July 01, 2008
Shriveling Hope
There's a new term floating around out there, which we're sure you would never want applied to you-- It is: "the low information voter"
In order to avoid becoming one, you had best read about the FISA legislation immediately -- Glenn Greenwald is a good place to start, or, if you are unable to concentrate on the written word Keith Olbermann, has made a video for your perusal.
Finished? Now send Barack an email before Monday to let him know how betrayed you feel by his "centrist" switch supporting immunity to all those telecommunications companies that let George W. Bush and god knows who else read your email and listen to your phone calls to their hearts content. It doesn't matter whether you were sharing state secrets, simple beliefs about preserving the environment can get you on a list somewhere that you simply do not want to be on these days.
Photo note: Curling up into something unrecognizable - a metaphorophoto
Addendum: how to get off a government watch list
Posted by Dakota at July 1, 2008 06:43 PM