Last week, a district court in Michigan delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush Administration and N

the judge found that the program violates both the First and Fourth Amendments to our U.S. Constitution

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Last week, a district court in Michigan delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush Administration and National Security Agency by striking down their warrantless wiretapping program. In response to a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the judge found that the program violates both the First and Fourth Amendments to our U.S. Constitution, as well as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Read about the decision here.

Working Assets is proud to have joined in this fight by filing an amicus brief in support of the ACLU's suit. We believe that the warrantless monitoring of phone conversations ordered by the Bush administration is illegal and unacceptable.

However, this fight is far from over. Despite the fact that the judge found the wiretapping program clearly unconstitutional, Senator Specter and Vice President Cheney are still pushing legislation that would -- after the fact -- make the entire warrantless wiretapping program legal.

Tell your Senators to reject the Cheney-Specter bill.

Senate Bill 2453 would not only legalize the wiretapping program; it would also transfer all lawsuits pending against the program into the secretive FISA court -- where they could be dismissed for no reason at all. Simply put, if we care about our privacy and the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution, this legislation must be stopped.
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Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I can't profess to be all that knowledgable about the topic, but surely if the court found it was unconstitutional, then they would have to amend the constitution to make it legal, not just pass another bill.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'd rather be a Communist than a Fascist Island Dog.

At least Communist & Socialist don't kill there own race and country men. (Well unless there out of bullets and running away from battle.)
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
At least Communist & Socialist don't kill there own race and country men.


Are you serious?
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Stalin and Mao, the great Communist leaders, killed many more than Hitler. Stalin's body count is estimated at 15 million. At one point he was starving more than 25,000 people to death in the Ukraine every day.

Mao weighs in at between 25 to 30 million. Can you imagine killing so many people that 5 million deaths is only a fraction?

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge only killed about 1.6 million of their countrymen, but then Cambodia is a small country. He would have killed more, had they been available. You gotta give old Pol an "A" for effort.

You know what the saddest thing is? That they died, died by the millions...and the S1's of this world have forgotten them.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Guess you can't argue with that huh? Still think communism is the way to go?
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Last week,


You cant even write a blog without being wrong! It was not last week you dolt! It was weeks ago! And has as much chance of withstanding an appeal as a snowball in hell, as the judge's ruling was so inarticulate and rambling that legal scholars (with the exception of Al Jazeera's wing - the NYT) find it embarassing!

You may like being a communist, but you will always be a peon as the Communist rulers do not promote idiots to important positions of leadership.