Senator Boxer,

I am writing to oppose any effort in the Senate, or in the Congress in general, to grant retroactive immunity to the telecoms for the illegal NSA wiretapping, to grant any powers to the government that do not amount to one target one warrant, and to oppose in general the kind of secret, cut the public out negotiations with the Administration that has gone on in the Senate Intelligence Committee on the subject of reforming FISA. Such secret negotiation, when the target is to shred the 4th amendment to the Constitution, is despicable, it's corrupt, and it's well nigh criminal.

I am putting you on notice: Not one dime to any Democratic campaign or campaign group, not one vote for any Democratic incumbent, until the Democrats in Washington start believing in representing their constituents. We have seen high hopes of an Iraq War end dashed, we have seen no progress on reigning in the imperial ambitions of this Administration, we have seen endless excuses on impeachment for heinous crimes like torture and lying to start wars. Now we are watching a free pass for lawbreaking with full support of Democrats. This will not stand.

I am also putting you on notice: I have downloaded instructions on placing recall petitions on the California ballot. I can, and I will file for removing both of our senators if they cannot distinguish right from wrong and end this undemocratic nightmare. I intend to follow through. You and Ms. Feinstein swore to uphold the Constitution not prostitute it's destruction to the highest bidder.

Your constituent,

On behalf of the ACLU, a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of activists and members and 53 affiliates nation-wide, we urge you to vote “no” when S. 2389, the Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act, comes to the floor. This bill may be considered on its own, or as part of S. 2178, the Consumer Telephone Record Protection Act. This legislation would pre-empt pending investigations in at least 10 states into whether telecommunications companies violated the privacy rights of their customers by providing sensitive personal information about their telephone calls to the National Security Agency.

http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/26909leg20060927.html

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This is dated 9/27/2006, and I don't yet know the final fate of the specific wording they are referring to, but I am not hopeful. I think the ultimate problem is a Supreme Court that accepts the idea that federal law alone can nullify state law.

had he had this congress, he would have been able to finish out his second term.

Like bamage, I also left a comment for Dodd. But perhaps your idea that voting for Glenn in the Bloggers Choice Awards is of little value, is a little hasty. Some people like me look over the blogs being voted on as a source for finding new blogs we weren’t aware of. I remind people about the voting so that we can provide more visibility to Glenn that he has so earned and deserves. Here’s the latest count. I hope you will reconsider and vote.

Best Political Blog

Glenn 77

Ann Coulter 82

Best Blog of All Time

Glenn 46

http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/

Nobody's in the mood for your bullshit today. This is serious, not a joke. If you had any brains you'd be scared too. Get lost.

-- Jordan Orlando

Well, well. Been upgraded to hall monitor have you? Not to worry, though. Your side of the aisle seemingly has to go through the occasional bout of hysteria as a cathartic, before returning to rationality. The idea that Google or the IRS knows more about us than the telecoms doesn't really matter in times like these. Enjoy.
Heh.

Or, he would have been the first wax president still named King Tricky Dick.

Hint. bark. tick.

No Dicks for Pres.

See the moon wax up.

In the Western sky!

Look at sunset time.

At long shadow, meander at the sunset time.

It was a Yellow Dog howl heaven last night.

Stuff Yellow Dog. Find a excellent taxidermist.

Yellow Dog is immortal. Long live the Yellow Dog.

lock stock and barrel.

they told you that if there are only two parties in Washington, that there was sufficient opposition to protect the people's rights. No need for third parties or oversight.

then they sold you sheeple down the pike.

the best part was 2006, when you thought the Democrats would change something.

I was prophetic when I said the week after 9/11, when the Dems got bullied into signing off on an unread document, the Patrot Act, that the American experiment was over and now it was time to sell off the parts. I did not know how right I was.

“No Dicks for Pres.”

Or for VP, or president’s cabinet and team, or congress, or Supreme Court. I can dream can’t I?

He has instituted a police state in front of everyone's faces while weaving and dancing that her was protecting you.

He is selling off parts of the USA to foreign nations

He has managed to allow the borders to remain open to create plausible deniability the next time the government wants to set off a dirty bomb in a US city to impose the next set of police state tactics.

He has reduced the value of the dollar. Enraged the world against America. All valuable when inevitably the beast must be taken down so the foreign banks can come in and buy everything for pennies on the dollar while the average American goes bankrupt.

Bush has been an incredibly successful president, from the viewpoint of the international elites.

If you haven't done anything wrong, you need fear nothing in a court of law!

Amnesty has as a predicate assumption "wrong-doing".

This needs to be screamed loud and long.

Sincerely,

But truly depressing. I was just discussing the sorry state of our country last night, and I identified the innevitable FISA cave as a step in the wrong direction so enormous that once passed, it would be difficult for the US to ever move back towards a constitutional republic. Of course, we should be used to such points of no return - we have certainly witnessed many a plunge over the brink since 2001.

So few Americans today are able to grasp the significance of such un-american legislation - I can only imagine what the future will bring. Just think of when moments like this (and so many others throughout the past 6 years) are cited as precedent for further dismantling of the Constitution.

If the path is not reversed soon, there will be no going back. I fear it is already late in the day for hope.