Chris Carney, Comcast and Warrantless Wiretaps
Blue America has been asking for donations to help in our nonpartisan campaign to hold members of Congress accountable when they vote against the Constitution. For the past two weeks we've been running TV spots, radio spots and newspaper ads in Chris Carney's northeast Pennsylvania congressional district to make sure his constituents know that he is behaving like a Republican rubber stamp, not like the Democrat they thought they elected in 2006. Today the ACLU, as well as Senators Chris Dodd and Russ Feingold issued strong statements showing what a complete sham the "compromise" the Republicans and a handful of reactionary Democrats have worked out. On top of that, as Glenn Greenwald explained yesterday, Comcast-- Carney's #2 campaign donor-- is protecting him from his own constituents by censoring the debate and refusing to allow the Blue America ads to run (although all the radio ads, 7 full page newspaper ads and the non-Comcast TV ads have all been running). Listen to the Blue America radio ad that has been running all over Carney's district.
I'm sure you can guess which side of this battle John W. McCain is on. If you would like to stand with Blue America, most congressional Democrats and Barack Obama in preventing warrantless wiretaps on American citizens and preventing retroactive immunity for criminal allies of the Bush Regime please consider even a $5 or $10 contribution to the Blue America vs Retroactive Immunity fund today.
Earlier this year I sent out a bulk email to friends exhorting them to sign the ACLU FISA petition.
My ISP is Comcast. My email stopped working after my mailing.
The next day I contacted the ISP.
Several weeks latter Comcast called and wanted to do a 'survey' about my inquiry regarding my post FISA email disfunction.
However, the person abruptly hung up without finishing the 'survey' when I started talking about FISA and Comcast.
I wonder.
Alice Hussein Chomsky Nader Says:
Don't wonder believe. This a takeover of government by corps and special interest. Let's not forget how one cooks a frog. You don't throw him in hot water, you put him in cold water and slowly raise the temperature. IMO, we are close to reaching the boiling point.
btw, love your name.......
This is what really angers me about media consolidation and the abolition of fair-use -- one facet of a multimedia conglomerate can use its media facet to prevent its telecom facet and lobbyist connections from obtaining bad press.
Support the American Civil Liberties Union > http://www.aclu.org/
If there is any doubt that Corporate America has taken over the US government, just look at how the GOP knocked down the windfall tax of the oil companies.
Don't believe that ComCast would cut your service for taking surveys against the administration, Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.
Comcast is my ISP also. Actually, it was Suscom, before that, Susquehanna, before that Casco Cable - all the same company. I heard they are selling out to yet another cable company. I'm confused. It is the only game in town. That or dial up. I would like to switch ISPs but I'm stuck. Can I at least get email with someone else?
BTW, I can surf the internet with great speed except for liberal blogs. I am suspicious. (and confused)
But not as bad as McSame.
Jo @ 6:
Get a DSL line.
The House clerk is now reading Kucinich' 35 articles of impeachment, folks. On C-SPAN...
I'm sorry if I'm off topic...
Part of the resolution by Kucinch accuses Bush co for illegally spying on US citizens email.
I no longer donate to political parties because money is power and the only way to get the members of congress to vote responsibly is to donate only to members who do. I use Act Blue to target their campaigns.
If any lessons can be had from the extended primary it is that vast amounts of money can be raised across the web that exceeds lobbyist donations and that voters can influence the primaries.
Blue America's campaign is also a need step forward in the right direction. It is time to let our "representatives" know that we wish to be... represented!
I'll make a donation to Blue America for this campaign and encourage them to start a similar effort for Madame "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi. When she made those statements she gave Bush and Cheney a green light for their continued criminal activity. She's an accomplice before and after the fact to their crimes.
Howie Klien said,"If you would like to stand with Blue America, most congressional Democrats and Barack Obama in preventing warrantless wiretaps on American citizens and...donate."
I say,
Howie, I dont know if you know this or not but...Obama voted for the patriot act. (it gives the FBI and other federal agencies the right to tap your phone without a warrant) ...and Obama voted for it
although I totally agree w/you that we should hold members of congress accountable for voting against the constitution.
Its just that, ...Obama needs to be held accountable for that patriot act vote that he cast!
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 7:
I know nothing about computers. What is a DSL line?
g.mojoblue @ 8:
Impeaching Bush should always be on topic.
Jo @ 12:
Digital Subscriber Line.
It coexists with your telephone line.
For me it is either AT&T (DSL) or Comcast (Cable modem).
Choose your FISA Felons. They are both FISA criminals.
It is difficult to not become disheartened by the politicians we keep electing. They seem to care so little about their constituents, unless that constituent is a company.
Jo @ 12:
of course that would be a digital service line...
...why bangkok bob thinks it will help you serf on liberal blogs quicker ...is unknown to me.
Hi alice,
Just athought but maybe your name has set off multiple warnings to goverment data mining computers. Change to "Alice loves Jesus Governing" and they might leave you alone.
Comrade Rou @ 17:
I'll never fly again, that much I know. ;^)
Alice Hussein Chomsky Nader @ 14:
Thanks! I have the same choices - AT&T or Comcast. Some choice.
June 6, 2008
Adviser Says McCain Backs Bush Wiretaps
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team.
In a letter posted online by National Review this week, the adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said Mr. McCain believed that the Constitution gave Mr. Bush the power to authorize the National Security Agency to monitor Americans’ international phone calls and e-mail without warrants, despite a 1978 federal statute that required court oversight of surveillance.
