President Bush and his administration, now have the power, [courtesy of our "Democratic leaders”] to SPY on AMERICANS without court order! Yes, you read this correctly! And the "person" Bush is leaving to the collecting of any and all information to, is his Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales.
And I quote from the e-mail I received today from the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union):
"Democratic “leaders” have crossed the line and betrayed the will of the majority who put them in power in 2006. This week, a timid Congress caved in to President Bush and his demand for more out-of-control authority to spy on Americans
The FISA gutting legislation voted on last weekend allows for massive, untargeted collection of Americans’ international communications without court order. The law allows for no meaningful oversight by either Congress or the courts and leaves decisions about the collection, mining and use of American information up to the Bush Administration’s Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales."
"And it never had to happen if leaders in the House and Senate had had the courage to take a stand and say, "no, no more” to the Bush administration."
Source: All " ", ACLU email I received today, August 8, 2007
So, earlier today, the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) "filed an unprecedented demand with the Foreign intelligence Surveillance Court, seeking the disclosure of court records cited by supporters of the president's horrendous FISA overhaul."
"These are secret documents, which played a pivotal role in the undoing of legal safeguards that have stood for three decades". Why and how has this happened, you ask? There are many reasons [or excuses] why the American people weren't, or didn't care, to be informed. I too, am guilty of this as well, until this president Bush took office, since I did not vote for him.
Source: All " ", ACLU email I received today, August 8th, 2007
We need to stand with the ACLU to tell both Senate Majority Leader, Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that we are tired of of our rights not being defended, protected and secured by the people we voted into office.
"The ACLU is launching a major new campaign to hold Congress accountable, and they can't do it without us!. Stand with the ACLU today sending Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi a wake up call that is past due."
Source: All " ", ACLU email I received today, August 8th, 2007
Below, are the links to read the articles, sign the petition, and get others in the know as well. We cannot allow this continue, or the basic premises that the United States of America was founded on, will cease to exist.
