Senate Kills the Constitution on 80-15 Vote
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On Wednesday, by a vote of 80-15, the United State Senate killed the Constitution of the United States by legalizing warrantless wiretapping.
The Senate vote follows last Friday's 293-129 vote in the House.
Big Brother is watching you. He is listening to every phone call, reading every email, following every click of your browser.
Big Brother has complete power. You have none.
And every institution in Washington DC thinks that is perfectly fine - the President, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Corporate Media.
Why? Because they think you should be watched, just in case you decide to overthrow Big Brother.
Your tax dollars created Big Brother. Your tax dollars are protecting him. And there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. Or me.
I just thought you'd want to know.
Update 1: For the record, these 15 Senators voted against Big Brother:
Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Wyden (D-OR)
These 5 Senators didn't bother to vote:
Byrd (D-WV)
Clinton (D-NY)
Kennedy (D-MA)
McCain (R-AZ)
Obama (D-IL)
The other 80 Senators voted for Big Brother.
Update 2: Yesterday, Senator Obama said:
My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people.
Change you can believe in? As dday writes,
Obama is totally cool with the precedent of the government giving a slip of paper to a corporation allowing them to break the law. He's cool with the premise of "we were just following orders" that was shot down at Nuremberg being revived. He's cool with if the President does it, then it isn't illegal. He's cool with a bunch of the other really dangerous aspects of the bill, including the vacuuming up of every communication that leaves or enters the United States without even the caveat that they be related to terrorism. He's cool with a national surveillance state.
Just plain cool with it.
Exactly.
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that is what people do when they are afraid
Hey look, for the last eight years an environment based on fear has been created and ridden very hard. This administration along with certain major corporations and the pentagon have worked very very hard to create this fear environment. It basically gives a select few a blank check and a free hand. If you are made to feel that you no longer have any control in your future then you are more likely to sign away anything to be protected. Hmmm! imagine that. Have we given up on the god whose name is always being thrown around? Did we not used to have faith and a knowing that things would work out without giving up the farm? And you have to look at the type of people that we have representing us. Most are old rich guys or gals that are very fearful of the world in the first place and very fearful of losing their status and riches. So if you put an imaginary fear environment around them, of course they will vote based on their fears. And this allows an ineffective and deceitful administration to convince them to protect the complicit corporations and gives them a free hand to spy on anyone they choose. It allows them to pass ridiculous laws at great expense to taxpayers that are ineffective at best and dangerous at worst. After trillions of dollars and great divisions among people of America and the world for that matter, we are not now any safer that we were and many many great lives have been lost needlessly as well. Now we are expanding the state of fear as a report on global warming says that poor countries will be looking to migrate in great quantities and this will open us up for even greater terror. This reminds me of the story about the miser who stayed locked away in his room counting his money. Yes let us build fences, close borders, hide in the closet and count our money and spy on our citizens and track their every movement and be fearful all the days of our lives. Hogwash!!!!! Here is a novel thought let us all work together in the world and come up with solutions for all and work toward adjusting our water and food and energy needs for the future according to predictive climate change patterns. WE are not separate entities on this planet we are all one like it or not. Let us not be fearful and reactive, let us be loving and proactive. Yes the world can be a scary place to scared people. But that is not reason enough to make idiotic decisions and sell our freedom and our souls and spirits for an imaginary protection against a possible threat at some unknown time in the future. This administration reminds me of the old gangster movies where the guys used to come into businesses and rough up the owners a little and scare them into paying for protection. Is that the future we want? Or do we want to work together and join all the great minds on the planet to come up with solutions to a new and ever changing world where there is cooperation, freedom, and a sense of hopefulness. In the history of the world there has always been reasons to be fearful but we used to have hope and a knowing that we would find solutions. Have we lost those abilities or just been hoodwinked into feeling that we have.
i agree with your sentiments
but what is the practical method for implementing them?
we rely on the Constitution to bring about change through the political process, but the current Congress has just let the White House kill the Constitution.
will the next President revive the Constitution? certainly McCain won't, and Obama had his chance yesterday and voted absent after saying Security trumps Corporate lawlessness.
practical method spelled out in the constitution
The American people need to rise up and face these people with legal actions by holding our representatives in contempt for mis-representation and mis-management of our governemt, commencing immediate audits of our government, and impeaching the administration and dismissing its underlings for any one of the many well-documented acts committed that warrant such actions. That is outlined in our constitution exactly how to proceed. In the final analysis this is a country of the people by the people and for the people or it is no longer America.
More thoughts on government surveillance
I agree 100%. The fourth amendment is dead.
Here is my thoughts on this subject: A Brief History of Government Surveillance
Could Obama
be avoiding voting at all because if he voted against wire-tapping he'd be labeled as soft on terror? Rather just not vote at all. When the election year is over and we have a Democrat for President and a greater democrat majority with more progressives in the Senate and House, maybe more dems will vote in a more progressive direction???? I don't like how the majority voted today, I'm just trying to hold on to some semblance of hope for the country.