Here we go folks...

As I have been posting on this subject for what seems like my entire adult life, we are about to see an end to the FISA telecom immunity story for good. When the House caves in finally and gives Bush the immunity bill he has been terrifying the country that he needed, that will be the end of it. We will never fully know what the president and the NSA were doing. We will never know if it actually was illegal. We will never know the full scope of this story. Remember people, this wasn't the president wiretapping the Democratic National Committee building to hear what his opponents were up to. This was your president casting a huge data mining net over the entire country to see what YOU were up to. Hope you haven't bought any Noam Chomsky books recently or you might be getting a knock on the door soon. What this also enables is future president's, whether Republican or Democratic, to do the same damn thing all over again. This is a sad day for our fading "democracy". Please pour a little from your 40 oz tonight in loving memory.

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin

UPDATE: Here's blue gal's piece on C&L about how Bush will bury his legacy for future generations to never look into. Good times.

Glenn Greenwald is my hero

I wanted to share this piece he wrote on how our Supreme Court denied a NSA wiretapping case from being heard. Our country is in bad shape if Alito, Scalia and Roberts are allowed to protect a criminal in the White House. This is a serious story and I find it sad that the only people talking about it are bloggers and Keith Olberman. We have AG's investigating themselves, judges refusing to hear cases against the government and a Congress that can only vote whether Christmas is a national holiday.