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Hmmm. Let's see about 20% of Congress is female, roughly 15% is non-Caucasian. The only one I can recall claiming to be "poor" was Joe Biden, but that's another story.

This is just a horrible, horrible idea. And once the government gets a hold of your DNA:

* You will have no idea what it is used for, by whom, nor how often
* You will never really be able to get that data removed
* You will be put in a position to have to prove innocence instead of being assumed innocent
* You are giving up yet more control over your life and privacy to the government
* The data WILL be used to make assumptions about you
* Your DNA data WILL be unreasonably searched, every time a search is done, and without probable cause
* The data WILL be shared with other agencies- state and fed
* The data WILL be leaked in one way or another
* The data WILL be used to also implicate others in your family with "close" DNA profiles

There are lots of other ramifications, these are just the ones that pop into my mind immediately. Perhaps it is time to Email/Fax/Call your Senator and tell them what you think before the House gets its way... http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

I would LOVE to buy those cars here in the US. Thing is, they're not available here. My plan is to wait until they are, so if Toyota wants to sell me a car, they better offer a diesel one.

Go here:

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

or here:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/

Write up a letter, and send it to your:

*-> President
*-> 2 Senators
*-> 1 Representative in Congress ("House")
*-> Governor
*-> 1-3 State Legislators

Tell them that you want a diesel car, and that they should be legal to sell in all 50 states.

Toyota is NOT ignoring the market. The market is just too expensive, confusing, and arbitrary for them to bother with just yet.

Hot News is really really bad law. Why can't we call our congressmen and tell them that this Quasi property right in Hot News is really bad for America. Isn't it strange that it's only really allowed in NY? http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt Use that Link, find your Congressional Rep, Call Them and tell them that something needs to be done and that this is really bad.

Back when they were pursuing the Broadcast Flag unfunded mandate, I had my objection hand delivered for a fee by http://www.congress.org/

I got a nice letter back explaining why I was all wrong and the broadcast flag was the greatest thing since sliced peaches, but at least they got my letter.

you'll hop over to the vote tally page and
see which list your representative is on. If you
disagree with their vote, contact them and let them know they fucked up.

Interestingly enough, neither Obama nor Hillary bothered to vote on this back in February.

The best we can hope for now is that maybe the Supreme Court will overturn it as unconstitutional.

You can find your representative here, and your congressman here.

Let's flood every link in this post with /. traffic. Then, let's write our Congressmen, and maybe some Supreme Court Justices.

Maybe, just maybe, that might get somebody's attention. If not, at least then they will know we are watching.

And you can know that you did something, even if it is a bit late

Call Barack Obama and urge him to make a public statement reiterating his opposition to telco amnesty. His opposition could kill this deal: Phone (202) 224-2854, Fax (202) 228-4260

Call Steny Hoyer and tell him this is a bad deal: Phone (202) 225-4131, Fax (202) 225-4300

Call Nancy Pelosi and urge her to pull the bill from the House schedule: Phone (202) 225-4965, Fax (202) 225-8259

Call your representative and tell them to vote no on the FISA rewrite tomorrow.

You can get bills that have been presented from thomas.loc.gov

or http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/?billnum=H.RES.1258&congress=110&size=full

In America's present situation, I can't think of an easier way to spread the word about bills than on the net. One would think that the MEDIA should do us a favor and report what is going on. That is what they are supposed to do.

But all joking aside, in politics, you won't be handed what you want. You have to work for it. If Americans want their civil rights or their income taxes back, they will have to use their voting power while they still have it.

What You Need To Do Now:

If you are a US citizen, visit Congress.org and enter your zip code in the Search box to find out who your Representative and Senators are. Then write them a letter urging them to uphold the House's version of the bill in the conference committee.

Don't bother with email; if you can't write a letter, call them on the phone.

Emphasize the importance of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Urge them not to compromise, if the President does veto the final bill. It would be much better not to pass a bill at all than to allow this travesty of justice to continue.

My letter is going to point out that all the telcos knew they were breaking the law when they committed their crimes. Such criminal acts should be treated as such. IMHO, there shouldn't need to be civil lawsuits filed by those who were spied upon; all of the telco employees involved, as well as all the government officials involved, should be put in prison for a good long time.

