And remember this quote? “Nancy Pelosi, quivering at the thought of becoming the nation’s first female Speaker of the House, said on Nov 9, 2006, “This new Democratic majority has heard the voices of the American people.” She added, while apparently attempting to stifle a burst of wild, maniacal laughter, “Americans placed their trust in Democrats. We will honor that trust. We will not disappoint.”

And here is what I faxed this past Sunday; feel free to use any of it.
“I am again writing regards the FISA legislation. I find it frustrating in the extreme to have to keep writing about this issue.

I have read where Rep. Hoyer and Senator Bond have ‘hammered out a deal’ regarding FISA legislation that would grant immunity to the telecommunication companies AND remove the requirement for judicial review in the future when the executive branch wants to wiretap an American citizen being contacted from overseas.(What was written was that the FISA court would ‘review the process’ by which such Executive branch decisions are made; incredible to me that ANYONE in a Congress sworn to uphold the Constitution would even consider such a thing, especially in view of the abuses by the current Executive branch.)

If the only role for the court – be it District or a FISA court – is to determine whether the companies received a request from the Administration, and not to determine whether those requests were legal, it’s a sham review.

And since Rep. Hoyer spoke on the House floor on March 15, 2008 saying “how the FISA law is in place, protects the American public, and how the Bush Administration chose to break the law.” why is he now ‘making deals’ which subvert his House statements? What has changed?

I have also read where Rep.Silvestere ‘wants to move this off the table’.

I ask you the following question (besides -again- indicating as a constituent of Representative Susan Davis- my opposition to immunity and whose opinion reflects a majority in Representative Davis’ district): “how can lack of prosecution of illegal activities be “on” the table at one place (FISA), and prosecution of illegal activities can be “off” the table at another place.(impeachment)?”

This -from The American Conservative Magazine- is the ‘terrorist’ that worries me: “The holders of great wealth, especially if they are organized into a political lobby of similar holders of great wealth, can buy not only more goods, more capital, and more people. They can also buy (through the vehicle of campaign contributions) more important people: politicians and other public officials and therefore public policies.”

Bruce Sims
San Diego, CA 92116

CC: Representative Susan Davis
Speaker Pelosi
Representative Conyers
Senator Boxer
Senator Feinstein
Senator Reid
Senator Obama

Thank you to all who are coming together to fight this most important fight since the founding of our country.

We all need to get our friends to support. We all need to keep those calls/faxes to Reps and Obama’s office going until they cannot keep up with the information flow. As well as our donations too.

Many, many thanks to all for fighting this important fight for rights.

BTW, Hoyer is full of hooey when it comes to protecting citizen’s rights.

Don’t have the #’s, but I’m sure someone will link ‘em [please?]

It’s THAT IMPORTANT that we not let the big guys get away with this. Lord, I hope they don’t…

This is incredible. I have almost no time right now, so can’t check upthread to see if anyone else has commented on this, but I thought you guys might be interested that EFF is also on the warpath over this new Steny deal nonsense.

Since EFF is sending out e-mail announcements that they are fighting it, I was surprised NOT to see them listed at strangebedfellows dot com.
I fired an e-mail right back to them telling them about the site and effort by you folks.

I carry no weight in the electronic world. Would someone at the Lake right now be willing to contact the right people at EFF and make sure they’re on board? It looked, from their report, as if they’re working independently already. Thanks much. Good luck to us all. gr-r-r-r. Steny’s way over-ripe for being kicked out of the coalition of goodguys. blergh

http://www.eff.org/action/no-false-compromises

I feel like calling him and asking how much he charges to do what’s right.

Who knows maybe he’s really cheap.