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| Written by Editor February 23, 2008 |
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Truth through art
Too bad the Republicans and Bush choose not to approve an emergency temporary renewal. However, the bill did not contain immunity for the telecoms.
Terrorists? You mean the 860,000 names that are now on the terrorist watch list in America?
I think the comic makes the same faulty assumption conservatives have been making — the government would only use its expanded powers for good. Catch bad guys, thwart evil plots, rescue kittens from trees, etc.
But that has not been the history of governmental power, nor is it consistent with the ideas which founded our country.
Once a bureaucracy is established it’s near impossible to eradicate….
So let them renew their FISA card. It’s not as if they have to stop gathering information, they merely need to follow the procedure established by law.