Glen Greenwald is launching a major new campaign to target Hoyer and other key members of Congress for their impending sell out to the Telcoms and Bushco. Read about it here.
In order to raise as much money as possible for this campaign — far more than the $85,000 raised (and still being spent) in Chris Carney’s district as a result of his support for warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty — we are working to create an alliance with numerous organizations and factions across the ideological spectrum which oppose civil liberties erosions, as well as with as many blogs as possible (modeled vaguely after the ideologically diverse alliance that has arisen in Britain in opposition to the sprawling and lawless surveillance state there).We hope to announce details about the participating individuals and groups very shortly, as well as the exact details of what we’re doing. But given the time pressures, it’s vital to be able to have as many resources as possible, as quickly as possible, for this campaign. The more money raised, the greater the disruptive impact will be.
For the moment, contributions can be made here. All the money raised will be spent exclusively on ad campaigns aimed at the short-term vulnerabilities of those in Congress responsible for delivering this indescribably tyrannical package of surveillance powers to the President and the accompanying corrupt gift to lawbreaking telecoms.
The bill is not a compromise. The final details are being worked out, but all indications are that many of its provisions are both unnecessary and a threat to the Bill of Rights. The White House and the Congressional Republicans who support the bill have two real aims. They want to undermine the power of the courts to review the legality of domestic spying programs. And they want to give a legal shield to the telecommunications companies that broke the law by helping Mr. Bush carry out his warrantless wiretapping operation.
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some of these congressional seats:
I hope this is just the beginning. They may want to throw their support behind the challenges to Pelosi’s seat, too.
It’s just so darn inconvenient when a poor congress critter’s just trying to supplement his income with donations from large corporations. And if a few Articles and Amendments of the Constitution have to be sacrificed, well, it’s for the greater good of Hoyer, his fellow republicans in Democrats’ clothing & of course for their BFF’s the GOP’ers. Bill of Rights? What a “quaint” concept.
All snarkiness aside, thanks Buhdy for spotlighting Greenwald’s campaign against hoyer the horrible.
as Al Wynn did to Donna Edwards.