spying
AT&T whistleblower claims to document illegal NSA surveillance
Evidence provided by a former AT&T technician proves that the telecommunications company secretly and unlawfully opened its networks to government eavesdroppers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Thursday.
i wonder what power we have as consumers to prevent these companies from doing this to us? probably very little.
MoJo Blog: Plenty of opportunities to impeach Bush
during the month of March alone, Bush violated enough other laws to make impeachment proceedings possible. The writer of the Patriot Daily piece says that, "to avoid writing a book," it was necessary to omit any violations of law committed before March 1, 2006, violations of humanitarian laws and negligence, and some of the prior laws to which there had not been additional information added.
arguments for spying and indefinite detentions typically rely on the premise that it's "us" against "them" and only "they" are subject to such things. the argument however, falls flat when history is examined in any detail and we see case after case of abuse where "them" included the likes of MLK and many other civil rights activists.
personally, i don't particularly want any administration deciding who constitutes "us" and "them", given the track records.
