothing to protect Americans' communications and violates the Fourth Amendment requirement that courts supervise any spying on American soil." "The surveillance program began in February of 2001. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the attacks of 9/11. These phone companies are cooperating with the government, not out of a sense of patriotism, but because they're being paid to do so. They're profiteers, not patriots. "If the Congress grants these companies retroactive immunity it will mean they have no regard for the rule of law they took an oath to uphold. I've taken no oaths. The rule of law will mean absolutely nothing to me if this comes to pass." -- A comment from a Digg.com user Tags: aclu, fisa, nsa, surveillance, wiretapping Read More [ permalink ] |
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Bush Administration has more Spying Powers than first believed
From The Raw Story - Saturday, August 18, 2007 By Adam Doster Intelligence legislation passed earlier this month is angering a growing number of critics who say an end-of-session scramble inadvertently gave the Bush Administration wider spying powers than previously thought. According to Eric Lichtblau and James Risen of the New York Times, "by redefining the meaning of 'electronic surveillance,' the new law narrows the types of communications covered in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, by indirectly giving the government the power to use intelligence collection methods far beyond wiretapping that previously required court approval if conducted inside the United States." Read More [ permalink ] |
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EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED - Constitutional Crisis (video)
From TUMC Seattle - Tuesday, August 7, 2007 EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED - Constitutional Crisis IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE HELP disseminate this information TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! WATCH THIS VIDEO ON THE INTERNET, ONLY on Thursday, August 9, 2007, at 10:00 pm PACIFIC time. The video from the emergency meeting that was held in Seattle, Washington on Wednesday, August 1st, will be shown on Seattle's Local Public Access Channel, SCANTV.ORG, ONLY on Thursday, August 9, 2007, at 10:00 pm PACIFIC time on cable channel 77. If you check the schedule the show will be aired during the time slot labeled "Social Justice Television (Political), Length: 0:58" If you will read these two articles, you will understand this issue is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE! "Once this (latest Bush Executive Order) becomes law, he has all the tools Hitler and Stalin had to keep their respective populations in utter subjection to their will." Read the complete article: 30 days to absolute tyranny ...EVEN LESS TIME NOW!!! WE DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME written by Rev. Rich Lang of the Trinity United Methodist Church. Rev. Rich Lang is one of the speakers featured in the video! The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 elections A powerful Senate committee wants government regulators to find cutting edge technologies that can censor audio and video that flows over the internet -- bye, bye investigative reporting by alternative media and this web page you are now reading, also! "First they came for the terrorists but I wasn't a terrorist so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then they came for those suspected of terrorism, but I certainly wasn't a suspect so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then they came for those who defended those who were suspected of terrorism, but I wasn't defending such people so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then, one day, they came and began to "suspect" me, so I stayed very, very silent and went about my business. And that is how I lost my soul." Here is more information about these issues: Friday, July 20, 2007 JEFF KOSSEFF The Oregonian Staff -- Source: The Oregonian WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED. "I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio says. Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't know who did it or why. "We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America," DeFazio says. "I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee." Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive." Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he "cannot think of one good reason" to deny access to a member of Congress who serves on the Homeland Security Committee. "I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual, knee-jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White House," Ornstein said. This is the first time DeFazio has been denied access to documents. DeFazio has asked Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to help him access the documents. "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said. LA Cops attack crowd - specifically smash every camera they find - but they don't get them all Cops shoot protester in the head with a rubber bullet - then laugh about it (until the video gets out) Cheney Determined To Strike In US With WMD This Summer US Police State: Congress Approves Extensive Wiretapping Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html The outrageous gutting of FISA-- the foreign intelligence surveillance act. And by "foreign" they now mean domestic. Because if you are inside the US making an international call, the government can now monitor that call with only the approval of Alberto Gonzales, the Torture Guy. Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran? We ARE In A Constitutional Crisis lord bush Read More [ permalink ] |
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Bush: 'Time is Short' - President Bush asks Congress to stay in session until FISA bill is passed.
From Yahoo! News - Friday, August 3, 2007 Click 'Read More' to watch the video. Time is short alright! Time is running out for Bush and his criminal administration! I wonder what is so important about passing the FISA bill? Hmm.... Notice in the video all Bush's cronies are gathered around him! Read More [ permalink ] |
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Federal Court Strikes Down NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Thursday, August 17, 2006 DETROIT -- In an American Civil Liberties Union case, a federal court today ruled that the Bush administration's program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional and must be stopped. This is the first ruling by a federal court to strike down the controversial National Security Agency surveillance program. "Today's ruling is a landmark victory against the abuse of power that has become the hallmark of the Bush administration," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "Government spying on innocent Americans without any kind of warrant and without Congressional approval runs counter to the very foundations of our democracy. Now Congress needs to do its job and stop the president from violating the law." Today's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor agreed with the ACLU that the NSA program violates Americans' rights to free speech and privacy under the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, and runs counter to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed by Congress. Judge Taylor also rejected the government's argument that the case could not proceed because of state secrets, saying that facts about NSA wiretapping have already been conceded by the government. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Does the White House NSA defense come from John Mitchell?
Friday, March 31, 2006 By Glenn Greenwald Among the witnesses testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on Sen. Feingold's Censure Resolution is former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean. Dean has frequently compared the abuses of the Bush Administration generally to those of the Nixon Administration, and has specifically compared the illegal eavesdropping activities of the two Administrations. While we know that the eavesdropping ordered by President Bush is exactly the eavesdropping which FISA makes it a criminal offense to engage in, we do not yet know -- thanks to the frenzied efforts of Bush defenders to suppress any and all investigations into the Administration's eavesdropping activities -- the nature and extent of Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program. We do not, for instance, know which Americans were eavesdropped on, how many Americans were subject to this illegal surveillance, how it was determined who would be eavesdropped on, what was done with the information, whether purely innocent Americans had their communications intercepted without judicial approval, etc. Read More [ permalink ] |
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