Comments on: Alumni Report: Why the FISA Amendment Blows! http://coedmagazine.com/2008/02/13/alumni-report-why-the-fisa-amendment-blows/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:37:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rob http://coedmagazine.com/2008/02/13/alumni-report-why-the-fisa-amendment-blows/comment-page-1/#comment-5423 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:10:47 +0000 http://www.coedmagazine.com/news/5724#comment-5423 EXACTLY – and the sad part is that somehow they got a warrant for QWest to submit, with absolutely no legal foothold, they scared the company with threat that they would announce that QWest was "protecting terrorist activities."

]]> By: Mac G http://coedmagazine.com/2008/02/13/alumni-report-why-the-fisa-amendment-blows/comment-page-1/#comment-5424 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:02:29 +0000 http://www.coedmagazine.com/news/5724#comment-5424 Great Post about the current police state that we live in. QWest actually did not give their phone records over to the govt without a warrant because it violated the law. Qwest was later shut out of a big govt contract and their CEO was indicted on a different charge by the Feds.

The telecoms that did comply with the government were interested in protecting their lucrative government contracts, not being some great Patriots that some politicians have argued. Example, the govt stopped paying their phone bill and telecoms cut them off, surely not the behavior of "almighty patriots" looking to protect us from terrorists.

I wish American citizens could break the law because one branch of our government tells us it is all right and then the other branch sanctions are law breaking later by retroactively changing the law.

Bottom Line: The telecom lobby lined enough pockets of Senators with campaign money and they won.

We now live in a society where the onus is on Americans to prove to our government that we are acting legal and not on the government to prove that we are acting illegal.

Sounds like Russia?

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