California Governor to Ask for Broader Wiretaps

koganuts writes: "According to The Los Angeles Times, California governor Gray Davis '...is calling for expanded authority to wiretap Californians' phones and e-mail in the name of protecting against terrorism.' 'Nuff said."

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Welcome to Californa, please hand over your rights

[digitalmuse]

Well, am I the only one who's bowels clench at the sound of this? Does this mean that e-mails that get routed through California-based servers will be subject to this? What about California residents who have mail servers in different states... their mail 'originates' in the sunny fascist state of CA, but it doesn't get stored there. How about California residents who send e-mail while outside of their home state.
I can only hope that a massive influx of hard, direct questions to the office of the Governor of California - Gray Davis(governor@governor.ca.gov) that this is unacceptable to the people of his constituency.
The /. crowd is fairly militant and reactionary over these issues, but I for one am going to try and do a little more than normal about this. Time to draft an e-mail to all my family members who live in California and see if I can get a few of them to take action on this.
It would also be grand if someone could post a link to (or transcript of) the governor's State of the State speech tonight.
If anyone else is aware of grassroot groups that are actively and positively working on raising the public's awareness to this kind of knee-jerk violation of our rights, please post applicable links here, and see what we can do to keep this getting any worse.