Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Will Your Senator Stand with Chris Dodd?

Sen Chris Dodd, yesterday, 6/24/08

"Mr. President: I rise—once again—to voice my strong opposition to the misguided FISA legislation before us today. I have strong reservations about the so-called improvements made to Title I. But more than that, this legislation includes provisions which would grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that apparently have violated the privacy and the trust of millions of Americans by participating in the president’s warrantless wiretapping program. If we pass this legislation, the Senate will ratify a domestic spying regime that has already concentrated far too much unaccountable power in the president’s hands and will place the telecommunications companies above the law. "

Read the rest of it. Or watch it by click on the photo.

Is your Senator going to stand up for the rule of law and against the institution of a system of government by an elected tyrant?

Or is your Senator going to cast a vote as an enemy of the Constitution?

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