Obsiquous Dems kowtow to GOP Telecom lobby again

Posted on 21 June 2008. Tags: Democrats, Patriots Act, Surveillance Act

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ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE IS ONE MORE MOVE TOWARDS BIG BROTHER CONTROL

NEW YORK, June 21st, 2008, Rupee News: FISA was passed as a way to control the Nixonite eavesdropping of political opponents. It has now been demolished. In many ways, the Republicans are better than the Democrats. At least with the Republicans we know where they stand. The Democrats on the other hand regurgitate a lot of rubescent grandiloquence but in the end they vote the same as the Republicans, which re-enforces the age old adage “there’s not a dimes worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats”.

The obsequious servile Democrats that gave President Bush the blanket authority to wage perpetual mimetic war have once again prostrated themselves to the Telcom industry. The same sycophantic Democrats that abrogated the sanctity of Habeaus Corpus have once again recumbented to the commercial interests of lobbies. The same toadying Democrats that approved the Patriots Act which has entire paragraphs lifted from Nazi laws also ossified Rendition of prisoners to foreign lands. The same subservient Democrats funded Gitmo have once again kowtowed to the special interests in Congress. These acts which reduce the freedom bestowed upon us an an “inalienable right” by our glorious constitution.

The Patriot Act and its successor Patriot Act II was meant to nab OBL. It nabbed Govorner Spitzer and thousands od other innocent victims. The denouement of the liberties in the home of the free and the reduction of freedoms in the land of the brave are a dangerous trend towards Fascism where the ideas for internment as propogated by the likes of Michelle Malkin become mainstream.

In 1936, Orwell fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Out of this came, crucially, his strong antipathy to Stalinism and the enduring belief in Democratic Socialism that inspired Animal Farm (1945), a political fable (“all men are equal but some are more equal than others”) based on post-tsarist Russia. This was followed by Nineteen Eighty-Four itself, a powerful, disturbingly prescient allegorical novel that denounced Stalinist totalitarianism and has become the standard modern reference for opposition to statist control and oppression.

Shortly after it was published, Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950. Without him we would understand ourselves less and be less brave against tyrannies.The Times Online

The Democrats are long on rhetoric but when it comes to liberty or war they are beholden to the same lobbies that try to purchase our Congress.

A writer ceases to be iconoclastic and becomes iconic when he is subsumed into the fabric of the society that he criticises. In the case of George Orwell, his most powerful work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is cited not only by radical leftists and reformist liberals (his natural allies), but nostalgically and romantically by a Tory prime minister attempting to evoke an England secure in its traditional values and ironically by populist, raucously postmodern television shows such as Big Brother and Room 101. The Times Online

The House of Representatives easily approved a compromise bill setting new electronic surveillance rules that in effect shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits arising from the government’s post-Sept. 11 warrantless eavesdropping on phone and computer lines in this country. The bill, which was passed on a 293-129 vote, does more than just protect the telecoms. The update to the 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is an attempt to balance privacy rights with the government’s assertion that some wiretapping is necessary to protect the country against terrorist attacks in an era of fast-changing technologies.

President Bush praised the bill, saying, “It will help our intelligence professionals learn enemies’ plans for new attacks.”

The House’s passage of the FISA Amendment bill marks the beginning of the end to a months-long standoff between Democrats and Republicans about the rules for government wiretapping in the United States. The Senate was expected to pass the bill by a large margin, perhaps as soon as next week.