Friday, July 25, 2008
Save our Constitution on August 8
Readers of isen.blog have witnessed my concern about our eroding Constitution, and, specifically, my disappointment at the passage of a FISA bill that lets the telcos off the hook for illegally spying on us and also expands warrantless spying on our networked information. The net effect is that the Internet becomes a less democratic, less innovation-friendly, less people-oriented infrastructure.Glenn Greenwald has done heroic work, explaining the meaning of each event and proposal as the struggle to save our Constitution continues. Greenwald's July 14 piece details eight other incidents, in addition to the FISA debacle, where the new Democrat-led Congress, which we elected specifically to counteract Bush abuses, has repeatedly caved. Do you think this explains why Congress has a whopping 9% approval rating from the American public? I do.
The battle didn't end when the FISA bill passed. The next step is the bipartisan August 8th money bomb. I've pledged. Please consider pledging too, gentle readers. Even if you only give five bucks, you're voting in a way that demonstrably matters in this system. A million of us can give those rich donors a run for their money.
Greenwald explains
Conveying to Democrats that you will support all of them no matter what they do, no matter how egregiously they trample on your values, only ensures that they will ignore your political priorities and values even more.I was going to give this money to the Obama campaign, but I think it will do so much more good to give it to the August 8 effort.
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