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The re-affirmation of FISA is all to the good, but irrelevant to the real issue:
The assumption of unlimited totalitarian powers by the authoritarians in this maladministration.
To the Usurper and his cronies, "laws" passed by "Congress" are as bread and circuses thrown to the masses by an emperor - entertaining distractions signifying little and meaning even less.
The transformation of law enforcement into secret police that would put the Stasi to shame will not end with the departure of the Usurper or the election of a Democratic president. It will not end until a substantial majority of Americans are confronted with evidence of their own secrets being pawed over by a bunch of drooling and giggling agents.
And since we no longer have a press that will do that job, it falls to patriotic hackers to literally risk their lives and break into the FBI's and the CIA's and the DEA's and the Border Patrol's and the ATF's and all of Homeland Insecurity's computers, drag out every unconstitutionally collected byte and post it all on the web.
Only desperate measures will suffice.