You can't prosecute a sitting president, but what you can do is impeach him, and that's what should happen to Bush.

So, apparently my original post dealt with something called the "Protect America Act", which is different than the ongoing immunity for the telecoms due to illegal wiretapping. But it turns out that the "Protect America Act" is related (in the sense that it deals with the power of government to spy on people without court authority) and relevant (because they are currently talking about it in Congress to get it extended).

Fact Sheet: The Protect America Act of 2007
Dateline: August 7, 2007

This Act of Congress made it legal to wiretap lines OUTSIDE of the US.

Original vote of Aug 4, 2007

A recent vote extended the Protect America Act (originally intended to expire on Feb 1, 2008) to be good until the end of this current week.

So, apparently my original post dealt with something called the "Protect America Act", which is different than the ongoing immunity for the telecoms due to illegal wiretapping. But it turns out that the "Protect America Act" is related (in the sense that it deals with the power of government to spy on people without court authority) and relevant (because they are currently talking about it in Congress to get it extended).

Fact Sheet: The Protect America Act of 2007
Dateline: August 7, 2007

This Act of Congress made it legal to wiretap lines OUTSIDE of the US.

Original vote of Aug 4, 2007

A recent vote extended the Protect America Act (originally intended to expire on Feb 1, 2008) to be good until the end of this current week.

House
Senate

I don't get it. Slashdot seems like great group of thinkers, a strong percentage of whom share a pro-science, pro freedom of speech and habeas corpus, and "global warming is real and we should start doing something" agenda (all anti-bush). But over the last 7 years, as a group, you seem to rant and make jokes, but very few say they're doing anything about it. Cmon, here's some simple petitions that take a freakin minute to fill out with google auto-form.

How many Slashdotters are there anyway? You really think we couldn't make a difference if everyone contributed 5 min to call their reps?

I was finishing my EE degree in 2000, and noticed in EETimes that Gore's responses to their questions sounded OK, but Bush's were non-existent! The biggest engineering periodical in the country, while EE/CS people were leading the nation's longest period of economic prosperity since just after WWII (even minus the bubble, we were leading the world in increasing productivity, which does make America more successful relative the world). Easy no-brainer right? Yeah, I voted Gore, but to my surprise, none of my nerd friends did! Why? "Oh, my vote wont mean anything anyway" Cmon. I bet Floridians thought the same way. If every slashdotter spent 5min a day bothering our congressman, or spreading a little word, or donating a few dollars, I'm sure we could have impeached the ahole after he lied to us to start Vietnam II. I dont care if he wins the war this year - he could have avoided it, raised CAFE and just stop buying gas from impotent Saddam. Would have saved (hundreds of?) thousands of lives, global goodwill, and trillions of dollars of debt (which coincidentally is part of the reason Bush I's economy was shaky when handing it off to Clinton, and now coincidentally our economy is shaky again, hmmmm).

Oh, here's a fun comparison Nixon to Bush

I don't get it. Slashdot seems like great group of thinkers, a strong percentage of whom share a pro-science, pro freedom of speech and habeas corpus, and "global warming is real and we should start doing something" agenda (all anti-bush). But over the last 7 years, as a group, you seem to rant and make jokes, but very few say they're doing anything about it. Cmon, here's some simple petitions that take a freakin minute to fill out with google auto-form.

How many Slashdotters are there anyway? You really think we couldn't make a difference if everyone contributed 5 min to call their reps?

I was finishing my EE degree in 2000, and noticed in EETimes that Gore's responses to their questions sounded OK, but Bush's were non-existent! The biggest engineering periodical in the country, while EE/CS people were leading the nation's longest period of economic prosperity since just after WWII (even minus the bubble, we were leading the world in increasing productivity, which does make America more successful relative the world). Easy no-brainer right? Yeah, I voted Gore, but to my surprise, none of my nerd friends did! Why? "Oh, my vote wont mean anything anyway" Cmon. I bet Floridians thought the same way. If every slashdotter spent 5min a day bothering our congressman, or spreading a little word, or donating a few dollars, I'm sure we could have impeached the ahole after he lied to us to start Vietnam II. I dont care if he wins the war this year - he could have avoided it, raised CAFE and just stop buying gas from impotent Saddam. Would have saved (hundreds of?) thousands of lives, global goodwill, and trillions of dollars of debt (which coincidentally is part of the reason Bush I's economy was shaky when handing it off to Clinton, and now coincidentally our economy is shaky again, hmmmm).

