Fear is still ruling our decisions. The concept of giving up liberty to protect our freedom continues. What will we have left after the dust settles? How bad will it get?
House approves foreign wiretap bill, 227-183
The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States. See the role call here.
Bush Signs Terrorism Law
President Bush on Sunday signed into law an expansion of the government's power to eavesdrop on foreign terror suspects without the need for warrants.
On August 5, President Bush signed S.1927, a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. The bill gives more authority to the National Security Agency and other agencies to monitor emails, phone calls, and other communications that are part of a foreign intelligence investigation.
Democrats Capitulate to President Bush as Congress Gives Government Broad New Powers to Conduct Warrantless Surveillance on American Citizens
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Remind your congressmen that several of our founding fathers have long ago weighed in on the dangers of valuing security over liberty, and of using war to override the separation of powers outlined in the U.S. Constitution.
The FISA court never refused any warrants; it was a rubber-stamp court. It was a bureaucratic step, but an important one. Its presence reminded us what was good about the United States of America. Without it...not so much.
Click here to make your voice heard if you oppose the expansion of Warrantless Wiretapping.
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King George W: James Madison's Nightmare
In 1795, James Madison wrote of war's far-reaching and corrosive effect on public liberty. He could well have been warning us about our own King George, just the sort of imperial president that Madison and other founders of our nation feared most.
Robert Scheer details how James Madison (as well as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson) predicted that America's new experiment in representative government could be threatened. George Bush is currently endangering the foundation of America by doing exactly what the founding fathers warned against: emphasizing security over liberty and getting bogged down in "foreign entanglements".
The view from Jemmy and Dolley Madison's west-facing Montpelier estate in Virginia.
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