Of course PBS will be counted as "partisan liberal" for putting on such a production.-- DrEyeBall

Indeed. PBS just cancelled a show describing the difference between moderate and fundamentalist Muslims. Dhimmitude reigns. Without a doubt PBS considers Bush a greater threat than suicide bombers. At least until another attack occurs.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=95d4dfdb-81b9-4f7b-8eb4-80e32c34db4c&headline=Deroy+Murdock%3a+PBS+refuses+to+air+film+on+Islam

...Perk up real quick when they realize BushCo is using these powers to spy on....Democrats.

Bush & Cheney have told us over & over that casting a vote for a Democrat is the same as voting for a terrorist.

They've made no bones about it: Democrat (or Democrat supporter)=terrorist.

Therefore it's logical to conclude they are, even as I type this, spying on both Democratic politicans & citizens who support Democrats.

Speaking of anemic national media.......there is the AT&T whistleblower, Mark Klein, that very few have even heard of or care to seriously report on.

There is a lot in the Frontline program on Klein's discoveries, and the lengths to which EPIC has gone to verify their credibility. As you say, though, as extraordinary as that case is, it has largely been ignored.

You mention in your post that you "met with the program's producer, Rick Young, as they were identifying the issues they wanted to cover." Now don't be modest -- are you in/quoted in the documentary?

Knowing how lazy, incompetent and/or corrupt many local police departments are here, giving them this kind of unchecked power is frightening and gives me the willies

By what magical process do we assume that the same adjectives don't apply to Federal officials?

...there is the AT&T whistleblower, Mark Klein, that very few have even heard of or care to seriously report on.

I think it would make people everywhere warma nd fuzzy to realize just how truly patriotic **smirk** our telcos truly are.

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.

I don't know if you saw it, but I saw Bush admit that he had ordered wiretaps without consulting the FISA Court. Saw it on TeeVee. My God, Pelosi, the shithead admitted it on television. It's and Open and Shut case for impeachment. What could be the defense? "I thought I had a good reason to do it." Everyone who breaks the law thinks they have a good reason to do it. And if he says, "he had to; it was an emergency" then a) he's got to prove that in an open court called the US Senate, and b) even if they do, it doesn't mean anything because the FISA law allows the government to wiretap suspects IMMEDIATELY and then seek approval ex post facto (the Gov has 48 hours to call the court into session but can act immediately if they feel the situation warrents it). What Bush did was to order wiretaps and then ignore the law and the court so that they could continue without oversight. That is a breech of the law. That is way more than a "misdemeanor." How could anyone be fed such a fat pitch and then, not only not hit it out of the ballpark, but refuse to even swing at it?

The RI state police want expanded powers with proposed new legislation before the RI House and Senate that would let them obtain resident's phone and Internet records without court review, as reported today. The bills would let the state police, along with the chief of police of a city or town and the attorney general to issue "administrative subpoenas" that would compel communication companies to hand over records. Knowing how lazy, incompetent and/or corrupt many local police departments are here, giving them this kind of unchecked power is frightening and gives me the willies.

They tried passing a similar bill last year and it caused such an uproar that it died. But they're back. It shows that they will not give up until our rights are thoroughly degraded.

Obviously the state police got the the idea and encouragement from seeing what has been accomplished at the Federal level. You could say this is a novel form of "trickle down."

I just thank you for ending the torture session at the weekend's long wait for a new thought.

In your second paragraph, you said you were "enthused." Yes.

Enthused is a beautiful condition. en-Theo's. And a human can't be anything without those good 'ole down to Earth, natural rhythms and motions.

Nat'a'da'tura! Firmament, firm, solid, and real down earthen, tooting, and beautiful...Nature...enthral harmony...a good birth natural rhythms system. That's doing our bustiest, and sharing the moistest sannum, Supreme Good. It's these very important things...you don't wince our eyes away. Look...

...maybe no more from me-even...That's even if a chop at the bridal bits, stirrups, and rip off a horse-shoe or chew on leather reigns, or chomp and gnaw on a horse's hoof...I'll eat a horseshoe for everybody when I'm hungry today...okay.

Let's be serious and not eat a whole horse's arse- or, a stale cold loaf of crusty burnt bread, or a rubber tire inner-Tube. B- for burp.

That's my enthused compliment.