It is imperative that we keep the heat on Obama about his capitulation on FISA. For those of you not familiar with this issue, FISA stands for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Recently the Dems in the House rolled over and gave the neo-cons and their buddies in the phone companies everything they wanted. If the current FISA bill passes the Senate without any changes it will be a disaster to all we hold dear - the right to free speech. Obama has voiced his support for the bill as passed by the House. I know what you are thinking - this bill does not prohibit free speech, but in a manner of speaking it does. It gives the government free reign to monitor any and all communications we may make with our friends and neighbors in other countries and in some cases in this country. If having the threat of what you say or write via the internet or over the ether net overheard and recorded by government agencies that think nothing of grabbing innocent citizens off of the streets and making them disappear, is not a deterrent to free speech, I don't know what is.
In addition to increased surveillance this bill would grant complete immunity to ALL phone companies that had an hand in illegal surveillance of it's customers. Obama thinks this is okay. We MUST keep the heat on him about this. It was announced today that this bill will not be voted on by the Senate until the 8th of July. Please go the Obama's web site and urge him to change his mind about this. In my opinion this decision by him is a serious breach of faith with his core progressive supporters.
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