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speech
07-01-2008, 05:28 PM
While the Senate was ready to vote on the FISA Amendments Act today, Senators Russell Feingold and Christopher Dodd fought to keep them from casting a final vote and jamming the bill through Congress.

In a statement released by Feingold, he says:

"I am pleased we were able to delay the vote on FISA until after the July 4th holiday instead of having it jammed through. I hope that over the July 4th Holiday, Senators will take a closer look at the deeply flawed legislation and understand how it threatens the civil liberties of the American People. It is possibly to protect this country against the terrorists while also protecting the rights and freedoms that define our nation."

For those who haven't read up on the new FISA bill, it would basically give the government the right to peek into the private overseas phone conversations, emails, and even text messages of all Americans. Part of the bill would give retroactive immunity to telephone companies that gave the government private information of Americans.
http://waronyou.com/forums/index.php?topic=415.msg1118#msg1118

Kalifornia
07-01-2008, 05:31 PM
While the Senate was ready to vote on the FISA Amendments Act today, Senators Russell Feingold and Christopher Dodd fought to keep them from casting a final vote and jamming the bill through Congress.

In a statement released by Feingold, he says:

"I am pleased we were able to delay the vote on FISA until after the July 4th holiday instead of having it jammed through. I hope that over the July 4th Holiday, Senators will take a closer look at the deeply flawed legislation and understand how it threatens the civil liberties of the American People. It is possibly to protect this country against the terrorists while also protecting the rights and freedoms that define our nation."

For those who haven't read up on the new FISA bill, it would basically give the government the right to peek into the private overseas phone conversations, emails, and even text messages of all Americans. Part of the bill would give retroactive immunity to telephone companies that gave the government private information of Americans.
http://waronyou.com/forums/index.php?topic=415.msg1118#msg1118


I hate to ever say thank god for a Democrat, as both Dodd and Feingold are deeply flawed flaming assholes, but... thank god for a Democrat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxKYG6KTK-M

ronpaulblogsdotcom
07-01-2008, 05:57 PM
This bill worries me immensely. Ex Post Facto laws are evil. This is an ex post facto law.

This is the slide into tyranny that we are so afraid of. And the list of people that voted for this is amazing. How come crap bills like this almost always win easily?

Homegrown Terrorist was almost unanimous.

And almost every Representative voted for FISA. If you know what I mean....