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| consequences for voting
I follow politics about as little as I follow UFC (they seem the same), so I don't know if this will pan out or not. But apparently some former fundraisers for Ron Paul are working for a group that's raising money to run ads against the Democrats voting for this immunity bill.
Online Movement Aims to Punish Democrats Who Support Bush Wiretap Bill
Progressive author and lawyer Glenn Greenwald, who writes for Salon.com, and blogger Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, are spearheading the effort. They've hired the political media consultants behind a historic Ron Paul online fundraising drive to organize a similar "moneybomb," set to go off Aug. 8.
"That is the day Richard Nixon resigned, and the idea is that 35 years ago when you did this kind of stuff, you were forced out of office, and now congress drops everything to make your crimes legal," says Hamsher in an interview.
The campaign marks a milestone in the evolution of online grassroots organizing. The PAC is cherry-picking the tactics and tools that proved most successful in the presidential primary campaigns, and is using them to corral online support for the single issue of domestic spying. The PAC's money pay for advertisements in the districts of the House Democrats who voted for the spy bill -- potentially causing problems for those capitulating on the Bush wiretapping program.
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| Domestic spying is a hot button, simply because a government generally feels that it needs to know what the citizens are doing. Even if things are on the up & up.
(Big Brother and all that)
I'm not opposed to the providers sending the government raw data, just having the providers pre-filter it for the government.
At one time, Cold War, (pre-satellite) the government monitored virtually all overseas phone calls. Today, the sheer volume would swamp anything but a very major effort.
If the government seduces a private company into doing something illegal, I feel that the government assumes the liability, and should not be able to hide behind the sovereign immunity clauses. |