I understand here that "due process of law" is actually being changed to make this legal

What with the additional costs of sending humans anywhere, doesn't it make sense that an already-strapped NASA would pursue human-free missions to stretch its limited budget? I mean, I'm all for pumping up the public view of space exploration, but that problem lies more in making the public aware than in the nature of the missions themselves. Seeing a robot plant an American flag on Mars could be equally awe-inspiring, if widely televised.

The members of Congress were duly elected by the general populace of the United States; why NASA should attempt to ignore Congressional opinion is beyond me. If you happen to live in the U.S. and are upset about the situation (one way or the other), I urge you to contact your representative legislator(s) directly.

The Democrats are in control of the Senate and House. They are the ones that set the day-to-day agenda, have majorities on subcommittees and can block voting on bills. The Republicans can only block a vote by filibustering. Read the following articles and you will see exactly why I blame the Democrats for blocking the bill: Because the Democrats are blocking the bill. It isn't up for debate; it is a verifiable fact.

http://www.user-groups.net/safenet/internet_tax.html [user-groups.net] http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/014895.php [captainsquartersblog.com] http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002605139.html [cq.com] http://www.congress.org/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=10412161 [congress.org]

http://www.user-groups.net/safenet/internet_tax.html http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/014895.php http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002605139.html http://www.congress.org/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=10412161 Even if you RTFA you can tell it's the Democrats that are blocking. 'The Senate, which must act next on the legislation, has "in many ways made it clear that a permanent moratorium would be dead on arrival,"' The Democrats hold the House and the Senate.

Here's a nice form-letter, if you're not in a creative mood.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/? alertid=9461656&content_dir=ua_congressorg&mailid= custom

Here's an easy way to paste a letter into a form and e-mail Congress about it.

If you're not sure who your congress critters are or how to contact them, go to congress.org and type in your zip code. Remember that paper letters count for more points than email and reasoned arguments count more than rants. Note that the same site has a Soapbox where you can urge your fellow citizens to get involved as well.

If you're not sure who your congress critters are or how to contact them, go to congress.org and type in your zip code. Remember that paper letters count for more points than email and reasoned arguments count more than rants. Note that the same site has a Soapbox where you can urge your fellow citizens to get involved as well.

this law doesn't just affect over the air radio stations, but all streaming web casts. this is a bad deal, and it is supposed to be applied retro actively to 2006 (which will basically put all streaming radio stations out of business).

you can write your congressman or representative here.

for more info on how this will affect streaming radio, check out www.SaveOurInternetRadio.com. i found out about this through soma fm's news section (soma fm is an internet radio station i listen to, i am not affiliated with them)

It's nice to see that people care about this issue as it is fairly significant. Now let's make sure that our voice is heard by pestering those who represent us in Congress. The bill the article talks about is H.R. 977. It is currently in the hands of the Committee on the Judiciary. Finally, go to Congress.org, find out who your representatives are, and let them know your concerns with regards to this bill.

I like the premise, but I think the metaphor is wrong: there is no actual debt, and in now way does being in prison function as repayment. Aside from other philosophical issues around the meaning of justice, individuals that demonstrate that they are a danger to society must be segregated from society at least until (arguably, only until) they are no longer a danger to society. The idea that someone presents such a danger that they need to be tracked suggests they are too dangerous to be "out." The theoretical streaker is unlikely to present any danger to society, whereas an unrepentant serial rapist with multiple prior convictions probably shouldn't be let out again, or at least until there's some plausible developments in psychiatry. But the same holds true for violent criminals, so clearly sex crimes are singled out solely for their prurient interest, by providing an opportunity to gratuitously describe sex in an offensive way that winds up voters but is without any political or legislative merit, which sounds a lot like a sex crime itself to me...

On balance though, we should be grateful for Lawrence & garner v. State of Texas. It would be a great help to pass a constitutional amendment barring laws that dictate the private behavior of consenting adults. Ask your legislators.

