I agree with Matthew, I voted for Obama, but I voted for him thinking he was familiar with the truth. The truth is the law, but not the law simply as it originates from the Constitution, but rather as it originates from The Declaration of Independence. At this time, another King George it appears is not interested in the preservation of our rights for whom our government's purpose is to serve us and not the coffers of a taxing and a non-representative body, who would use our people to perpetuate the power of those corporate heads through acquisition of another country's resources. What I have seen and read in our declaration speaks of a time-past that now reflects time-present, wherein for example, "Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured, within the short compass of [six] years only, to lay a foundation so broad and so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered and fixed in principles of freedom." Do we not also agree that as Thomas Jefferson outlined our rights and as our government should be so run and our military to be so confined as to be beholden to the people who it has been reported that: "All men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness…. When a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period and pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their security." Let these be among the discretions of our current king and his henchpersons and let these violations of our and international law serve to pass judgment on him as war criminal and as anti-American, who, in effect, acts as a traitor to our forefathers' intentions.

Remember one thing. There was one telecom company that told the government spys to 'go fly a kite.' They were attacked for it, and I note that those allegations have evaporated. Thank you Quest on behalf of all Americans.

So the new FISA bill keeps people from suing the telecom companies, but allows people to charge the companies with criminal charges. Well, criminal charges won't truly scare these companies from doing this again -- suing the pants off them will. We have to keep the civil charges in the bill in order for it to have any weight.