Posted by
The Very Sane Woman Who Points Out the Obvious on Friday, June 20, 2008 7:15:08 PM
What we've been reading in the papers as a "compromise" bill that gives the executive unlimited power to spy on Americans is no compromise, but a capitulation, a shameless weak kneed defeat to our civil liberties. This is the bill that grants, after the fact, immunity to the telecommunications companies for their complicity in the Bush White House breaking the law.
To those who use the fear mongering of terrorism as a rationale for this legislation I remind them of what Benjamin Franklin said: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."