Mr. McCain believes that “neither the administration nor the telecoms need apologize for actions that most people, except for the A.C.L.U. and trial lawyers, understand were constitutional and appropriate in the wake of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,” Mr. Holtz-Eakin wrote.
Alice Hussein Chomsky Nader Trotsky Che Guevara
Oh my you are brave one......no Fidel Castro??
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory @ 20:
The Nazis rewrote Germany's laws to make everything they did 'legal'. It worked until Nuremberg.
Jo @ 19:
I was simply giving her an option other than ComCast cable modem.
My ADSL line gets me 2571 kbps download speed and 238 kbps upload.
I also subscribe to and use anonymity http://anonymityanywhere.com/ because I live in Thailand where some sites (like you tube) are taboo and also because i comment regularly on liberal, progressive and other sites.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory @ 20:
McSame smells power. He is like a dog in heat and will shove his nose up anyone's arse or hump anyone's leg to get it. Illegal wiretapping reeks of power to those that use it. Of course he still has to raise one leg to pee.
Comrade Rou @ 21:
There is no place in my heart for Fidel, he is a tyrant.
The theories of social justice end with the suppression of free speech and free elections.
Fidel would think our FISA civil liberty concerns quaint. He and Bush would understand each other. We hate the communists because they close their markets. As soon as they open them like the Chinese they are buddies.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 23:
Thanks, Bob. Stay safe.
Jo @ 26:
I'm safer here than I would be there. But thanks for the concern.
Alice,
What about Che? Bicycle Diaries aside, he certainly didn't support democratic forces at work in Cuba.
Comrade Rou @ 28:
Neither he nor Trotsky were at the pinnacle so there is a slight tinge of romance. It wears off quickly.
You're right, he was not a democrat.
Human nature is the culprit in every system.
Alice,
"Human nature is the culprit in every system."
Yes, I think when you reach a certain level of power there is the faustian bargain test. I think the test is more of a seduction . Wondering what Obama is thinking?????
I think the radio ad would be more effective if the narrator spoke in a normal tone of voice, rather than the "gotcha" accusatory tone characteristic of so many political ads today.
Comrade Rou @ 30:
Chomsky is a great guide here.
We have the illusion of a democracy that produces a leader who we are led to believe, acts according to the wishes of the electorate and actually steers the ship of state.
In fact the multinational corporations and their prime movers set the agenda.
I liken it to sending one or the other of two pilots up to fly a great airliner that has only an autopilot.
Our favorite pilot can throw his (it could even be a her sometime, another time) weight around in the cockpit all they want but their effect is rather limited.
Obama will not have as many options as is widely believed.
Chomsky's " manufacturing Consent" video was excellent. I agree that Obama is going to run into a buzzsaw. He already seems to be caving in to various interest groups( AIPAC, Cuban American Foundation, empire builders....). Well our only hope is a popular uprising that directly confronts the folks in charge of this mess. I'm reading Howrd Zinn , who clearly documents the history of change in the US comes from the ground up.
For those of us who would like nothing more than to see george bush and dick cheney escorted to a Ford Bronco by federal marshalls, while wearing zip-tie handcuffs (b&c, not the marshalls), THIS is the issue we really need to push.
Telecomm immunity, in my opinion, has little to do with the telecomms.
A person would have to be intensely naive to believe that the telecomms illegally tapped people's phones without a deal already in place ensuring that none of their own would take the fall. They have teams of lawyers for cryin' out loud. There's no way in hell that they are going to knowingly violate the law without a back-up plan.
So...if they are investigated, it WILL be found out that they violated the law and they will drop a dime on the white house faster than you can say, "executive privilege."
I'm speculating with 99.9% confidence that they have the evidence to put away bush and cheney, hence the reason the white house is so adamant that they (the telecomms) are given retroactive immunity from prosecution for activities they have already been a part of. This is an after-the-fact cover-up of Nixonian proportions.
Oh shit Chuck Norris , Texas Ranger has become a fucking shill for the oil companies. Do these guys have some sort of chip implant?
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/ChuckNorris/2008/06/10/congress,_get_...
This compromise is no compromise at all. The sum total of what's to be adjudicated under Kip Bond's proposal (adjudicated in a secret court, I might add) is whether or not the telecoms received written assurances from the Administration that their complicity is legal--regardless of the lack of warrants. That's already been declassified. We know the telecoms received written assurances. Written assurances don't cut it. This allows future presidents to circumnavigate law with "written assurances."
Are we a nation of laws or are we a nation of juntas?
If this goes through, what makes us better than Mugabe or a handful of other despots that do as they please once in power.
Call your representative and tell them you don't support this proposal and that "discovery (legal term) needs to be public--not in FISA court!" House switchboard number is (202) 224-3121--ask for the office of your rep.
Pelosi actually do something the VOTERS wanted that put her there in 2006
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAH AHAH AH
With a little luck this will light a fire under Carney's ass.
H.K. of C. and L. is "sure you can guess which side of this battle John W. McCain is on...."
Can you guess which side of this battle Reid, Hoyer, Pelosi, et al. are on?
Via a close lady friend, several of us chipped in on four blue america candidates. Three turned out to be dogs. Has anybody seen a compilation of their endorsement successes and failures?
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