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Hat tip: Pretend Pundit Via ACLU Website:

Responding to reports that phone companies are turning over private
details about Americans? telephone calls to the National Security Agency, the American
Civil Liberties Union today launched a nationwide initiative to end illegal government
spying.

ACLU affiliates in 20 states today filed complaints with Public Utility Commissions
or sent letters to state Attorneys General and other officials demanding investigations
into whether local telecommunications companies allowed the NSA to spy on their
customers.

?We cannot sit by while the government and the phone companies collude in this massive,
illegal and fundamentally unAmerican invasion of our privacy,? said ACLU Executive
Director Anthony D. Romero. ?And unfortunately, we cannot wait for Congress to
act. The ACLU is mobilizing its members and supporters nationwide to demand investigations
into this shocking breach of trust. And we are asking the FCC to use its authority
to uncover the facts about how far the president’s illegal spying has gone. The
American people want answers.?

True to form, Romero has twisted the facts of this case around to scare the unsuspecting
liberal minded, apathetic imbecile who supports him and his anti-American organization.
To this point, each and every legal scholar who has looked at the program has agreed
that no laws have been broken.

Congressional leaders, including Dick “the dick with the turban” Durban
have come out in favor of changing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to
cover this type of operation. Each one has touted the benefits and necessities of
this program for the national security of the United States and its people.

Democrats are approaching this from the oversight angle. That if the President
was given authority to conduct this operation in just the same manner that it already
has been, it would provide some oversight with teeth under which the President is
less likely to abuse the power.

Republicans are approaching this from the stand point that the President needs this
program and having it written into FISA would provide him with the tools to conduct
it.

I agree with both actually. No matter who is in power, it is always possible for
power to be abused. But as both parties have recognized the need for the program
and both have expressed the need for it to continue, what is the ACLU’s beef?

I’ll tell you what their beef is. They are the perpetual fly in the ointment.
If they aren’t causing trouble over each and every thing the federal government
does, they feel as though they aren’t doing anything at all. After all, if they
agreed with the stance the government takes, their significance would be non-existent.

This is a fund raising campaign. If they make a big enough stink about this, the
apathetic morons will give them more money. If by chance they prevail in any one
of these many lawsuits that they are planning, then they can circumvent the legislative
process and again, they make money off the government.

The ACLU is listed as a non-profit organization. They claim to be non-partisan.
But it seems awfully odd that the only members of Congress that are members of the
ACLU are Democrats and that the ACLU publicly opposes any proposal sponsored by
Republicans. And it seems awfully odd that each time they win a case, they take
a larger cut of the settlement than their clients.

The ACLU feeds of the weak minded. They rely on the apathetic uniformed morons
who fill out the little form and send it in with their $25 each year to get their
little card in the mail so that they can go around saying that they are “card
carrying members of the ACLU”. If these people had half the intelligence that
they claim to have, they would look into the dealings of the ACLU and come to the
same conclusions that we have. That their actual goal is destruction of the United
States as we know it.

President Bush and other administration officials have neither
confirmed nor denied a USA Today report that the NSA is collecting the calling records
of ordinary Americans in its effort to detect the plans of al-Qaida and other terrorist
organizations.

Bush has said the administration’s anti-terror surveillance programs are legal and
constitutional.

The ACLU was planning to file actions with state utility commissions in Arizona,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
Other states were expected to be added later. target=”_blank”>Source

So the ACLU will sue these companies for helping our government to detect terrorists?
All the while, the ACLU has a target=”_blank”>massive database of its own members,
their financial information, and much more private details than the NSA could ever
hope for.

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