As the "Won't somebody please think of the children" subject alludes, the Simpsons have effectively commented on bogeyman politics, in particular with the bear patrol episode. It's just transparent pandering, creating a false fear and exploiting it; and all the better that the subject be indefensible, though simply defenseless will also work when all the good ones are taken. Sex criminals will always be an easy target, but once that bandwagon has left the station (again), it's time to attack immigrants (poor Groundskeeper Willie), or Albania, or homosexuals, or whatever.

The best thing about this sort of moralist pandering and posturing is that politicians are just as morally complex as everyone else and their utter humiliation is a nice reward for the harm they do, so we should all thank Limbaugh, Haggard, Barnes, Bakker, etc for the joy they've given us.

We already have a series of escalating revolutions built into our government. Elections and impeachment.

In a couple of weeks, on TUE November 7, 2006, you can go to the polls to fire your Representative in the House. A good first move, especially if they're Republican, because the House is supposed to stop the president from abuses. Through oversight in committees overseeing all the president's executive actions and agencies. Through hearings, to which Congress can legally force people to appear and explain their actions, facing penalties for lying like "contempt of Congress", "making a false statement", and the usual perjury and other penalties for lying. Republicans in the House have failed to oversee Bush's actions, instead just keeping each other reelected and sending $TRILLIONS each year to their favorite bribers^Wsponsors.

The House is also not supposed to send laws to Bush that misrepresent their constituents, like laws encouraging martial law or destroying posse comitatus, etc. The Republican House has instead sent these laws to Bush, secretly or just quietly.

You'll probably have a chance to fire one of your senators, too, that Tuesday. Odds are they're a Republican, and have worked together with the Republican House to keep the Republican government, headed by Bush, rolling in dollars, without accountability, while he moves us further from freedom and closer to tyranny. These elections are our version of regularly scheduled revolutions, so no one gets hurt, but change is part of the programme.

But the House is even more important. Because the House, representing the people, has the responsiblity to impeach a president out of control. Especially a criminal president. Impeachment is like indictment for civilians: it's the formal accusation of specific charges against the president, and beginning of a trial in the Senate. Actual conviction in the Senate might not happen, or take too long, but impeachment itself, once begun, is a strong way to stop presidents like Bush from doing anything more. Meanwhile, Congress can pass and repeal bad laws to fix what the president has done. If the president persists, conviction in the Senate is even more likely to be prompt. Unless Republicans really do buy into Bush's gang, and rush to do more damage while their boy is still running things. Most Americans want Congress to impeach Bush.

We all want a revolution. The last few revolutions have been nonstarters, in 2004, 2002, and 2000 - the bad guys won. It's probably time for industrial-strength revolution, impeachment, because the regular revolutions, elections, aren't enough. We'll have the regular revolution first, then see how much we can fix without lowering the boom on Bush. But since he's hell-bent on tyranny, we'll probably have to impeach him, too.

Not a minute too soon.

I absolutely agree. Truth is, though, this is the case with nearly everybody.

The last time I got pulled over I disagreed with the officer, politely, calling him "sir" -- as he did me -- and never once admitted guilt or conceded that what he belived he saw was an infraction. He wrote me a ticket, decided I needed a lecture, and sent me on my way. The solicitor's office, after a year, decided not to persue the case. He did his job, citing me for what he perceived as dangerous driving, and I did mine, maintaining my innocence all the way down the line.

Getting attention from the police is stressful and an officer must be fully prepared for someone to react inappropriately.

As (yet another) firsthand anecdote, I had to call the police to my house twice this evening. The first time, I had come home from work and a campaign sign was missing from my yard ('cause guess which looney's district I live in?) So I called the police and asked them to please come by only if they had nothing better to do. When an officer showed up, he told me that where I had the sign was on city right-of-way, and that it probably got removed by Code Enforcement. Oh well. I thanked him for his time and we got on with our respective evenings.

An hour later I heard two quick gunshots from the apartments next door. The apartments are on the side of the house my son's crib is on. After I moved my son to another room, I called 911 and the same officer was back in an absolute flash. He asked me some brisk questions, sent me back inside and left in another flash.

No resolution yet. But no further gunshots, either.

For all the disagreements I've had with the police over my driving habits and certain other, oh, let's call them hobbies, I have to respect that they're doing a job that I can't comprehend, and that they never know if one of their "customers" is quite literally going to kill them because they have two priors and a gram of coke.

