Last Year in my country a law like this tried to be passed. Through everybody's effort, the citizens of this 3rd World hole managed to escape the nightmare that it would entail. (Note: Apparently, wikipedia thinks this is not the third world, but we all know wikipedia can't be trusted.)
Now, the US is trying to bring this nightmare onto their people. If you live in the US and you value your privacy, take action now. It might be too late tomorrow.
Spread the word. Tell everyone you know. And if you wish to place a button like the one ut supra, you can do so by pasting the following html code on your journal:
<a href="http://action.eff.org/fisa">
<img src="http://www.eff.org/images/homepage/stopbills.png"
alt="Stop the Surveillance Bills!" width="148" height="70" border="0" /></a>
The bill:
- Stacks the deck against anyone challenging illegal surveillance programs in court, sweeping legal challenges into the shadowy Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts.
- Guts long-standing statutory limits on secret surveillance by the government, threatening to make search warrants for national security wiretaps optional rather than mandatory.
- Permits even more dragnet surveillance, creating a secret approval process for electronic fishing expeditions that could sweep up the communications of millions of Americans.
Here's what the press is saying:
- Washington Post: "Mr. Specter's bill ... has been turned into a green light for domestic spying. It must not pass....This bill is not a compromise but a full-fledged capitulation on the part of the legislative branch to executive claims of power."
- Los Angeles Times: "[Specter's] compromise solution is too much of a compromise and not enough of a solution."
- New York Times: "The bill the president has agreed to accept would allow him to go on ignoring the eavesdropping law.... [The FISA court] is not the right court to make the determination [about the domestic spying program's constitutionality]."
Good luck. Fight for your rights.
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