Surrendering
It's not a compromise bill,
its a compromised bill!
It looks like the telecoms are going to get immunity. It is an action that speaks louder than any words from either party. Much like embracing torture as a fun way to conduct ourselves, something at odds with the foundations of our nation. We are no longer a nation of law, but of fear and power. The telecoms get a free ticket for knowingly breaking the law, because it wasn't really their fault the administration broke the law in asking them to abet. Such alibis would not work for you and I.
Alibi 1, "the decider told us to": If our boss asked us to do something illegal we'd still go to jail. They probably wouldn't. So the telecoms are getting a free ride that citizens never would.
Alibi 2, "the decider is above the law": We'd never get this kind of dispensation, even though in theory our elected officials should be more beholden to the law of the land than we are. So the president is not subject to the laws he is sworn to uphold against us.
Telecoms spying. Torture, in house and outsourced. Cooking intelligence. Etc.
It seems everything which has tarnished our democracy and reputation is initiated by scum who believe they are above the law and carried out by avaricious scum who either blindly follow or lead the pres by the nose.
PS - And now Obama is supporting the FISA bill? Please say it ain't so -- it is the very type of criminal assault on the law of the land that will drive me to a third party, particularly if the virtual pardon granting telecom immunity is included. On the up side, this kind of behavior has a slim chance of creating a viable third party candidate -- though the republicrats/democans/liebercrats would be united in their efforts to create additional third party candidates for diluting the power of the disaffected if anyone became an actual threat.
PSS - Obama may have just saved the republican party.
its a compromised bill!
It looks like the telecoms are going to get immunity. It is an action that speaks louder than any words from either party. Much like embracing torture as a fun way to conduct ourselves, something at odds with the foundations of our nation. We are no longer a nation of law, but of fear and power. The telecoms get a free ticket for knowingly breaking the law, because it wasn't really their fault the administration broke the law in asking them to abet. Such alibis would not work for you and I.
Alibi 1, "the decider told us to": If our boss asked us to do something illegal we'd still go to jail. They probably wouldn't. So the telecoms are getting a free ride that citizens never would.
Alibi 2, "the decider is above the law": We'd never get this kind of dispensation, even though in theory our elected officials should be more beholden to the law of the land than we are. So the president is not subject to the laws he is sworn to uphold against us.
Telecoms spying. Torture, in house and outsourced. Cooking intelligence. Etc.
It seems everything which has tarnished our democracy and reputation is initiated by scum who believe they are above the law and carried out by avaricious scum who either blindly follow or lead the pres by the nose.
PS - And now Obama is supporting the FISA bill? Please say it ain't so -- it is the very type of criminal assault on the law of the land that will drive me to a third party, particularly if the virtual pardon granting telecom immunity is included. On the up side, this kind of behavior has a slim chance of creating a viable third party candidate -- though the republicrats/democans/liebercrats would be united in their efforts to create additional third party candidates for diluting the power of the disaffected if anyone became an actual threat.
PSS - Obama may have just saved the republican party.
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Bastards. Pelosi, Reid, and crew should be ashamed of themselves. I've been ragging on the Democrats since before the 2000 election and in the past 8 years they've only proved my worst fears correct. But this tops it all.
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