Feh. It's been a long day and I've run out of things to say. Not all cops are bad. I guess I live in a different part of the country, because for all the cops I saw holding my license up to the dome light so they could see how many staple holes there were through it, I can think of plenty more who are single moms trying to make the world safe for their boy, or who've just seen one too many pickup trucks careening down their own street.

All or nothin' baby, pick a side and write your government reps http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ cuz they don't care what you post here!

You don't have to buy something from the pop up ad. There exists a phenomena most marketers are aware of, that when you have several brands of a product to choose from, most people narrow their choice down to a grouping of 2-4, usually by "hunch" or "intuition", before making any drill down comparisons. It's a compromise of search breadth vs search depth. The pop up's main goal is to preprogram their brand as one of your intuitive choices - if you happen to click and purchase directly then that's an added bonus.

As for stopping the local infection version of the pop up - write a letter to your congressman. Tell them that instead of worrying whether or not gays can be gay, or a dissident can burn a flag in protest of his governments actions, maybe they could write a quick law that makes it illegal to install software on another machine without the owner's explicit consent. Then the websites that distribute this shit will have fines to pay, sucking the profit right out of the whole scheme.

(Oh noes, a spammer might lose his job!)

Here's an interesting website, not sure if they read the letters sent but at least it's a start:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

• Kevin J. Martin Chairman (202) 418-1000 Kevin.Martin@fcc.gov
• Michael J. Copps Commissioner (202) 418-2000 Michael.Copps@fcc.gov
• Jonathan S. Adelstein Commissioner (202) 418-2300 Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov
• Deborah Taylor Tate Commissioner (202) 418-2500 Deborah.Tate@fcc.gov

The problem here lies with the application of Gramm-Leach-Bliley. The regulation merely requires financial institutions to apply reasonable protections to the customers information. Unfortunately for most consumers, this bar lis lower than one would hope. The application of GLB, and most other federal regulations does not adequately protect the individual. This is why people should ensure they communication with the congressional representatives to get privacy laws with teeth in place.

Tragically, the privacy laws that are currently being evaluated at the federal level water down the requirements of many state laws. For example, California's SB-1386 requires a company to report to you that you information may have been inappropriately disclosed. However, the proposed federal legislation requires companies to only disclose this to you if they believe you are at risk from this exposure. It is easy for a company to say they do not think a disclosure of your information would harm you. If you do expereince ID theft, you wouldn't know what company was the source, so you would not have the ability to require the offending company to disclose the information exposure.

The upshot is...You MUST get involved in this. There are very high-paid lobbyists who want this lower level of protection for your private information. Ensure your congressional representative knows you want a law with real teeth. You can find who is your rep at: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

Complain to the FCC here and then write your Congressional representatives (figure out who your representatives are here. If you cant take the time to figure out how to do this properly, then you must not care that much.

Geeze, I can't believe I just read through this entire thread and haven't seen a single mention of what people (at least those who are US citizens) can actually do about this. Go here:

http://www.congress.org/

Type in your zip code. Look at the list of your elected officials. Call them or send them a paper letter (even better if you include a donation in it). I did it, and you can too. Believe it or not, congresspeople actually listen to their constituents.

That said, I hope in the future more and more science-related projects get handled by private groups, like the Planetary Society's Cosmos 1 launch of the first solar sail spacecraft next month. That way, instead of whining to congresscritters about using other people's money for projects we care about, we can just give the money ourselves. I'm sure the actual Voyager space program would be able to raise at least as much money as the Enterprise television show.

Type "congress.org" into your browser, enter you zip, and call and email you senators telling them your feelings on this! If half the people that complained about laws in YRO communicated directly with their representatives, that would be a pretty big force against anti-privacy legislation.
So stop reading this. Go write...Go!

I propose a new Constitutional Amendment, the 28th Amendment to the American Constitution:

For the crime of treason, for selling out to the enemy of the people, i.e., selling out his high governmental office to corporate power, Secretary of Commerce Don Evans shall be hanged by his neck in a public location until he is dead.

Write your Congressperson today in support of my proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America! Do your proud and patriotic duty as an America citizen! The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants!

Remember the recent fiasco about the National Weather Service wanting to give us access to our data, and people like Accuweather wanting to stop them? We screamed, and they listened.

