E-MAIL From: "ActForChange by Working Assets" Tell Congress: Fix Wiretapping Law

[L. Coyote]

29 Sep 2007 15:05:29 GMT
From: "ActForChange by Working Assets"
To: Los Coyotes
Subject: Tell Congress: Fix Wiretapping Law

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Urgent Alert!


Tell Congress: Stop Bush's Illegal Wiretapping Program
Hold Them Accountable!
http://actforchange.workingassets.com/campaign/fisa2/idukiuk90eed383?

Instead of holding the Bush Administration and big telecom companies accountable for warrantless wiretapping, Congress seems ready to retroactively excuse their illegal acts. That's wrong.
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This summer, Congress caved to the Bush administration, hastily approving a law that allows the wiretapping of American citizens without a warrant. The White House is now using "basket warrants" to listen in on any call based only on the administration's (not a judge's) "reasonable belief" that one of the parties is located overseas.

When the House and Senate allowed Bush to bully them into passing this bad law, it only approved it for six months. Now the administration is pressuring Congress to enshrine these powers into permanent law, without the sunset provisions that are currently in force.

To make matters worse, the legislation now being discussed in Congress would retroactively authorize violations of the wiretapping law in previous years, and grant blanket civil-lawsuit immunity to big telecom companies -- like Verizon and AT&T -- that helped the administration break the law.

Tell Congress you want stronger protections on your privacy -- not capitulation to the Bush Administration and big telecom companies.

Congress is going exactly the wrong way on this issue. Instead of standing up for the privacy rights enshrined in our Constitution and acting as a counterweight to the power-hungry neocons in this administration, they seem ready to roll over and capitulate. But we can stop them -- by letting them know we're paying very close attention to this issue.

Click here to tell Congress: No capitulation. Stand up for our rights.
http://actforchange.workingassets.com/campaign/fisa2/idukiuk90eed383?

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Will Easton, Manager
ActForChange.com/Working Assets

[rodeodance]

1. I will do it now!!

[rodeodance]

2. thanks for the post

[rodeodance]

3. and a big REC

[I Have A Dream]

4. Done. Thanks! (K&R) n/t

[williesgirl]

5. done and rec'd