RED, WHITE AND VERY BLUE

RED WHITE AND VERY BLUE IS THE FEELING YOU GET WHEN LAWMAKERS BLOW, When They Blow in the Wind Blowing Over From LONDON, When Times Are Tough and Lawmakers Bend at The Knee to a False “Security” Rather Than Stand for Liberty. The SENATE extended some troubling provisions of the PATRIOT ACT, but not for as long as the HOUSE. Differences between the HOUSE BILL and SENATE VERSION will be resolved in CONFERENCE. With all the bluster that blows now, someone should explain how all the intrusions of SECTION 215 square with the FOURTH AMENDMENT to the United States Constitution. Plain and simple, no matter what your lawmakers do in times of blowing winds, what they do now is unconstitutional in conception and all too righteous in its deception.

All is not lost, no matter how much our "leaders" have lost it in taking us down this dubious path. Senate and House have still to meet in conference before a bill can go before Bush to make his mark.  There is still time for citizens to be heard.  So get in touch with your leaders who have lost touch.

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[PINKO FEMINIST HELLCAT]  "We should not be required to live in peacetime under the extraordinary laws that were passed during times of war and crisis. Emergency powers of investigation should not become the standard once the crisis has passed," he [Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California] said, drawing applause from his colleagues.
This is exactly what Big Daddy Government Suit is trying to do. Keep the sense of crisis up, the sense up panic up to red. That way we can stand for human rights by ignoring them, fight for democracy by supporting anti-democratic governments, and fight for freedom by destroying it.

[SOCIATAS] I have no objections to political junkies getting their fix. But now would be a good time to take brief break from bingeing. Your country really does need you. Chances are, to be brutally honest, nothing you do over the next few days will make a huge difference either way with Rove or Roberts–not unless you have access to information that even Patrick Fitzgerald or the White House does not. But you can make a huge difference–as a citizen and as blogger–with the Patriot Act

[SEEING THE FOREST] A tad on the rude side, but Sociatus is spot on. This is the real battle and we've been flanked by the wingnuts. It's time to get a move on.

[BILLMON] In some cases, deliberations on Patriot Act renewal themselves have been classified, and closed to both the public and the press. More grist for the Orwellian mill.
I'm not sure when these constitutional abominations are supposed to reach the House and Senate floors. But Sociatas is urging people to contact their elected "representatives" (I can think of some better words) as soon as possible. He includes links to a couple of ACLU pages that allow you to email or look up the phone number for your Senator or People's Deputy.

MORE TO FOLLOW  . . .

 

Comments

[Night Bird]

Morning Heretik! How is the peak, have you got the router yet?? I have one - can we visit?

I would definitely agree with your last paragraph. Sadly enough many have bought that ticket. Not I Sir, I know exactly what happened since bushka stole the election of 2000.

As I said once...the weekend after 9/11 I opened up my home, a house on hill in the country to New Yorkers that needed to get out of the seiged city. The following Monday I went down to the city and witnessed the sad state of my city. I went to the West Side Drive and gave out sandwiches and water to the workers.

I visited a firehouse that lost 3 fire fighters and my daughter noticed that the fire truck was not in the station. It was a sad time, but a time that reinforced me. Two years later the repugs did it all again. I believe many more people were reinforced then too.

Londoners are the latest victims of the fear factor!

[Aaron]

The reprioritization of America.

Defeating the terrorists, priority one, all other priorities rescinded.

Priorities like free speech, free association and expression and freedom of the press, privacy etc.

The underlying goal of Islamic fundamentalism and the terrorists following their precepts are to put an end to free liberal societies.

We shouldn't be helping them along.

[Ol Cranky]

it's quite the bloody and mccarthyesque coup the bushies have enacted, let's just hpe people wake up in time to try to get back some control in the mid-terms - or will we lose the right to vote before then?

[grannyinsanity]

What is to be effective now?

Do we march naked into our local FBI offices carrying index cards noting everything we eat and read?

Clearly privacy has become the sole domain of the executive branch and their corporate cohorts.

[grannyinsanity]

Another really important thing that has fallen to the wayside is the BLM's plans to open Alaska's wilderness area to oil and gas drilling as well as hard rock mining.

The comment period is over on Thursday the 28th.

more info here:

http://www.leaveitwild.org/