Retired AT&T engineer Mark Klein has condemned the Senate’s Wednesday cloture vote on the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

The bill, if passed by final vote planned for July 8, would revise the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to retroactively grant immunity to customers’ civil lawsuits against telecommunications companies who participated in the National Security Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, on the condition that they can provide documentation that they were told ahead of time that their activities were legal.

Klein, in November 2007, urged Congress not to allow such immunity, having gone public with his story of a secret room in AT&T’s San Francisco switching center, which required NSA clearance to enter. All Internet traffic, he said, was being diverted to equipment in the room, as he discovered during his time maintaining optical splitters that handled data to and from AT&T customers.

“[My] thought was George Orwell’s 1984 and here I am forced to connect to the Big Brother machine,” Klein told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann in a November 2007 interview.

Documents Klein obtained, along with conversations he had with colleagues, suggested that 15 to 20 other sites such as this were in other offices across the country, ABC News reported. The documents, acquired by Wired.com, were submitted as part of a 2006 class action lawsuit, currently awaiting further action in the 9th Circuit US Appeals Court, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

“[Wednesday]’s vote by Congress effectively gives retroactive immunity to the telecom companies and endorses an all-powerful president,” Klein said. “It’s a Congressional coup against the Constitution.”

“This cynical deal is a Democratic exercise in deceit and cowardice,” he went on. “Congress has made the FISA law a dead letter–such a law is useless if the president can break it with impunity. Thus the Democrats have surreptitiously repudiated the main reform of the post-Watergate era and adopted Nixon’s line: ‘When the president does it that means that it is not illegal.’ This is the judicial logic of a dictatorship.”
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This is more proof that the so called two-party system is a sham - it’s nothing more than Psy-Op run by the elites! - and thus, sadly, whatever Ron Paul says is of no consequence.

@ Dr. Ron Paul: You must begin immediately to build a strong, viable resistance movement! Do NOT accept into the ranks of this new movement anyone from the “Anti-War” movement, until they have been properly vetted by a polygraph examination using state-of-the-art equipment and techniques!

There are many people who can be extremely valuable to this new revolution: Paul Craig Roberts, Sibel Edmonds, India Singh, Mark Cuban, Mike Ruppert, Jesse Ventura, SueAnn Arrigo,
most of the 9/11 truth movement, and many others.

You better get busy Dr. Paul…American Revolution v2.0 is a massive, but achievable, undertaking! The United States of America is already lost…it can be won back, but not without a great deal of bloodshed it can’t!

First, Paul DID NOT utter one peep in Congress on June 20, 2008. Not one word. Think I am wrong? Prove it! C-SPAN archives any remarks on either House Floor over 30 seconds in duration. Please to be proffering up a pointer to this speech.

Second, this Congressional Record was not even in the June 29, 2008 Congressional Daily Record. It was instead slipped into the extensions on June 24, 2008, and Paul titled it: “Speech of Hon. Ron Paul of Texas In The House Of Representatives Friday, June 20, 2008″. This is a common practise in the House of Representatives. Members are often given several days to enter and revise their remarks, but y’all claim that Paul is heads and shoulders above your average slimeball politician, yet he seems to be quite at ease playing bait and switch with his header tags, knowing damn well his idolaters won’t bother to to double-check and take him at his word.

Here the REAL citation for it:

Congressional Record: June 24, 2008 (Extensions) - Page E1325
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access DOCID:cr24jn08-15.

Third, the reason Paul just couldn’t stick around to defend the Constitution on June 20, 2008, was that he was scheduled to keynote in the big_sky, at the Montana State Republican Convention in Missoula. According to the town’s local paper, The Missoulian, the convention drew a whopping 470 people. Paul’s attendance for Roll Call Votes in the 110th Congress is very poor, and he has missed votes on bills which cover issues he claims are very dear to his core beliefs.

Politicians have lied, Politicians lie, and Politicians will lie. Ron Paul’s political career is now into its 5th decade. Ron Paul doesn’t walk on the water; he floats on the top, just like the rest of the scum.

Who are the sheeple now? Maybe you ought to reflect upon just who the hell is yanking on that chain attached to the ring in your noses, before you get pulled up and into the abattoir’s entrance.

Edward Bernays

Don’t miss the video clip here:

http://class-warfare.blogspot.com/2008/01/edward-bernays-assassin-of-democracy.html

The whole BBC series, “The Century of Self”, is also well worth watching.

Substitute Iran for Guatemala and what do you get?

The most interesting and meaningful poll would be to ask Americans if they are for or against trying to locate “Iran” on a map.

I suspect 97% would be strongly against.

“Despite President Bush’s perpetually abysmal approval ratings, it appears his increasingly hostile rhetoric against Iran has drummed up enough fear of a “nuclear holocaust” or a World War III that a majority of Americans are in favor of a US strike against the country aimed a curtailing its apparent nuclear ambitions, a new poll shows.

The Zogby International survey shows 52 percent of Americans would support a strike on Iran, while 53 percent expect President Bush to launch such an attack before the end of his second term. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is voters’ No. 1 choice to deal with Iran, with 21 percent saying they would like to see her take on Tehran from the White House. Republican Rudy Giuliani was voters’ second choice, with 15 percent.”

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bomb_Iran_majority_of_Americans_says_1030.html

An ABC News/Washington Post poll taken after the beginning of the war showed a 62% support for the war, lower than the 79% in favor at the beginning of the Persian Gulf War. [1]

[edit] April 2003
A poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News found that 72% of Americans supported the Iraq War, despite finding no evidence of chemical or biological weapons.[citation needed]

A poll made by CBS found that 60% of Americans said the Iraq War was worth the blood and cost even if no WMD are ever found.[citation needed]

[edit] May 2003
A Gallup poll made on behalf of CNN and the newspaper USA Today concluded that 79% of Americans thought the Iraq War was justified, with or without conclusive evidence of illegal weapons. 19% thought ”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_popular_opinion_on_invasion_of_Iraq

I want to find them.. and kill ‘em. Sounds disturbing, but alienating our rights for heavy power is even more disturbing.

“May they all burn in hell.”

According to Dante, the inner circle of Hell was indeed reserved for traitors and others who betrayed fiduciary trust. So someone is keeping a place warm for them. ;-)

[Boswell]