Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move

ya really notes a blog posting up at Wired reporting that foes of the Telecom Amnesty Bill have mounted a campaign on Barack Obama's own website. Though the group was created only days ago, on June 25, it has grown to be the fifth largest among 7,000 such groups, just short of Women for Obama. Although it is widely known that Obama changed his stance from opposing telecom immunity to supporting it, many have not given up hope of getting him to switch once again. Meanwhile, left-leaning bloggers and libertarian activists have joined forces to raise $325,000 in the fight against the legislation. "Their Blue America PAC is already targeting House Democrats who voted for the bill, including placing a full-page ad in the Washington Post [an image appears in the Wired story] slamming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who claimed credit for creating the so-called compromise bill. The coalition plans to follow-up with a Ron Paul-style money bomb, which will be used to target key Senators..."

Comments

This guy has a point.

[plasmacutter]

I agree with this guy!

He has the capacity to actually demand change, and the political clout and media presence to shame these people who think cowing to a fundamentally unreasonable demand like our fourth amendment rights is "centerist" into standing up for americans on both sides of the aisle.

He didn't, and given the words on his site "i'm asking you to believe", It's an even greater insult.

Thanks to this man I will never believe again, and I will vote republican across the board, even as a staunch progressive libertarian, until the democrats wake from their sleep.

Re:He is repeating inflated security concerns

[sm62704]

Sad, I thought that he was brighter than that.

It's not a question of intelligence, it's a question of honesty. He's a Chicago politician; there are no honest Chicago politicians. Here in Illinois the last Democrat governor we had that was defeated by a Republican went to prison, and the last Republican governor we had that was defeated by a Democrat went to prison. The Resko scandal looks like Governor BlaBlaBitch will likely be George Ryan's cellmate.

Obama (as well as a lot of Republicans) has ties to Resko.

Re:Logo for the summary is misleading.

[dreamchaser]

It's the Democrat party, not the Democratic party, but that's a common mistake people make. Ironic that the party that claims to champion Democracy relies on party elders to choose their Presidential Candidate (Superdelegates).

Re:Barack Obama

[monxrtr]

The government can pass it's budget, and then divide that budget by the number of taxpayers so that everyone pays their equal share. If you can't afford your equal share of the costs of government, then you can prove that by hiring your own attorneys (or go pro se) and demonstrating that case to the appropriate authorities by violating your own privacy rights. We'll call it the Alternative Minimum Violation of Privacy Tax Act.

If the government has a right to exist by relying on compulsory taxation, then surely the government has a compulsory right to compel labor for slackers (how else could the government exist if everyone went on Strike at the same time!). The world needs ditch diggers and virus immunization (and biological warfare) test subjects too! Not to mention front line soldiers for various Wars (and the Soviet heroes of leftists swore by the value of live target practice).

Ahahah. I just love freaking out leftists by giving them mirrors as presents.