AT&T, Verizon and Bell South...

...turning over your telephone records to the National Security agency? The National Security Agency tapping phones in violation of the provisions of the FISA act? Google being pressured to turn over net browsing records to the feds? What is next?

What would you have said if someone had presented this to you as a hypothetical scenario 10 years ago? Talk about a paradigm shift.

Footnote: Good on Qwest Communications for not caving in to President Joe Isuzu's efforts (remember the car commercials with the guy with the cheesy smile saying "You have my word on it!") to end run the constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

If our mail is next, you can help! Start sending all your correspondence on either post cards or in open envelopes to help the government watch for mail from the "evil doers". If you seal your envelopes, you may soon be considered unpatriotic.

Osama has got to be laughing his ass off!

Comments

[Alain Jourdier]

Well said.