There was a time when laws in the United States protected the weak and innocent from predators and warranted that criminals will be punished. That calculus has been reversed in the Age of Bu$h. Now we are all victims and George Bu$h, Dick “dick” Cheney and their criminal partners see us all as sheep to be fleeced.

The latest FISA atrocity, S2248, is due to expire by sunset provision on February 1st. This bill not only allows George Bu$h to have everybody in the US eavesdropped upon, it releases the telecoms from breaking the law (which they did) when they agreed to start wiretapping a month after Messers Bu$h and Cheney stole our White House and then took office in January 2001.

What we now have seen of the Bu$h malAdministration and its policy is that everything it does, says, plans, or initiates has only one basic function: achieving domestic political goals. It requires no stretch of the imagination to understand that the first targets of electronic information capture were Democratic politicians and those journalists and reporters considered unfriendly to the republican Party.

Considering that over the last seven years the Democratic “leadership” has gone out of its way to grovel and bootlick for George Bu$h those first few heady months of listening in on their landline and cell phone calls and emails must have been remarkable. During the height of the Cold War, the heads of GRU and KGB would have killed their mothers, wives, and children for the chance to learn one-tenth of the intelligence data that fell to Mt Bu$h in those first few months. I fail to see why anyone who has thought this out is surprised at what the Democrats have acquiesced to in order to keep their secrets from the public.

And now Mr Bu$h has demanded that they not only immunize the telecoms from legal liability, but also himself and others of his criminal gang.

And the Democrats, desperate to hide their privacy from their employers, the citizens of this country, will grant him what he wants, yet again.

Senator Chris Dodd has pledged to filibuster this bill. Why not contact his office and thank him for this effort?

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) (202) 224-2823

Email him support here:

If you think this is the wrong way to run a country, call your Senators.

In fact, it might not be a bad idea to call Harry Reid because he’s the one who’s most anxious to accommodate Mr Bu$h. Despite the fact that he’s in this Bu$h enabling up to his scrawny turkey neck he’s still a US Senator, and it’s appropriate to be diplomatic and polite when talking to his staffer.

Senator Harry Reid Harry (R - NV) (202) 224-3542 [OK, he's not officially an "r" - he just acts like one. as I said, I'd love to know what George Bu$h heard about his phone calls early in 2001.]

You could probably ask Senator Reid’s staffer why republicans are allowed to just say they want to filibuster and that’s good enough to kill a bill, but he’s going to force democrats to actually do the filibuster.

Senator Harry Reid Harry (R - NV) (202) 224-3542 [OK, he's not officially an "r" - he just acts like one. as I said, I'd love to know what George Bu$h heard about his phone calls early in 2001.]

You could probably ask Senator Reid’s staffer why republicans are allowed to just say they want to filibuster and that’s good enough to kill a bill, but he’s going to force democrats to actually do the filibuster.

UPDATE: Erroneous link fixed. I am a sloppy man sometimes.