America tortures, illegally spies on its citizens, illegally and unnecessarily invades Iraq wasting trillions of dollars and resulting in countless deaths and injuries, and refuses to provide health care for its children.
Democrats, elected to end all of these horrors, take impeachment off the table, cave to almost all Republican demands (even though the public seems to support the Democrats positions in polls after polls). Now, those telecom companies that enabled the spying on Americans are on the verge of receiving (or are they buying via contributions?) retroactive immunity for turning over confidential data to the government without a proper legal warrant. And the top Democrat in the Senate is speaking as if he will ignore a “hold” placed upon this bill by another Democrat, while having many times honored “holds” placed by Rethuglicans on other bills in the past.
Naturally, we should not have to contact our elected representatives to tell them what a bad idea this is. They should know, immediately, what a bad idea it is. However, because many of our elected representatives, and at least one high-profile presidential candidate, don’t seem to grasp how the Constitution is being torn apart, we need to prod them to defend the constitution by not granting retroactive immunity. I have called, written snail-mails and sent e-mails. If I knew how to send thoughts via ESP, I would use that method as well.
And I’m thinking about moving to Finland if the telecom companies are granted retroactive immunity.
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