[GJM] Fw: I signed "Wiretapping Impeachment not Immunity"

[mary rose]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bob at oceguedaproductions.com>
To: <maryrose333 at att.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:02 PM
Subject: I signed "Wiretapping Impeachment not Immunity"


> Forwarded by Robert Ocegueda <bob at oceguedaproductions.com>
>
> I just sent a personal message to all my representatives in Congress, I 
> hope you will join me!
>
> http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/141?source=bob%40oceguedaproductions.com
>
> I signed "Wiretapping Impeachment not Immunity"
>
> I am appalled that House "Majority" Leader Steny Hoyer has cut a deal with 
> George Bush to legalize Bush's warrantless wiretapping and grant immunity 
> to the telephone companies that have engaged in massive illegal 
> wiretapping for the past 7 years.
>
>
> We now know Bush enlisted the telephone companies to engage in illegal 
> warrantless wiretapping in Feburary 2001 - shortly after he stole the 
> White House and long before the 9/11 attack that supposedly justified this 
> and many other criminal actions by the Bush Administration.
>
>
> I am disgusted that Rep. Hoyer has put campaign contributions from AT&T, 
> Verizon, and BellSouth ahead of my Constitutional right to be free from 
> government spying.
>
>
> I call on my Senators to demonstrate your respect for my Constitutional 
> rights by putting this horrendous and unconstitutional bill on hold - 
> permanently. And I call on you to use your power of "inherent contempt" to 
> arrest those White House officials who failed to deliver the many 
> documents and witnesses demanded by Senator Leahy and the Judiciary 
> Committee in their investigation of Bush's illegal wiretapping.
>
>
> I also call on my Representative to co-sponsor Articles of Impeachment for 
> George Bush (H. Res. 1258) and Dick Cheney (H. Res. 799) for their illegal 
> wiretapping, as well as torture, Iraq War lies, outing Valerie Plame, and 
> other High Crimes - the most heinous Presidential crimes in American 
> history.
>
>
> http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/141?source=bob%40oceguedaproductions.com
>
> Thank You

Bob, thanks for send this. While I had prepared the below for sending, I 
neglected to get it posted.   I have come to the conclusion that our 
government is so corrupted that it is completely dysfunctional except for 
using military might to intimidate the world in kowtowing to its infantile 
demands and actions.  And this includes the members of Congress as well. 
They seem deaf to any demands from "we-the-people" to intercede on our 
behalf.  It is obvious that this cannot continue on forever and that the 
regime will collapse of its own accord, but when is the question, and how to 
get out of the clutches of the mad men and women in charge of the nut house 
is the question of the day.

mary rose  .  .

Subject:  Commentary: How dare they rip the Fourth Amendment?

Almost every day now, there seems to be a  new article revealing how the
current administration is ignoring and/or refusing to obey the laws they
swore to uphold upon taking office.

And, yet no one does anything about it.  mary rose

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Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Commentary: How dare they rip the Fourth
Amendment?



Commentary: How dare they rip the Fourth Amendment?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/43123.html
By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers

Early next week the U.S. Senate will vote on an extension of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act, with a few small amendments intended to
immunize telecommunications corporations that assisted our government in the
warrantless and illegal wiretapping it has grown to love.

That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution even made it
out of committee is yet another stain on the gutless and seemingly powerless
Democratic majority in both houses of Congress.

That a majority on both sides of the aisle - not least of them the
presumptive nominees for president of both political parties - intend to
vote for such a violation of Americans' right to privacy and of the sanctity
of their personal communications is a stunning surrender to those who want
us to live in fear forever.

We are living in a time when the right of habeas corpus - which simply put
is your right to be brought before a proper court of law where the
government is made to prove that there is good and legal reason to detain
you - recently survived by a margin of only one vote at the U.S. Supreme
Court.

Now these bad actors are prepared to set aside your right to privacy -
written into the Constitution as a key part of our Bill of Rights - with
hardly a nod in the direction of the true patriots who rebelled against an
English king and his army to guarantee those rights.

That they will do this while the last empty phrases of the political
windbags at the Fourth of July celebrations are still echoing across a
thousand city parks and the bright red, white and blue bunting and blizzard
of American flags still flap in the breeze is little short of breath-taking.

How dare they?

Those denizens of the White House and Capitol Hill and all those gray
granite buildings that line avenues with names like Constitution and
Independence in the nation's capitol would have us believe that we must
trade our rights, all of our rights, for some measure of security from the
terrorists.

They would have us believe that a nation of 300 million people must
surrender what a million other Americans gave their lives in war to protect
in order to protect us from a couple of hundred fanatics hiding in caves in
Waziristan.

Benjamin Franklin himself wrote of such a debate:

"Those who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

The fact that British troops, operating on flimsy general warrants handed
out by local magistrates, were kicking in the doors of ordinary Americans
and rifling through their pantries and papers in search of smuggled, untaxed
goods was a prime reason why our ancestors rebelled against their king and
went to war.

This is WHY we celebrate the Fourth of July. This is why the vote on
renewing the expanded version of FISA and whitewashing the egregious
violations of the Fourth Amendment for seven long years by our government is
important.

If neither John McCain, the Republican, or Barrack Obama, the Democrat, can
find the courage to oppose such a violation of so basic a right, then what
are we to do for a president, a successor to George W. Bush, The Decider,
who has since 9/11 decided what rights you are entitled to keep, what laws
he will or will not obey, and whether you will be protected by these words
of the Constitution:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized."

That's it. That's the Fourth Amendment. That is what these folks in
Washington, D.C., have violated continuously and in secret for seven long
years.

Somewhere across an ocean and a desert, hiding in his cave, a man of hate
named Osama bin Laden is laughing up the sleeve of his dirty robe at the
thought that he and a small handful of fellow fanatics could tie a great
nation in knots - knots of fear stoked by our own leaders.

We have done incalculably more and greater damage to ourselves since
September 11, 2001, than a thousand bin Ladens and ten thousand al Qaida
recruits could ever have done to us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt famously declared that "we have nothing to fear but
fear itself." Now it would seem that we have no one to fear but ourselves
and our leaders.

The questions I pose are these:

How can even one senator on either side of the aisle in good conscience vote
in favor of this law that does nothing to enhance our security and
everything to diminish our rights as a free people?

How can both men who seek to become our next president cast such a vote when
both should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder declaring that they would
govern by our consent and with our approval, not by wielding the coercive
and corrosive and corrupt powers that King George III and his latter-day
namesake from Texas thought are theirs by divine right?

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