With the collective power of the blogosphere, we won a cloture vote on the Senate's FISABOHICA bill yesterday.
We have the momentum. Maybe.
However, since Reid insisted on bringing the Intelligence Committee bill to the floor, it is likely we will not be able to prevail on amending it because there are several members of our party who will choose to destroy our Constitution rather than fight for the rights that thousands of Americans and the Founding Fathers died to preserve and protect.
It's sickening.
I say it's time to go on offense.
This week. Right now.
Here's an idea to hit the Constitution hating telcos right where where it hurts.
We know that Bush and the NSA are unlikely to appear before Congress, but what about all the telecoms and their employees?
Why are we not lobbying our friends in the House of Representatives to start holding hearings about the egregious allegations made in the EFF and other lawsuits against the telecoms?
I want to see these people hauled before the House committees and be made to testify or invoke their 5th Amendment rights. I want to see law professors opine about how these activities and the Senate bill are destroying our Constitution.
These hearings need to start NOW. They will bring attention to what Bush, the Congressional Republicans, and the Senate "Vichy Dems" are trying to do, and will shine the light on what is going on here.
While we're at it, I'd like to get some historians in front of these committees to answer a simple set of questions: does Al Qaeda represent a bigger existential threat to the United States than the 18,000+ nuclear warheads the Commies aimed at us for 40 years? We certainly didn't give up our liberty like this during the Cold War. Why are our Senators willing to give it away now?
They are either cowards or they have been bought. It's that simple.
This is a wholesale giveaway of our Constitutional liberty, and we need to go on offense here. Who's with me?
Any other ideas for effective activities in support of offense in this battle would be appreciated.