"Knowledge about government is power" --GovTrack
Mondays are traditionally poor days to order seafood off your favorite restaurant's menu coz seafood wholesalers don't typically supply on weekends; so from big fish Friday until Monday rolls around, things could get a little ripe [Reference]. And judging by the smell of things, the Bush administration's serve-by date has come and gone.
But when is it best to order up the news? Well, if you want to learn about the latest fishy business from the Bush administration, and from the fear-mongering GOP, ya gotta troll a little deeper through Fridays' fishy news. It seems that the gubbermint, and main stream media like to sneak stuff out on Fridays' coz they figure that you and I are more focused on dining out and so the news of their latest skullduggery won't reach as far to sea. This past Friday we see where Bush is working hard to protect the only Americans he and the GOP give a rat's ass about ... rich corporate executives ... ya know the type ... like former Enron Chairman Ken Lay.
Bush Wants Phone Firms Immune to Privacy Suits
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 4, 2007; Page A14The Bush administration is urging Congress to pass a law that would halt dozens of lawsuits charging phone companies with invading ordinary citizens' privacy through a post-Sept. 11 warrantless surveillance program
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Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said to gain his support, the measure needs to state explicitly that a person who intentionally violates the law should not be granted immunity. "If somebody intentionally breaks the law . . . that's not something you should just ignore," he said. [SOURCE]
Well Senator Wyden, there is NO gaining THIS constituent's support for such a stinking law. We don't need no stinkin' bad-new law to protect crooks from prosecution over old violations of existing good laws.
I suggest that we assume the Republican approach to a free market economy and apply it to our judicial system as well ... instead of attempting to regulate and legislate everything, let market forces play themselves out. Let things take their natural course, and be self regulating with the laws we already have on our books. I mean, more laws just means more government interference, now-don't-it?
It would seem that Bush & Company LOVES new regulation and government interference, just so long as it keeps them and theirs out of legal hot water. But, they hate it when it doesn't favor them. Sounds like a serious FLIP-FLOP in their position on Law & Order to me. Bush and the GOP complain about lawyers like John Edwards taking legal action against their corporate cronies when a swimming pool device sucks the entrails out of a little girl; but then they wanna pass a law to protect themselves when they get caught red-handed climbing directly up the collective private asses of ordinary U.S. Citizens. Make 'em walk the plank. In fact, "Get a rope" and hang this bunch from the yard-arm. Which is pretty-much the message we tried to send to Congress in the last election cycle, but to-date has gone unheeded.
Senator Wyden, don't let this smelly legislative proposal get past ya, coz we don't want Bush and his corporate cronies getting their hooks any deeper into us. Catch it, and gut it, plain and simple ... and I don't mean "simple" as in George Bush, simpleton. I don't care as much about party affiliation as I do about fighting against these political fear tactics and corruption ... corporate and political. If constituent input continues to go unheeded, support will sink like that for Bush ... all the way down to Davey Jones' locker.
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