Granted, it was under a completely different set of circumstances. The govt. agency *wanted* to give us the data, it was a relatively minor threat of us losing access to it, etc. However, the point remains that we still live in a democracy. If enough people make enough noise, some politician is bound to at least raise a minor stink about it, if for no other reason than to pander to some people for some votes.

So, having said that, write to your congressman and request that the data you paid for, and deserve to have, be made available to you.

SEC. 204. DESIGNATION AND TRAINING OF AGENTS IN COMPUTER HACKING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNITS.

(a) Designation of Agents in CHIPs Units- The Attorney General shall ensure that any unit in the Department of Justice responsible for investigating computer hacking or responsible for investigating intellectual property crimes is assigned at least one agent to support such unit for the purpose of investigating crimes relating to the theft of intellectual property.

(b) Training- The Attorney General shall ensure that each agent assigned under subsection (a) has received training in the investigation and enforcement of intellectual property crimes.

Alright, government sponsored hacking!

or here

The state of Pennsylvania site was nice enough to include not only the location of the polls for my district, and the hours they would be open, but they also told me I was going to encounter Sequoia electronic voting machines.

The state of Ohio's link doesn't appear to contain that information, unfortunately.

is whether these Bush relatives benefited from Bush's great-grandfather the Nazi Traitor. All that Nazi money helped make the Bushes that much richer.

You can see quite a bit of the Nazi showing through in Bush, what with the PATRIOT act, disappearing "enemy combatants" without any legal standing whatsoever, ignoring the international treaties of the Geneva Convention, invading another country without just cause, calling anyone who questions the administration a traitor... oooh, I'm gettin' sick.

Now what I want you to do is go to www.congress.org and enter your zip code in the box under where it says "Write Elected Officials". It will show President Bush, your two Senators, and your House Representative.

Click the "info" link below each of your Senator's names to get their phone number and call it. When someone answers, politely give your name, and say you're calling because you want the senator to oppose the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2004.

I did this just now, calling the offices of Senators Snowe and Collins from Maine. The staffers who answered asked me to repeat the name of the bill slowly so they could write it down, and then asked for my address.

I live in Canada, but am a Maine voter (where I lived before I moved). I explained that to them before giving them my address here in Canada. Just to point out you still can call your Senator if you live in a foreign country.

In a week or two they'll send you a reply letter on Senate stationery, suitable for framing.

Now of course, you have to consider whether you believe what the candidates have to say about the issues, but that's another topic :-)

Gee, would you rather the information came from Democratic Congressman? Would that make it any more relevant? How about if the same information came from the award-winning journalist's own web site? Would that make it "more true"?

Somehow I suspect that your gripe about the information isn't with the source of the information, it is instead the facts cited in the information.

Guess what! You do have to worry about a draft. There are a pair of bills (HR 163 and S 89) in congress now, which would require service from all young persons (18-26).

The bills are "languishing in committee" and appear unlikely to pass (and their existence has been used to stir up a lot of political noise by folks willing to exaggerate the facts), but they do exist, and if you want to express your opinion about them, now is the time..

http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr163.html
http://www.house.gov/stark/documents/108th/univdra ftstate.html
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/? billnum=H.R.163&congress=108&size=full

-Brian

It's ridiculous to blame the companies for actions that users are taking. It's like blaming the phone company for people who use the telephone for illegal activities. Definitely time to make sure our voices are heard by the politicians. Be sure to contact your congressman and senators. Also your local politicians. No point in being silent about this kind of foolishness.

I can tell you that I most certainly will NOT be reelecting Debbie Stabenow this comming election, who is co-sponsoring INDUCE. Take a look at the list of INDUCE's Co-sponsors to see if there's anyone you're going to help vote out this fall in YOUR state.

repeal the "patriot" act!

write your rep
Contact your senator
Letters to leaders

Please help get this worthless legislation off the lawbooks. Throwing legal protections out the window may be handy at the moment, but I guarentee that it will bite you or someone you care about in the ass sooner or later. As Ben Franklin said: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

curl -O -f "http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.c gi?position=all&page=H53[48-74]&dbname=2004_record "

Do you mind if I use the text of your post in a letter I am writing to the president, Halliburton^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hvice president and my congress men and women?