It is safe to assume the current Democrats and incoming Democrats will not do much to undo Bush's damage to the constitution without some serious poking and prodding. Hopefully the Ron Paul Republicans, our friends on this issue, will help them along a bit.
But I think we need to do everything we can to strategize and keep people informed about abuses to our civil liberties and about attempts to roll back the damage done to them during the last 8 years.
To help this effort along I started a Civil Liberties Google Group. Our brief agenda and link is below. Please join.
This agenda is open for discussion. Please post ideas in the comments; sign up and help us strategize!
Possible goals would be:
A) To help focus the DKos community more on civil liberties and diaries following this issue
B) To begin formulating a netroots strategy to pressure lawmakers in 09 to care about this issue.
C) To discuss ways to raise general awareness in people's mind. We don't have an Al Gore or a power-point presentation for civil liberties at the moment, and we must find other ways to galvanize the public.
D) Work with other groups like Strange Bedfellows, GetFisaRight, the ACLU, EFF, People's Campaign for the Constitution, and the American Freedom Campaign.
Again this agenda is a rough and was cooked up on the spot.
It is certainly open to debate as people join.
DailyKos Civil Liberties Google Group