Saturday, February 16, 2008

Telecom Immunity/Olberman ROCKS!

Finally, the House Democrats have stood up to the Senate Democrats and the Bush Administration!!

The Democrats have allowed the Protect America Act a.k.a. the "Police America Act" to expire due to Bush's insistence that he would veto a bill that did not include immunity for telecom companies.

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats passed a version of the bill that DID include immunity. Seventeen Democrats joined with Republicans in violating our rights:

Jay Rockefeller (D-WV),
Evan Bayh (D-IN),
Daniel Inouye (D-HI),
Tim Johnson (D-SD),
Herb Kohl (D-WI),
Mary Landrieu (D-LA),
Claire McCaskill (D-MO),
Mark Pryor (D-AR),
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR),
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA),
Ken Salazar (D-CO),
Tom Carper (D-DE),
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD),
Jim Webb (D-VA),
Ben Nelson (D-NE),
Bill Nelson (D-FL),
Kent Conrad (D-ND),
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)

Of course, our very own Senator, as usual, joined with the Republicans. They will return in a week and I am sure that this will be on the agenda once again. NOW is the time to contact everyone on this list -especially Nelson- and tell them not pass this bill and, at the very least, strip out the immunity for companies who have been ILLEGALLY spying on American Citizens. If they don't have enough evidence to procure a search warrant, then they shouldn't be listening to our conversations.


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