Are you a fan of letting companies break the law and violate your privacy with impunity — just because the President told them to “shut up and be cool”?**
Chances are — your Congressperson is…and TODAY they’ll vote to give the people who’ve been selling us all out a “Get Out of Jail Free” card. If they cut off our access to the courts, we’ll never truly get to the bottom of how our own government has been surveilling us. Check and Balances will become just checks — blank ones that the Executive Branch can write without having to open the books to the rest of us.
Go to Stop The Spying as soon as you can.
You’ll be able to look up your representative’s position on the pending Bill and get their phone number or email address to contact them.
My suggestion: Tell ‘em you’ll give them a “Get Out Of Office Free” card if they let these guys off the hook.
UPDATE from EFF.ORG:
“The FISA Amendments Act, H.R. 6304, which House Leadership rushed to the floor today after its introduction yesterday, passed by a vote of 293 to 129. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill next week.”
What do you mean that the Democrats are an enormous bunch of feckless pussies? Don’t you think that it takes guts to roll over for a President that has set a new standard for incompetence and corporate servility?
Check the links anyway to find out how to try to stop this in the Senate before the whole shindig is over for good.
And by “Shindig”, I mean “Democracy”.
** This is a technical term relating to Telecommunicaions Law that I don’t expect you to understand
